So we learn an important new fact about Olympic gymnastics. An appeal was made after poor marks were awarded to Japan as one of their team fell off the pommel horse. He was dismounting they said and you cannot mark down like that for a dismount.
Funnily enough the chap was still turning when his elbows gave way and he fell almost sideways off the horse, just managing to stay on his feet on the mat. Their claim I guess was that he was actually in the act of dismounting and was not still doing a one hand push off or anything fancy. Certainly the exceptionally safe routine conducted would support such an assertion, but he still fell off the horse, his arms collapsing before he came off. He was not in control of that.
The corrected points gave Japan the Silver-for-falling-off award and ditched a deserving Ukraine out of the medals. No-one else fell off I think. The little people like me think that should be important and that fair play ought to be important to the organisers, but then hey, we are not rich for no discernible reason either I guess. So what do we know.
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