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The same you judge the olympic break-dancing competition: with human juges that rate competitors based on a handful of criteria.
by hk__2 2y ago
The same you judge the olympic break-dancing competition: with human juges that rate competitors based on a handful of criteria.
- riehwvfbk 2y agoThe criteria: 95% politics.
- DiggyJohnson 2y agoYour cynicism doesn't match reality.
- riehwvfbk 2y agoIt matches my reality perfectly, but maybe it doesn't match yours. When medals are clawed back years after the competition and awarded to the loser - there is no other explanation. And the loser with a medal they didn't win is even more of a loser.
- DiggyJohnson 2y agoI'm not arguing that this never happens, I'm arguing at the magnitiude: > 95%
- riehwvfbk 2y agoOK, it's 90%. Or 70%. Is that better? :)
- hk__2 2y agoThat’s what you say when you don’t accept your defeat but it’s hard to prove. I’ve seen the finals and the Canadian guy who won was clearly better than the French one; if it were 95% politics the French would probably have won.
- HideousKojima 2y agoJust looked up videos of the first and second place medalists for breakdancing this year. It was decent, but I've seen better breakdancing in random videos taken on the streets of LA back in the 80's, for example. Or pretty much every single sequence in Breakin' and Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo.
- hk__2 2y agoIt might have to do with the fact that was the very first edition at the Olympics. It may also be the last because it won’t be there at Los Angeles in 2028.