Gymnastics at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's uneven bars

During the uneven bar finals Nastia Liukin and He Kexin had a tied score of 16.725, which was followed by a tiebreaking procedure.[1] In this procedure there are six judges who judge each competitor on a scale of 1-10. When all six scores are finalised, the highest and lowest eliminated and the remaining four are averaged.[1] The first tiebreaking procedure is determined by the E score, the execution score. Since Liukin and He tied with a E score of 9.025, the second tiebreak procedure was required to determine a winner.[1] In this event, the lowest score given to each competitor is dropped. Before this, the remaining scores were:

When the next lowest scores are deducted, the following happens to the averages.[1]

Thus, since Nastia Liukin's average was lower after the second round of score elimination, He Kexin was declared the winner.[1] The results of this final have remained controversial, as many fans claim Yang Yilin was most deserving of the title, whereas others think of Nastia Liukin as the rightful winner or state that Great Britain's Beth Tweddle should have placed in the medals.