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Both had a difficulty rating of 7.7 and executed a score of 9.025.
At the same time, gymnastics was the only sport at the Olympics this summer that decided not to grant ties.
Under equally as new rules, the Uneven Bars were decided by a multi-tiered tiebreaker. The tiebreaker rules
were applied correctly and He Kexin was awarded the gold.
NBC Gymnastic Analyst Tim Dagget on the questionable judging and the tie.
"What it comes down to Bob (Costas), is that the people on the floor (judges) have to follow the rules." "I think that they dropped the ball on this one (the judges)." "It's a very convoluted process." "This is not about one country versus another, the Chinese have been fabulous, it's about one routine
versus another, and I thought that the one girl wearing the red, white, and blue was definitely better today." "It should not have gotten to that point (a tiebreaker)." "The problem is you end up with judges that aren't that experienced." "The one that really jumps out at me is the Australian judge that took a full point from Nastia Liukin
and only .07 for He Kexin."
Bela Karoyli to Bob Costas on NBC commenting on the confusion over gymnastics scoring and judging throughout the
2008 Beijing Summer Olympics
Nastia Liukin's performance in terms of quantity equals Shannon Miller's record medal haul of 5, who won 2 silver and 3 bronze medals at the 1992
Barcelona Olympics, and also means that Nastia now has one more Olympic medal than her father Valeri.
Her father, Valeri Liukin, won four medals at the 1988 Seoul Summer Olympics (including two gold medals) as a member
of the Soviet Union's Men's Gymnastics team. Twenty years later, Nastia return 5 medals to their new home in the
United States.
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