With Jordyn Wieber Out of the All-Around, Do You Think the Qualifying Rules for Gymnasts are Fair?

As I remember, this rule has been in effect since '04. It makes sense for the Olympics. The purpose of the Olympics is for the best athletes from each country to compete against each other, not for the country with the most top athletes to load up the competition and rub the rest of the world's collective nose in 'it'.

It's a shame that, on that particular day, two other US gymnasts scored higher than Wieber and moved ahead. It's a shame,but not unfair. Once you get to that level of competition, on any given day, any competitor can conceivably outscore any other competitor. That's the nature of the game. Team competition is still to come. We all need to get off this topic for now and help Jordyn get on top of her skills for the sake of the US Team.

She shouldn't have been in the competition anyway. She has a bump in her nose. Very unattractive.

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And I was talking about that stupid rule from the moment they reminded me of it, before I knew there were 3 powerhouse girls on that team.

Kind of stupid that the 4th (or was she 5th) best qualifying all around gymnast can't compete for the gold just because she's on a team that had 2 better on that day. Guess we'd rather see the 25th best gymnast compete instead just so we can have a bigger array of countries. Ridiculous.

Also a rather large thumbs down (or perhaps middle finger up) to the imbeciles at NBC that kept her on camera from the moment she found she was out.

There's enough good drama in the Olympics without having to keep a camera shoved in the face of 17 year old girl that just had her dreams shattered.