I agree that any sport that involved judging is going to be subjective. Thus, the varience of scores from one event or performer to the next. That is always going to the case (judges judge on how well THEY think the performance was).

BUT, Yang's score error was NOT subjective. His end score was (the penalties the judges assessed) but the starting point is one thing that has little to do with subjectivity (although there is a bit of subjectivity there, the Committee wouldn't have come out and said they * up if it were completely subjective, like the scoring system)

Yang did do 4 holds as opposed to three which should have been docked (but wasnt), but this is what I think LeagueGolf and others were referring to when talking about subjectivity in the judging. Of course, that will always be the case. However, when the starting point is wrong, its not a subjective error, its just a human error that cost him the gold. If I were put in the same situation, I know I would think I deserved the gold (as I assume many of you would). Kind of like giving the Soviets three times to score a basket in the final second, wouldnt you say?

I agree, there was no conspiracy, but at least through this olympics the International Gymanstics Federation knows what kind of problem there is in scoring (especially the men's high bar routines on the last day) and can hopefully fix it before Beijing.