Are you sure her scores weren't inflated because of her reputation?

Jul 27, 2021
1:32:23pm

EQD2 Contributor

Maybe the judges felt pressure to go easier on her than they should have?

This is a problem with all subjective sporting events in my opinion. Give me the pure events where it's the athlete and the clock or the scale. No ambiguity.

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Okay, my thoughts on Biles

Brigham

7/27/21 1:27pm

... Not an expert, but I don't think that's how it works (or she would have had

BoiseBlueCoug

7/27/21 1:29pm

In preliminaries, she stumbled a bit in half of the events, but still ...

Dan

7/27/21 1:30pm

Are you sure her scores weren't inflated because of her reputation?

EQD2

7/27/21 1:32pm

I doubt it. Her level of difficulty is off the charts.

Turd Ferguson

7/27/21 1:34pm

Part of the higher score comes from more difficult tricks.

Eddie

7/27/21 1:35pm

I'm thinking specifically of the last qualifying event when they all did the

EQD2

7/27/21 1:36pm

Part of it is the height and power she generates on the vault. That might be

AFCougK9

7/27/21 1:44pm

"Untrained eye" is the problem here.

JuicyJam

7/27/21 1:49pm

Judges are human, but I see this as unlikely.

JuicyJam

7/27/21 1:35pm

With some of her falls and errors, it appears if you try the most difficult

D.T. Survivor

7/27/21 1:50pm

Seems there was pressure she put on herself to always be pushing the difficulty limit. Maybe relieve the pressure by

Soupie

7/27/21 1:30pm

Can we end this false talking point? Nobody replaced her. She wasn’t replaced.

Corn Pop

7/27/21 1:35pm

she was replaced in each event by the person who wasn't going to compete

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