Gymnasts Confuse Judges

Not even the judges could nail down their routine at the 1996 World Gymnastics Championships when men and women began their semifinals,

The judges were forced to revise the finishing order in the uneven parallel bars semifinal after a revision showed they had given the wrong starting values to several gymnasts. The mishap worked in favor of Romania’s Lavinia Milosovici, who had finished in 12th place in the original order, but moved all the way up to first in the revision.

The top eight advanced to the finals.

For U.S. gymnast Dominique Dawes, the final order dropped her from second to sixth, but it all worked for the better since the 19-year-old Silver Springs, Md., native missed her signature move.