My Last Word on China’s Olympics & Gymnastics + Writing Update
The entire nonsensical farce that they called Olympic Gymnastics can be summed up in two events. The women’s vault and uneven bars. Throughout the games, it was the same. Our girls wobble, they get hammered. China’s girls wobble and they win Gold. I heard a commentator last night - a noted expert - go through Cheng Fel’s vault routine. There were multiple faults leading up to her landing on her knees. If that had been one of the US athletes, she wouldn’t have scored a 12.0 - and the world knows it. There is absolutely no honor among the gymnastics judges. Let’s forget for a moment that He Kexin, who won the Uneven bars, is only fourteen, and they overlook this. In that event, it came down to .1 on something that is so obviously subjective and biased to decide a tie? Why is this the only sport you can’t have dual medalists in?
Here’s my actual point, though, and it’s beyond valid. If this was the first year for a new scoring system to be instituted - it was the Olympic committees duty - DUTY - not job - to find a team of experts that not only understood the new system, but that were competent to implement it. That is so obviously not the case that it makes me want to never watch gymnastics again. How they can sleep at night is beyond me. No argument on earth excuses the obvious bias of their decisions, unless their lives were threatened by the Chinese government, or they were paid off…and if that’s the case I hope the expressions on the faces of the champions they have dishonored stick with them day and night.
That girl He Kexin wasn’t even born when Nastia Liukin began training for this moment - her moment. Unbelievable to me that the Chinese could truly believe any honor or status is achieved by faking fireworks, swapping little girl singers, cheating in events or any of the rest of the shaky crap going on. If Zeus were watching, he’d smite the lot of them with thunderbolts for screwing up a time-honored tradition.
And for the record, if our girl had fallen on her knees in the vault, and then beaten the Chinese girl, I’d be just as upset. The judges are contemptible, the new system is a ridiculous farce, and there appears to be no one in charge willing or able to do anything about it. For me, it’s an outrage - to those girls who worked all their lives to reach that point, it’s a hideous disservice by people who are, in theory, honor bound to serve.
Last note - the boxing scoring is almost as ludicrous as the gymnastics. I don’t know that the wrong boxers are winning, but I know I watched several times where one fighter clocked the other a good one, got nothing, and while falling away his opponent grazed him and got a point…also, the showing of the scores so the guy winning can dance away and not fight is shameful and silly. Another sport headed down the tubes.
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Writing update:
Signature sheets arrived yesterday and were signed for the limited, lettered, and loyalty editions of The Not Quite Right Reverend Cletus J. Diggs & The Currently Accepted Habits of Nature were received and signed yesterday. They are winging their way to the two seperate binders for the various editions. Soon!
Began work on REDNECK DRAGON on the side - a screenplay. More to follow.
Nearing 10,000 words on “Tattered Remnants.”
Exciting news coming soon involving myself, my books, and The Full Moon Press. Stay tuned.
Expecting th ego-ahead any day now on the Stargate Atlantis book
In other words?
Busy.
-DNW
