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19.08.08, 09:12
BEIJING (AP)—For the first few minutes, Nastia Liukin didn’t even know the score, unable to see anything beyond the “2” in front of her name.
When she finally did look, she figured she had to be seeing double.
“I turned to my dad and said, ‘Dad, we got the same score.’ He looked up and said, ‘Oh yeah.’ We started getting a little confused,” she said.
They weren’t the only ones.
The Olympic all-around champion finished with the same score as China’s He Kexin in Monday night’s uneven bars final, but He got the gold medal and Liukin went home with a silver thanks to gymnastics’ convoluted tie-break system that sent everyone scrambling for the rulebook. Reading hieroglyphics might be easier than explaining why He won.
Double take: Same score, 2 different medals (http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijing/gymnastics/news;_ylt=ArctgBc5Q9imW0Q7DJYw3syVTZd4?slug=ap-gym-eventfinals&prov=ap&type=lgns)
When she finally did look, she figured she had to be seeing double.
“I turned to my dad and said, ‘Dad, we got the same score.’ He looked up and said, ‘Oh yeah.’ We started getting a little confused,” she said.
They weren’t the only ones.
The Olympic all-around champion finished with the same score as China’s He Kexin in Monday night’s uneven bars final, but He got the gold medal and Liukin went home with a silver thanks to gymnastics’ convoluted tie-break system that sent everyone scrambling for the rulebook. Reading hieroglyphics might be easier than explaining why He won.
Double take: Same score, 2 different medals (http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijing/gymnastics/news;_ylt=ArctgBc5Q9imW0Q7DJYw3syVTZd4?slug=ap-gym-eventfinals&prov=ap&type=lgns)