just been watching the gymnastics, team gb were given silver only for the judges to realise they messed up with the scoring for japan and changed it to bronze.
Not a "****-up". The appeal was procedure and the review was fair and the penalised none dismount was shown to be unfair as the gymnast did land on his feet. Better to review and get a fair result. Something many people are wanting in football rather than blatant match changing official's errors being upheld surely.
fair point, never watched the gymnastic's before, correct desicion in the end just gutted for team gb
Totally agree - the Japanese guy was wrongly penalised - he landed on both feet albeit untidily! - and the appeal saw justice done.
He did land on both feet - however, it looks to me like he wasn't actually going for the dismount at the time. He went up to handstand and lost his balance and toppled over. As a 3-times world champion and double Olympic Silver medalist (at Beijing) he had the experience and smarts to recover it enough to look like a dismount. By counting it as a dismount he got the extra .7 difficulty making the difference between 4th and Silver (IIRC that .7 was split between a .3 and a .4 increment). The Difficulty (D) score can be appealed against, but the Execution (E) score can't.