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Message: [QUOTE="eebmg, post: 4022577, member: 7548"] I saw something at the Women's weightlifting competition that surprised me. In deciding whether a lift is legal, they have 3 judges needing to signal good. 2 of 3 is enough to secure the lift. Well, the Ecuadorian lifter going for a lift to secure gold had a bit of a shaky lift and only got 1 of 3 positives and the lifter had a bit of a tantrum since she thought her lift was good enough. Apparently, there is a 9 person jury onsite that can be called on to appeal and they overturned the no lift decision. So the American lifter was left with no chance for gold and finished with silver. I just found the whole thing a little banana republic. I think she got the lift up but I thought there was a time period which you had control of the lift (I seem to recall 3 seconds?) and that was not met imo PS. The American failed in her third lift so she would not have gotten gold anyway [/QUOTE]