What Strikes Me ? Record Breaking Scores Bowled At ... - Aerys Sports

Bad news is that no player from the United States medaled in the Singles division at the Women?s World Championships this week in Hong Kong. Good news is they came back and medaled twice in the doubles division.

The USA duo of Liz Johnson and Shannon Pulhowsky are taking home the gold in the doubles division after defeating Singapore?s New Hui Fen and Jazreel Tan in the championship match 453-392.

Another USA pairs team of Carolyn Dorin-Ballard and Kelly Kulick earned the?bronze medal after setting a record-breaking doubles score in qualifying and going on to lose their first match against eventual champions, USA?s Pulhowsky and Johnson. Okay, I know what you?re thinking.

?Are you saying that USA took out their own team to win the gold in the semi-finals??

And yes, that?s exactly what I?m saying.

And in this case, it was alright. USA?s Johnson and Pulhowsky went on to win the gold and Johnson explains how it?s always a team effort, regardless of the event.

?Today it wasn?t about Shannon and Liz winning the gold medal; it was about Team USA winning the gold medal. Whether its singles, doubles or any event, it?s always about winning for the team.?

However, I can?t help but be discouraged at the fact that besides scores being astronomical, both qualifying events so far at the tournament are record-setting performances and neither individual(s) has gone on to win the gold medal.

Besides Dorin-Ballard and Kulick, Shayna Ng of Singapore shot an astounding 1601 for?six games (266.8 average) to lead the qualifying division of the singles event and ended up earning bronze after losing to Jacqueline Sijore of Malaysia 246-214. I think I speak for Ng when I say, that?s kind of b-s.

The format of the each event requires a?six game qualifying round before they cut to the top?four for a one-game, head-to-head, semi-final match where the winners go on to face each other in the finals (also a one-game, head-to-head match) to determine the winner. So, after already bowling six games, your medal essentially comes down to one.

A little bird once told me the reason they do this is to make bowling more attractive to the Olympics selections committee. Obviously, bowling has been vying to be an Olympic sport for ages and the World Tenpin Bowling Association (WTBA) incorporated match-play into the World Championships and all other federation championships in 2008 because match-play is more exciting for viewers. And when I say viewers, I mean, the Olympics selection committee.

But I feel like if bowling is trying to be an Olympic sport, go back to the old model. It?s not like Usain Bolt had to lead the 100m only to race the top 4 in that event to race them again in a 40m to claim the gold.

Source: http://aeryssports.com/what-strikes-me/2011/09/06/record-breaking-scores-bowled-at-womens-world-championships/

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