China has won the gold medal in the men’s gymnastics team final for a second consecutive Games, besting Japan and Great Britain. The United States finished a disappointing fifth.
Problems With Olympic Judging? Make It Rain
Japan took the silver in the men’s team gymnastics competition on Monday, but they nearly finished fourth. Luckily for them, an appeal to the judges on Kohei Uchimura’s pommel horse held up and he was given a higher score. How does one appeal to the Olympic judges, you ask? With cold, hard cash.
Maggie Hendricks of Yahoo! Sports had a lot more information about the challenge, which had Twitter in an uproar as they saw the Japanese team just straight-up handing a crisp Benjamin to the judges. The money is to ensure that countries don’t just challenge willy-nilly all over the place, but this is still crazy to watch:
Read Article >Men’s Gymnastics: Event Schedule, TV Coverage For Monday
Getty ImagesThe first major medal event in gymnastics at the 2012 London Olympics will take place Monday with the men’s team event going down at 11:30 a.m ET. The event will be streamed here live, but won’t air on TV until primetime for NBC’s network coverage.
Eight countries will square off in the team event: the United States, host country Great Britain, Russia, China, Japan, France, Ukraine and Germany. Six of these teams competed in the 2008 Beijing Olympics, with Great Britain and Ukraine taking the spots of South Korea and Romania.
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