The Olympics are in full swing and just about everyone is tuning in to cheer their athletes on in the Games.

For Chinese netizens, however, the results of the men’s gymnastics all-around event has them fuming in anger.

They felt that the judges unfairly deducted points from 25-year-old Chinese gymnast Xiao Ruoteng, causing him to miss out narrowly on the gold medal. Japan's Daiki Hashimoto, 19, emerged champion while Ruoteng was awarded the silver medal.

According to reports, Ruoteng had 0.3 points deducted for not saluting the judges to indicate the end of his routine during his final set. Ruoteng's final score was 0.4 of a point short of Hashimoto's score of 88.465.

Chinese singer Huang Zitao got so upset with the turn of events that he posted this angry rant on Weibo.

“What’s going on here. Selective blindness,” he wrote, adding an angry face emoji for effect.

His short post resonated with netizens, who agreed that the judges were being “biased” and that they were “trying to take away a medal from China by pretending that our athlete didn’t follow the rules”.

The post is so popular, it received more than 2.19mil likes and 60K comments in 15 hours.

Sina Sports further stoked the flames of discontent among netizens when they claimed in a report that Hashimoto had “an unstable landing” during one of his runs, insinuating that he should have received a lower score.

In the midst of all this anger, rational netizens have pointed out that the 0.3 of a point deduction wouldn’t have mattered in the end since Ruoteng would still have lost by 0.1 had he not been penalised for not saluting the judges.

Photos: PBE Media, Sina