Non-IT, but incompetent, Josh Belzman
A lot of bile has been spilled from this page over the dead brains of people such as David Berlind or Paul Thurrot, described by their self-assuring slogan "where the unprofessional journalism looks better", driven to boring conferences by the hope of winning a free iPod. In IT journalism you can’t tell that someone is pro or "un-pro".
Here’s a guy who thinks he was a sports journalist. In his MSNBC column, In final judgment, eliminate gymnastics from Olympics
, this guy trying to conceal the idea of deliberate cheating on gymnastics scores by putting the blame on judges. I watched enough gymnastics contests and I saw too many times how the hierarchies are changing during any contest held on American soil. I have the luck to listen to world’s greatest champions, commenting with a surgeon precision what takes place on a floor or on a beam. I can’t buy this:
And thatÂ’s why gymnastics has no place in the Olympics. We have no idea how this sport is being judged, where the points are going, what criteria is being used to determine a champion. Is it the landing? The bow? The smile? What does it take to win?
If you really want to know how scores are calculated, switch from the biased and incompetent NBC or, better, buy the rule of the game on booklets available from the FIG online shop.
Of course, you should repeat as frequently as you can that Paul Hamm is a "victim" of the system. Isn’t he the one opposing to reviewing the performances on tape?