hot of the presses – ioc calls for investigation into the actual ages of the chinese women’s gymnastics team

http://www.smh.com.au/news/off-the-field/ioc-calls-for-probe-into-china-star/2008/08/22/1219262483864.html
The age of 3 of the Chinese women girls on the Olympic gymnastic team has been heavily disputed all throughout their competition. It seems that the IOC has succumbed to all the media pressure. And part of me hopes it has more to do with following the actual rules – it’s just surprising how this [...]

sharing olympic medals – what’s your opinion?

Tonight I caught the women’s gymnastics apparatus final which ended on a unique note, the top two athletes finished with the same final score, but given IOC rules regarding ties in gymnastics, there was some algorithm written into the software used by judges to put one athlete over another. I could probably look up exactly [...]