I was impressed by the The Vancouver Olympic Winter Game Highlight Show delivered on the 'Channel 9' yesterday. The show dealt mainly with Australian mogul player 'Dale Begg-Smith' who has missed his back to back gold medal edged out by Canadian 'Alexandre Bilodeau' who now has been first Winter Olympic gold medalist in home soil.
As you may know the mogul competitor's ranking is decided by the judge's scores and Dale Begg-Smith was defeated by just '0.17' point. So someone can get suspicious of the decision thinking the Canadian player might have been given a bit of home advantage. To some extent, this is quite believable especially given that the Canadians have been longing for the first gold medal in home country since 1976 at which the Montreal summer Olympic took place.
The reason that the show was so worth watching is they tried to clear the doubt of the decision people may have born in their mind. Firstly, The expert appeared in the show explained why Dale Begg-Smith got less point than Alexandre Bilodeau showing the video of the performance scene step by step, so that TV audience can easily figure out. The next was Dale Begg-Smith himself telling how his play had been with a mention that it could have been better, quite naturally, trying not to hide his disappointment. The showing up of Alexandre Bilodeau was a really surprising thing to me. I have hardly seen other country's rival player being invited our TV show after defeating our player. He spoke out the delight of his winning and get a congratulation from the TV presenter. I still feel odd of that anyway.
Kim Yun A's figure skating performance is just around corner, and could we see a TV show like this if she doesn't get the gold medal of which every one in my country was so convinced that there is no room for other exceptions. I doubt it.
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