Did the people in charge develop this code to Nastia Liukin’s benefit

Inside Gymnastics

Marta Karolyi and the media seem to think so. The running joke by reporters according to this article is that this code was tailored to benefit Nastia. Wow. What can you say to that?

Last year many people felt the Olympics judging was giving the benefit to Nastia and now this? No wonder this sport is dying a slow death.

I also take exception that everything Nastia does gymnastics wise is “lightness of execution” her beam is anything but and her form on bars is an embarrassment to the sport for someone the sport labeled as the best AA gymnast.

“I can not say that this is a ‘Nastia Code,’” said Karolyi, responding a reporter’s nickname for the new rules, “but the FIG for a while is talking about this idea that women’s gymnastics is called artistic gymnastics, so we have to artistic-ify our gymnastics. Everything has to have the lightness of execution; the expressiveness of the execution; the real quality [in] the way you’re performing the skills. FIG doesn’t want to see skills which you can tell you struggled to compete the movement. … They want to see your execution come close to perfection and that is exactly where I would say that Nastia comes close to what FIG wants. It’s a Code which definitely enables [her] to stay in the sport very long.”