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【标题】:Australian gymnastics judge blamed for defeat
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【翻译作者】: bylfie
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【原文】
Australian gymnastics judge blamed for defeat19-08-2008 - 10:01
By Stephen Hutcheon
Thecontroversy over the allegedly under-aged Chinese gymnast He Kexin tooka new and unexpected twist last night when she edged out an Americancompetitor for the gold medal.
The two teenagers both ended the final of the women's uneven bars with a dead-heat score of 16.725 points.
Butthe Chinese girl got the nod after a panel of judges - includingAustralia's Helen Colagiuri - invoked a complicated tie-break formulathat was introduced after the Atlanta Olympics and used for the firsttime last night to decide an Olympic competition.
Valeri Liukin, father and coach of US gymnast Nastia Liukin, had no doubt who was to blame for his daughter's second placing.
Askedabout the Australian judge's score of 9.30 for the Chinese girlcompared with the 9.00 she gave his daughter, Liukin said it was notthe first time Australian judges had dealt Nastia a blow.
"It's been [the] last three world [championships] that way - I'm very disappointed with that - consistently," he said.
Reporter: "With that particular judge?"
Liukin: "Same country, I think, different judge. I don't want to go any further with that."
Reporter: "Why would Australia not like US gymnasts?"
Liukin: "You want to go and ask her? No idea. There's not a single gymnast in the final over there."
Thetie-break loss was the all the more bitter for Valeri Liukin, a formerSoviet gymnast was awarded a joint gold medal with fellow countrymanVladimir Artyomov after they tied the horizontal bar competition at the1988 Seoul Olympics.
His daughter was equally surprised but was much more accepting of her fate.
"I'ma little disappointed ... you know I tied. It wasn't that I got secondby three or five tenths. I had the same, exact score and that's whatmakes it a little bit harder to take.
"You do your performanceand you end and then you turn it over to someone else's hands. We'vegotten used to that and we just have to accept that.
"Nothingagainst anyone from Australia. I don't want to start anything ...that's not my place to judge. I'm just kind of stating the facts."
Theother surprise on the night was that He's teammate and the eventualbronze medalist, Yang Yilin, didn't score better than the 16.650 shewas awarded.
Yang's performance was greeted with the loudestcheers of the night and she was embraced and lifted up by He who cameup to her after she completed her routine as if to anoint the winner.
Gold medal winner He has also been dogged by suggestions during the Games that her age has been fudged to allow her to compete.
Underexisting rules, gymnasts must turn 16 during the year of Olympiccompetition. And He is listed as having turned 16 on January 1 thisyear.
But journalists and bloggers have turned up numerous pressreports - written both in English and Chinese - showing that last yearand earlier this year the 1.42m (4'8") tall athlete was reported asbeing aged 13.
Mysteriously, some of those reports were removedfrom the internet late last week after the age issue started to getsome media attention.
Two other Chinese gymnasts, Jiang Yuyuanand Yang Yilin, are also suspected of having had their ages officiallyincreased in order to allow them to compete.
Asked to comment on the age issue last night, Valeri Liukin said: "If they cheat, shame of them. But we have no proof."
Again it was his daughter who when asked the same question showed just what a class act she is.
"She'san excellent athlete no matter how old she is. She's done her hard workand her preparation and she deserved that Olympic gold medal today."
[ 本帖最后由 bylife 于 2008-8-20 20:03 编辑 ] |
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发表于 2008-8-20 19:37
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小鲁金其实挺优秀的。当然我更喜欢我国小运动员。
