Her coach though, he was a shit to her. Talk about negative reinforcement.
I bet he didn't realize the cameras were on him.
Poor Nastia, poor Alicia. Both got screwed by more favoritism shown the Chinese.
I don't understand why they can't protest a judge's scoring. When they obviously miss things - they have film right there - or are showing blatant favoritism, they never get called on it.
What a ripoff.
Why can't they just give out two golds and a bronze? Why have a tie-breaker rule anyway? Other Olympic sports allow ties.
Nastia handled the situation extremely well, in my opinion. She was so poised accepting the silver. I know I would have been fuming.
It seems that gymnastics judging needs to be revamped yet again. Maybe instead of not allowing judges from countries that have gymnasts competing in the event (the way it is now), they should include a judge from each country represented in the particular competition and just throw out the highest and the lowest scores.
Maybe the viewing of slow-motion replays should be a mandatory part of judging (if it isn't already). A second, more critical look before a score was given surely couldn't hurt.