Why Nastia Liukin can get a silver while Yilin Yang only have a bronze on uneven bars?
I am a huge fan of Nastia and the team event loss to China was hard to swallow due to the obvious errors in judging, BUT i completely agree w/ the poster, this is exactly what i thought when i watched the uneven bars competition. Watch Yilin performance – that was a gold medal winning performance. At the least, the performance was on par w/ Nastia and honestly, this was a three-way split for gold. Listen to the commentary on Yilin’s performance – look how quick the NBC commentators were to move on from praising it. They had absolutely nothing critical to say about it b/c they knew it was solid, and thus they moved on QUICK to resume discussion of the whole “controversy” b/w Nastia and He. That performance was a mirror image of Nastia’s and NBC’s quick cut away from coverage of that performance is proof in the pudding. The worst part of these Olympics is the staggering gold deficit b/w China and US. But the incessant bttching by the commentators is just adding salt to the wound and make
