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Old 08-25-2004, 12:26 PM
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Originally posted by krazy
Well, even though I feel like I have learned a lot about these sports like gymnastics, I still have to understand that these types of scoring techniques are pretty foreign to me... I think it is something that we all cannot really understand unless we are gymnastics buffs... No pun intended... Anyways, it doesn't ruin the competition, and the Russian athlete was super cool about it, he came out and asked the crowd to stop booing... It just shows you the sportmanship of many of these guys and girls...
Well, maybe not SO super cool....in this article he mentions that he feels he should have had at least a bronze (which I personally would agree with, but as others in the interview said, he took a big step on his landing which cost him some points).
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