You’d think with technology they would have figured out a way to detect clays getting hit. In tennis, the computer knows exactly where the ball is, in baseball we can tell balls from strikes with millimeter precision, in football we can detect an off-sides precisely, all without human intervention.
Having fallible human beings making life-changing calls like this in sports is something we need to fix.
All three judges should be banned from judging any competition ever again. They have literally one job and between the three of them couldn’t do it. At best they are incredibly incompetent and at worst they’re just corrupt.
The way she’s handled this whole situation is an example to be followed. Gracious & dignified in accepting the silver medal, but also acknowledging the injustice of the situation and determined not to let this kind of thing ever happen again.
It really is a farce. She hit that target so the shootout should have carried on. Astonishing there wasn’t any kind of detection technology or video review system in place in the Olympic final.
Give them both a gold after review. Amber is amazing that she’s so magnanimous about it. Good on her. Doubt I would be!
Correct me if I’m wrong, I thought I saw a comment or post in Reddit shortly after this happened saying that the woman who won Gold had this same thing happen to her earlier, which is what led to the shoot off in the first place. Is this accurate or did I misread?
I know the gymnastics issue is being handled by gymnastic organisations, but I really feel like if they start stripping away medals due to judging mistakes it opens a whole can of worms for the entire Olympics, including this situation, which is only fair.
Can someone tell me why she can’t bring her case to the CAS? Same as Romania did with the cluster fuck of the bronze situation in gymnastics? They overturned the judges decision. Which seems to open them up to other challenges
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You’d think with technology they would have figured out a way to detect clays getting hit. In tennis, the computer knows exactly where the ball is, in baseball we can tell balls from strikes with millimeter precision, in football we can detect an off-sides precisely, all without human intervention.
Having fallible human beings making life-changing calls like this in sports is something we need to fix.
All three judges should be banned from judging any competition ever again. They have literally one job and between the three of them couldn’t do it. At best they are incredibly incompetent and at worst they’re just corrupt.
The way she’s handled this whole situation is an example to be followed. Gracious & dignified in accepting the silver medal, but also acknowledging the injustice of the situation and determined not to let this kind of thing ever happen again.
It really is a farce. She hit that target so the shootout should have carried on. Astonishing there wasn’t any kind of detection technology or video review system in place in the Olympic final.
Give them both a gold after review. Amber is amazing that she’s so magnanimous about it. Good on her. Doubt I would be!
Correct me if I’m wrong, I thought I saw a comment or post in Reddit shortly after this happened saying that the woman who won Gold had this same thing happen to her earlier, which is what led to the shoot off in the first place. Is this accurate or did I misread?
I know the gymnastics issue is being handled by gymnastic organisations, but I really feel like if they start stripping away medals due to judging mistakes it opens a whole can of worms for the entire Olympics, including this situation, which is only fair.
Can someone tell me why she can’t bring her case to the CAS? Same as Romania did with the cluster fuck of the bronze situation in gymnastics? They overturned the judges decision. Which seems to open them up to other challenges