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[Technonotice]

I was watching the news earlier and it was covering the Olympics(how unremarkable). It talked about the opening ceremony singing fiasco(as mentioned on another thread). Also it mentioned a fight(boxing) between a British lad and a Chinese guy. The story commented on how the Chinese judges were biased and awarded points in favour of the Chinese boxer and didn't award points when the British guy clearly scored them (the Chinese guy won in the end btw).

Is this just more propaganda/China bashing?

Or are they a bunch of cheating communists?

[Geronimo]

Cheating communists.

Start a poll.

[ewenm]

I don't think the judges were Chinese, but yes, I watched that bout and there were some punches landed by the Brit that looked like they should have scored but didn't. The commentators raised it but added that he'd still have lost even with the extra points. Article here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics/boxing/75...

[shadowninja]

Racialist bd. You remind me of the guy in the bureau de change... oh, I've done that joke already.

[absolutely]

Geronimo said:

Cheating communists.

+1

They try to make themselves look good behind the glitz and glamour but the workmanship of the places are shoddy in places, its all political spin.

[Technonotice]

shadowninja said:

Racialist bd. You remind me of the guy in the bureau de change... oh, I've done that joke already.

[0836whimper]

bit of both

[Twit]

Having watched the fight I reckon it is a bit dodgy! It was a close fight but the british lad had to take a standing count when it was really clear the punch hadnt connected and a lot of his punches were not scoring whereas a lot of the Chinese punches were...

But, it happens all the time, I remember a guy sitting in the ring at one olympics in protest and in 4 years time some british athletes will get favourable results. What goes around comes around!

[Simpo Two]

Most countries support their own side - apart from Britain of course, where we put everybody else first.

The Chinese judge will vote for the Chinaman, the Russian judge will vote for the Russian, the British judge will vote for anyone except his own side.

[Jasandjules]

It's a shame there isn't a slightly better way of judging these things so that impartiality is increased.

[Einion Yrth]

Jasandjules said:

It's a shame there isn't a slightly better way of judging these things so that impartiality is increased.

Fight to the death, it's the only way to be sure.

[Jasandjules]

Einion Yrth said:

Jasandjules said:

It's a shame there isn't a slightly better way of judging these things so that impartiality is increased.

Fight to the death, it's the only way to be sure.

Yeah, but that's sure going to be a challenge on the showjumping...

[Eric Mc]

The boxing judges are from a variety of countries. This should ensure that they are neutral - but the "home side" effect does come into play at nearly every Olympics. Boxing in particular always seems to have problems like this. I remember dear old 'Arry Carpenter goeing berserk at one Olympics (1984 Los Angeles I think) about the standard of the judging.