See the other comment (I should have put them in one). The point was, she is an amazing athlete who did a much more difficult routine than the others. Just because the media claims something is out of bounds, doesn’t mean it was or the judges saw it. She also may have been given more points for the level of difficulty versus doing safe routines like many of her competitors.
All of this arm chair quarterbacking and assuming the worst in everything gets pretty old.
No idea if affirmative action is alive and well at the Olympics, but Douglas was well out of bounds during the floor exercises - both feet, several steps.
One thing I did notice was that she did not receive as much "love" from her fellow American gymnasts as the others did.