Heading into the final round, the Chinese looked unbeatable, leading the United States by 5.2 points and Japan by 6.9, huge margins under thenew gymnastics scoringsystem, where routines are no longer marked out of 10.
Under the international governing body's newscoringsystem introduced in 2010, the winner of a match is determined by the number of set points won, not the overall total score of the arrows.