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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I participated in a judged sport and sometimes the judges at international meets didn't seem like the best because the organizers were bending over backwards to have international representation on the panel. Sometimes the judges were there because they were senior officials within a country, but not necessarily the best technically. It seems that gymnastics has tried to reduce the arbitrariness of scores, [b]but there must still be a fair amount of fuzziness in the execution score. [/b][/quote] The execution score is subjective, by definition. As to the difficulty scores, while most skills can be assessed objectively, leap/dance skills like the one in question in Jordan's routine are more open to subjective interpretation, especially when they are reviewed by the judges in real-time. That's why I find it annoying that people are claiming that the original judges missed one of her skills as if it was some egregious error. They didn't exactly miss her skill; they determined that she didn't meet the requirements. The Superior Jury disagreed and gave her credit, perhaps after reviewing the video. That is not proof of bias, incompetence, or any other major error on the part of the original judges.[/quote] The skill in question was something in Jordan’s routine that she almost never got credit for because she didn’t rotate all the way around in her leap. The judges didn’t give it to her in qualifications, or team finals either. One might argue they grew so used to not giving it to her they just automatically assumed she didn’t complete it rather than paying attention to what was actually happening in front of their eyes.I don’t think its egregious but I do find it annoying.[/quote]
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