[Newsbot]

Title: Cuban taekwondo athlete banned for attacking judge
Category: Sports
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2008-08-23 08:16:38

[Alta_redneck]

Mayhem again in a judged sport. It wouldn’t bother me if the IOC got rid of all judged sports. Either judge it from slow-mo instant reply or dump it. Take diving for an example, if you’ve watched it, how many times do you hear while watching the reply, the TV guys say “ there’s a mistake, but I don’t think the judges could see it from their angle” if they think this would take to long, then cut the competition down to 1 round. Why do they need 6?

[stokes]

In a sport like Tae Kwon Do it is easy to declare a winner...the last one standing.. but I guess that would be too hard on the job prospects of Olympic judges

[Pimpbrewski]

Either way, considering on who is right or wrong.

It's not cool to kick a referee.

[newfette]

Alta_redneck Alta_redneck:

Mayhem again in a judged sport. It wouldn’t bother me if the IOC got rid of all judged sports. Either judge it from slow-mo instant reply or dump it. Take diving for an example, if you’ve watched it, how many times do you hear while watching the reply, the TV guys say “ there’s a mistake, but I don’t think the judges could see it from their angle” if they think this would take to long, then cut the competition down to 1 round. Why do they need 6?

as for the whole diving thing the judges should be placed in a different places... a few on the side and a few that will look straight on to see the form breaks cause i agree its annoying as hell to her them say that its wrong but the judges cant see...

[kenmore]

The Olympics like all sport ie NHL Hockey etc are all about money and are just like any other performing arts.. are based on door receipts.. hello!