No Joke, Twins' Act Needs Work

[dissention]

Originally Posted by The Tower

Well, I thought he kicked ASS (and a nice one at that) on the high bar and the floor excercise. I kept rewinding the TiVo on that high bar routine over, and over, and over!

Yeah, but when you take all of his performances and put them together, he was very sporadic and inconsistent. There was a error when tallying the votes, it's obvious the medal should have been given to the other man. If soemone wins the lottery and then cashes the check, they don't get to keep the money if it's discovered that they were one number off.

[The Tower]

Originally Posted by dissention

Yeah, but when you take all of his performances and put them together, he was very sporadic and inconsistent. There was a error when tallying the votes, it's obvious the medal should have been given to the other man. If soemone wins the lottery and then cashes the check, they don't get to keep the money if it's discovered that they were one number off.

Whether or not he keeps his gold medal, I don't care. His vault performance in the all-around totally sucked.

Then again, I could care less about the whole Olympics thing- I was just watching it for the eye candy... Gymnastics, Greco/Roman Wrestling, Swimming and Rowing (!).

[chiffon head]

Originally Posted by dissention

http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/...6154_db009.htm

SEPTEMBER 1, 2004
A NOT-SO-NEUTRAL CORNER
By Ciro Scotti

Most embarrassing moment: Being introduced by the Duh Twins, Jenna and Barbara, a pair ditsy enough to make Jessica Simpson seem like Ayn Rand ( ). The girls weren't kidding when they said: "You know all those times when your parents embarrass you? Well, it's payback time -- on live TV."

HAH! No kidding.

I guess the Bush camp thought they would take a cue from J. Kerry's daughters and put the girls up to make an intro.- BAD move. Those girls CAN NOT hold a candle to the Kerry's. But whatever....I just want to vote already!

Renee

[Merf]

Originally Posted by dissention

And this is just my opinion, but I didn't think Hamm was very good.

I find this shocking! The man went from 12th to 1st for gosh's sakes.

He had an amazing comeback, with two gold-medal worthy performances on the parallel bars and the high bar. All I'm going to say about the controversy is that Paul should NOT have to pay for the mistake of the judges... asking him to give back his gold medal is akin to rewinding tape from Super Bowl 38 and saying "ooooh, that should have been a penalty, the Panthers should have gotten the ball back here, so here you go, here's the Super Bowl title." This is why instant replay (etc.) is not used in gymnastics.

I agree that the gymnastics competition was like a circus this year, though. The judges raising the score of the Russian because the crowd would not stop booing was absolutely deplorable. And the fact that Paul had to wait for the crowd to stop booing before he could perform the high bar (akin to "icing" the kicker in football) and he still walked away with the silver medal on that apparatus-- it just shows again how great of a gymnast he really is. I love him and I admire him for sticking to his guns. I also feel quite sorry for him that his gold medal will always be tainted. It is not his fault!

[The Tower]

Originally Posted by Merf

I love him and I admire him for sticking to his guns. I also feel quite sorry for him that his gold medal will always be tainted. It is not his fault!

And he's hot, hot, HOT!!!

[irishgrl]

If those girls were from a less-wealthy family, their future careers would involve polished poles and money-stuffed g-strings, rather than political polls, money-laundering, and G-Men.

OH MY GAWD! I laffed out LOUD!