Mrs. Fox 71 happens to be a major fan of figure skating.  I have had to listen to that insufferable fool Dick Button for 20 years.  (I cannot convince Mrs. Fox that the best way to judge the talents of the performance is to have the sound off so that she's not influenced by the crowd or the music or the insipid comments of the announcers.)  We can all tell when a skater wobbles on some aspect of the performance.  But when two skaters both give wobble-free performances, the judging is inherently biased.  I can't tell you how many times I have heard Button say that while that first skater's performance was flawless, the judges had to "leave room" for the following skaters (invariably including the favorite) which automatically meant that the flawless rookie would never be able to get as good a score as the almost flawless favorite.

I have long been in favor of removing sports from the Olympics which had that sort of subjective scoring system, which would include synchronized swimming and boxing, at least.  Either that or include other "sports" which have the same system, such as ballroom dancing, singing, sculpting, WWF-style rasslin' and then throw in a nice beauty contest.

(Yeah, I know, I know.  You're saying that there is a unit of measurement for beauty, the millihelen.  (Helen had the face that launched a thousand ships, meaning that a millihelen is that amount of beauty necessary to launch one ship.))

Performers in these non-objectively judged sports would never stick with them unless they had bought into the type of scoring system that allows a judge to award a victory to whomever he or she chooses notwithstanding the merits of the performances.  In my case (and I'm in the minority once again), the total absence of objectivity has made these sports totally uninteresting to me (except of course for beauty contests.)