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Some
days after the final events of the Trampoline World
Championships in Odense, Denmark, the Technical Committee of
Trampoline (FIG) inquires into the score of Olympic women
category. After a video analysis the specialists saw a
difference of 0,2 in difficulty, but the Russian Irina Karavaeva
won Gold with a difference of 0,1 against silver medalist Anna
Dogonadze-Lilkendey from Germany.
Manipulation or mistake? What is the answer...?
Triumpf oder
Fehlurteil..? |
Usually
the scene knows the routine of Irina
Karavaeva quite well. For she did not perform a
new routine in the WC final of Odense. The Russian won
gold with a competitive edge of one tenth in front of the
German Anna Dogonadze-Lilkendey....
Now, however, on the videotape it can be seen that the
Russian did not exercise a routine with the difficulty of
14,6 but only 14,4.
But in the protocol these ominous 14,6 can be read...!?
According to this new situation Dogonadze would deserve
gold with a competitive edge of one tenth - Karavaeva
would be left with Silver...!? |
Opfer oder
Betroffene...? |
The
trampoline reglement does not really allow protest
and especially no changes after the
official declaration of the winner. Where can the cause and the
solution of this evidently crude incorrectness be found...? The
judges sitting at the judging table during a WC-Final are the
best ones the technical committee can select. In the case of the
two colleagues from Canada and Poland this can not be argued.
Normally their quality would exclude any kind of error. Then we
are left with the possibility of an incorrect transmission of
data. Nobody who was present had really realised the undoubtedly
wrong degree of difficulty! This could have been a consequence
of the score board of the data processing and presenting company
according to some attendees and afflicted. "Much to small,
these things; and the duration of the announcements was much too
short…", as some experts judge the situation.
What now?
At the moment the technical committee of FIG is dealing with
this question. Already during the last Olympic final of women's
AG there had been this striking mistake with the vault that had
been too low. The result could hardly be verified… In this
situation the international federation is challenged to find an
agreeable, and fair solution. The reglement does not offer a
solution (yet). Therefore a solution should be found in the
sense of a gentlemen-agreement. In this context the Russian
responsible people should be asked to accept the objective video
analysis, the resulting situation, and to recognise the real
winner. Since the afflicted Irina Karavaeva is absolutely not to
blame for this misjudgement, FIG should not take her crown away
but give another one to the other - main - afflicted. Then both
could be winners according to a "gentlemen-like" and
Salomon like decision!
Even when there is no such example in the history of this sport
- life does not exclude errors and mistakes. It only matters how
we deal with them!
(...read the FIG Press release, 2001, August,
the 21st: "Fair play
won")
(Eckhard Herholz
Translation: Florian
Schmid-Sorg / London |
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