| Sports |
| You know, Alicia Sacramone's falls didn't cost the US gold. |
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| Ogordemir99 |
Posted: 8/14/2008 1:01:12 PM UTC |
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# 001 |
Level: 49
Liberal Arts Major
| The point differential between gold and silver was 2.375. Alicia fell twice and stepped out of bounds once, giving her a 1.7 point loss for mistakes and two subpar scores: 14.125 on floor and 15.1 on beam. Had she sucked less she would have gotten a 15.025 and 15.9, respectively, which aren't bad scores at all, especially as Nastia Liukin scored 15.2 and 15.975 in those events, so we can't really expect her to have done too much better. And Alicia's vault score was the second highest for the team.
Given all that, we can only really chew her out for all but .675 points (71.59% of the losing differential), so ultimately it's not just her fault: the team was boned, fall or no fall.
In other news, Romania sucks.
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~ Ogordemir ~
"The sciences have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." ~ H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu |
| Ozzmark |
Posted: 8/14/2008 9:54:33 PM UTC |
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# 002 |
Level: 30
Legend
| At least your country has medals :( |
| Ogordemir99 |
Posted: 8/14/2008 10:50:22 PM UTC |
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# 003 |
Level: 49
Liberal Arts Major
| Yeah, four of them.
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~ Ogordemir ~
"The sciences have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." ~ H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu |
| Ozzmark |
Posted: 8/15/2008 12:53:14 AM UTC |
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# 004 |
Level: 30
Legend
| Better then ZERO. |
| Ogordemir99 |
Posted: 8/15/2008 1:49:22 AM UTC |
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# 005 |
Level: 49
Liberal Arts Major
| At least you have no expectations.
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~ Ogordemir ~
"The sciences have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." ~ H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu |
| Kodan |
Posted: 8/15/2008 2:24:20 AM UTC |
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# 006 |
Level: 49
Liberal Arts Major
| In other news, the olympics suck.
Fixed. >_> |
| zia |
Posted: 8/15/2008 10:14:18 AM UTC |
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# 007 |
Level: 34
Elite
| Nastia is so hot.
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