How Aly Raisman Was Screwed Out Of A Medal In The All-Around

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		Tech Science Entertainment Wall Street Markets Strategy Sports Lifestyle Politics Law International Video Latest Friday, August 3, 2012 How Aly Raisman Was Screwed Out Of A Medal In The All-Around When the gymnasts had completed the women's all-around competition, American Aly Raisman and Russian Aliya Mustafina were tied for third place. Rather than give both gymnasts a bronze medal, something done in many other Olympic sports, a tie-breaker was used to give the bronze to Mustafina. To break the tie, each gymnast's lowest score from the four routines was dropped. It would be like breaking a tie in swimming by eliminating each racer's slowest leg and then recalculating the time. As we can see in the chart below, the lowest score for each gymnast came on the beam. But since Raisman's beam score was higher, she had more points deducted from her final score. That's right, Raisman lost the tie-breaker because she did better on the beam than Mustafina. And Mustafine won Bronze because she had the lowest score of all eight routines combined. In fact, Raisman actually out-performed Mustafina in three of the four events. On the one hand, it's silly that some Olympic events have ties and some have tie-breakers. But if gymnastics is going to use a tie-breaker, at least use one that is not dumb.  Read » Also On Sports Page Today: Michael Phelps Just Lost $440,000 On His Baltimore Condo Kobe Bryant Forgot To Take The Lens Cap Off His Giant Camera An Ethiopian Steeplechaser Slammed Straight Into The Last Hurdle Chinese Trampolinist Dong Dong Won A Gold Medal With This Physics-Defying Landing Advertisement SPORTS CHART OF THE DAY: Only 11 Countries Have More Gold Medals Than Michael Phelps Since 2000 SPORTS CHART OF THE DAY: China And The U.S. Are Blowing Away The Other Countries SPORTS CHART OF THE DAY: The Controversial 16-Year Old Chinese Swimmer's Time Was Unusual Share this: Facebook Twitter Digg Reddit StumbleUpon LinkedIn The email address for your subscription is: dwyld.kwu.jobhuntportal11@blogger.com Change Your Email Address | Unsubscribe | Subscribe | Subscribe to the Sports Page RSS Feed Business Insider. 257 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10010 Terms of Service | Privacy Policy

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