Olympic Shunting Devices

I've been pretty disappointed with the way Canada has done at the Olympics. But I know each of them is trying their best, and sometimes you just don't get the lucky break you need to win. However, I after watching the Vault event this morning, I know that Kyle Shewfelt's fourth place finish has nothing to do with luck, and everything to do with stupid-ass judging:

Dragulescu left the crowd in awe with his opening vault, which earned him a whopping score of 9.900, the highest score of the competition.
But just when it seemed like the Romanian had the gold medal wrapped up, he stunned onlookers when he landed awkwardly on his second vault, stumbling sideways and putting two hands down to prevent him from falling off the mat.

For a moment, it looked like Shewfelt might stand on the podium for the second straight night. However, the judges awarded Dragulescu a generous 9.325, giving him an average of 9.612 and ending Shewfelt's hopes of a second medal in Athens.

"We believe the score of Dragulescu was mathematically impossible," said Caron.
"His start value is a 9.9 and based on what we've seen, a fall with two hands on the floor, plus he also has a few steps on top of that, would be at least a minimum of .7 deduction."

After watching Dragulescu's first vault, I conceeded that Shewfelt's medal hopes were dashed. But his second vault was a polar opposite. Earlier in the competition, a guy did essentially the same thing, and received a 9.1. Yet Drags gets a 9.325???? What the crap was that? One of the judges gave him a 9.4-something! UHHHHH!!?!?!?!?!
It's crap like this that really turns me off the Olympics. And it's not just Canadians that get the shaft either, it happens ALL THE FREAKIN TIME!
Hopefully, when all is said and done, the Judging commitee's for each sport will sit down and say "alright, no more pissing around, we're gonna judge the same everytime, no matter what".

In other news though, we did win a silver in wrestling! Nice work Tonya!

As well, I watched a racing even in which Americans won gold, silver and bronze! I think it was the 400metre. All I could say was "Holy Crap!"
That's pretty stinkin' impressive... running the table and having three countrymen on one podium! Do they have enough US Flags to raise at the medal ceremony???