Olympic Update: Don't settle things with tiebreakers, let's go to OT

I've had some rough experiences in my life, but I wouldn't trade places with Nastia Liukin on Monday night for all the X-Box 360's in the world.

The US Gymnast and All-Around gold medalist came up short on Monday night in the finals of the Uneven Parallel bars event. Liukin finished the event with a silver medal, her fourth medal of these Olympics.

Liukin lost to gold medalist He Kexin, who had the same score as Liukin.

With tiebreakers in place, it was He getting the gold and Liukin getting the silver.

I don't know much about gymnastics. I admit ignorance on my part. I'm the first to admit that and I probably always will. Maybe it's my American bias, but even I thought the judging is a little messed up.

I understand that they've modified the scoring, but I'm still confused. I feel as though it lacks clarity. I mean come on, the announcers aren't always the brightest, but even the NBC crew had a tough time and needed the score sheets for both women. I wouldn't try and read it, unless you do understand, then please try to explain it to me, preferably in some sort of a diagram.

If there's a tie, then let's call it a tie. Otherwise, we have some sort of an OT showdown. We can do it kind of like a walk-off, minus David Bowie. Something simple! We have the technology people! Let's make use of it!

Granted, things won't be perfect, but we can at least try to put together a scoring system that even an idiot like myself can understand.

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Olympic Update: US women in soccer gold medal final

The US Women's soccer team find themselves in familiar territory here at the Olympics. The US Team is in the gold medal finals once again after defeating Japan today, 4-2.

Angela Hucles two goals made the difference for the US. Hucles scored her first goal late in the first half to tie up the match at 1-1. Lori Chalupny put the US ahead for good when she scored in the 44th minute. Heather O'Reilly also contributed a goal, but this one came in the 70th minute of the match. Hucles second goal came during the 80th minute, which was more than enough to put away Japan.

The US will be facing Brazil in the finals. Brazil defeated Germany earlier today by a score of 4-1.

The US has a chance to win their third gold medal ever in women's soccer. They've had much success here in the Olympics, only losing one gold medal final. The US has a chance to show their soccer dominance to the rest of the world, once again.

Olympic Update: Torres wins Silver in 50 M

US swimmer Dara Torres picked up a silver medal on Sunday in the 50 meter freestyle at the Beijing Olympics.

The 41-year-old lost by .01 seconds to Britta Steffen of Germany. Cate Campbell of Australia finished in third place.

Torres has her third medal of these Olympics. Her other two medals are also silver. Torres now has 11 career Olympic medals.

Meanwhile, the US in the women's 4x100 medley relay, which Torres was apart of, won the silver. They lost to the Australians, who in the process broke a world record.

The US team consisted of Torres, Natalie Coughlin, Christine Magnuson and Rebecca Soni. The team lost by less than a second. China picked up the bronze medal.

Finally, in the women's marathon event, Constantina Tomescu Dita won the gold medal. The Romanian defeated Wincatherine Nyambura Ndereba of Kenya by over a minute. Chunxiu Zhou of China picked up the bronze medal. Dita finished the marathon in two hours, 26 minutes and 44 seconds.

Olympics Update: 1-2 US finish in women's all-around gymnastics

The United States picked up a couple more medals last night (or today, I'm not very sure). US gymnast Nastia Liukin won the gold medal in the women's all-around final. Liukin scored a 63.325, narrowly holding off runner-up Shawn Johnson.

Johnson, the silver medalist for the event, scord a 62.725. She earned her second silver medal of these 2008 Olympics.

Liukin also has a second medal of these Olympics.

Yang Yilin of China picked up the Bronze medal in the event.

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Olympic Update: US Women get Silver medal in team event

The US women's gymnastics team had plenty of opportunities to win the gold medal in the team event, but mistakes from some of their athlete's in last night's event fell short. Therefore, China won the gold medal, the US won the Silver and Romania won the Bronze.

China finished the event with 188.9 points. The US finished about 2.5 points behind, a total of 186.525. While the US barely outscored China in the Vault and the Beam, they were outscored in the Floor routine and the Uneven bars.

Next up will be the Women's Individual All-Around event final, which takes place on Friday morning.

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