I am going to assume that many of you have been glued to your television sets during NBC Primetime to catch up on all the Olympic action. If you have been one of the millions then I am sure you have seen a lot of gymnastics and the controversial judging in event after event. Should judging be changed in the Olympics? I recently received an e-mail from a concerned Olympic viewer. This is what he has to say:

"I was just wondering if I was the only one slightly skeptical about the men's gymnastic scores? As I sat there and watched China perform event after event and saw their scores, I thought to myself, "Ok, admittedly, I don't know much about gymnastics so sixteen point something must be ok."

"But then, I watched team after team (not too mention some of the American performances) do event after event, and I started wondering what was going on. In my, granted, untrained opinion quite a few of the other athletes did far better and more difficult routines than the Chinese. Take for instance the pommel horse where in my opinion Alexander Artemev performed a spectacular routine in his final performance this evening and scored a mere 15.35 and China got a 16.1 with a performance that was good, but not as good.

"Two performances before that team U.S.A. performed some of the best and most spectacular horizontal bar performances (in my untrained opinion) that I have ever seen yet was only scored in the fifteens with the difficulty in the sixes. What is going on there? And China turns around in the last round and does a very "safe" routine with hardly anyone leaving the bar and gets almost identical scores. Something stinks in Beijing and it ain't the air anymore."

That e-mail came from Lance Foss. Lance was already on to something that I didn't think was that big of a deal until I began watching the women's events as well. Nastia Luikin seemed to have been robbed out of a gold medal on the un-even bars to a chinese athlete. And Shawn Johnson was in first place on the floor routine until the final gymanst did what appeared to be a flawed routine, yet still good enough to supplant Johnson for the gold.

What have your thoughts been on the gymnastics judging as well as the Olympic Games in general? Please leave me your comments and tell me what you think is going on in Beijing. Fair game? Or Foul play?