Reply #18: no inconvenience at all, since you didn't use any facts,

[homerthompson]

just more unprovable conjecture.
1st, where is the rule book that says judges score relatively? any sports broadcaster ever mention this? any athlete ever say this? why do you have access to this special information but no one else does?
2nd, i asked "you're saying that..." and ended the sentence with a question mark. - clearly, i did not put words in your mouth.
3rd, i said "the koreans said they did protest..." - were you standing right there, next to them, throughout yang's performance, to able to definitively tell me that they're lying about that? it's your word against there's.
lastly, even IF what you say is true, that scoring is based on a curve, then the olympic officials would just tell the koreans that even if they retroactively give yang the .100 that he deserves for that scoring error, that would just automatically push up every better score that came after him, INCLUDING hamm's... so hamm would still have a higher score anyways. and knowing that "anyone involved in gymnastics" knows about curved scoring, the koreans, therefore, should already know that bumping yang's score would automatically bump up hamm's too, so he'd still get the gold despite their protest. so then, they actually shouldn't even bother protesting b/c it wouldn't change the overall 1-2-3 results.