Artistic Gymnastics FIG World Championships 2021

[heywoodu 15,135]

2 minutes ago, thiago_simoes said:

He had lots of major mistakes on handstands. He doesn't deserve a medal here, but since this competition is in Japan and the FIG president is Japanese...

Well that doesn't seem to be helping him to a medal  

[heywoodu 15,135]

Meh, bit of a boring routine for Hashimoto. With 'boring' on the horizontal bar being absolutely relative, of course.

[thiago_simoes 1,423]

Just now, heywoodu said:

Well that doesn't seem to be helping him to a medal  

Too early to tell, especially after Hashimoto had a bad landing and was veeery late on some pirouettes. Maybe Uchimura can still win a medal here.

[heywoodu 15,135]

And of course my least favourite routine so far gets the best score  

[thiago_simoes 1,423]

Just now, heywoodu said:

And of course my least favourite routine so far gets the best score  

Well, what I did I tell you about the competition being in Japan and the FIG president being Japanese? 

Hashimoto will get gold even though he didn't even deserve to get a medal. That's FIG for you.

[heywoodu 15,135]

Just now, thiago_simoes said:

Well, what I did I tell you about the competition being in Japan and the FIG president being Japanese? 

Hashimoto will get gold even though he didn't even deserve to get a medal. That's FIG for you.

On the other hand, if this (the semi-corruption) was such a big thing, surely they'd have been able to 'find' 0.1 extra point for Hashimoto somewhere in the allround final so they'd win the biggest prize as well instead of losing it by the tiniest of margins?  

[thiago_simoes 1,423]

Seriously, I just hope they don't mess with Karimi now. He finally hit a routine in his life. He deserves a medal.

[thiago_simoes 1,423]

Just now, heywoodu said:

On the other hand, if this (the semi-corruption) was such a big thing, surely they'd have been able to 'find' 0.1 extra point for Hashimoto somewhere in the allround final so they'd win the biggest prize as well instead of losing it by the tiniest of margins?  

My best guess is that, as we say it in Brazil, there was a "gentlemen's agreement" going on. China has a long history of being even more corrupt. The fact that they have not been banned after many, many scandals -- especially the underage gymnasts at the Olympics and World Championships -- just proves that they have a very talented negotiator behind the scenes.

But now I've gone to the conspiracy theory territory. I know it.

[thiago_simoes 1,423]

3 minutes ago, thiago_simoes said:

Seriously, I just hope they don't mess with Karimi now. He finally hit a routine in his life. He deserves a medal.

Aaaand, of course, Karimi is out of the podium.

Why am I even surprised? Why?

Poor Karimi.

[thiago_simoes 1,423]

LOL, gold for China.

I have no idea how, but... at least Hashimoto didn't get an undeserved gold medal here.