Why did the listing of scores skip a 6th place last night? The list jumped from 5th to 7th, and the announcer read the scores on TV like this was nothing unusal! Does anyone know what happened to 6th place last night?
You were watching the NBC feed, right? Seventh place was an American, so they listed her instead of sixth. If she had been in 8th place, they would have shown 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8.
It’s common to show the lower finishing athletes from the country of the telecast.
Also, the 6th place finisher may have been one whose program was omitted in the broadcast.
No hope of medaling? No interesting backstory? Not from an English-speaking country? Something more interesting going on elsewhere?
Americans don’t need to see your performance. NEXT!