Posted on 08/10/2024 4:30:29 PM PDT by Morgana
Jordan Chiles has been stripped of the Olympic bronze medal she won in the women's floor final after a bombshell ruling from the Court of Arbitration of Sport on Saturday.
The 23-year-old US gymnast came third in the event, behind gold medalist Rebeca Andrade of Brazil and silver medalist and fellow teammate Simone Biles.
But this was only after Chiles' score of 13.666, which had initially placed her fifth, was bumped up by 0.1 following an appeal from her coach.
The change to her score meant that Romania's Ana Barbosu and her teammate Sabrina Maneca-Voinea were pushed down to fourth and fifth, each with matching scores of 13.700.
But, in a shock ruling today, the CAS ruled the judging panel were wrong to allow Chiles' score to be increased as the appeal came outside the one minute window allowed by the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG).
CAS wrote in its decision that the initial finishing order should be restored, with 18-year-old Barbosu third, teammate Sabrina Maneca-Voinea fourth and Chiles fifth.
USA gymnastics said it is 'devastated' by the decision, with Chiles taking to social media to say she was removing herself from social media 'for my mental health'.
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Not a math error. To make it simple she was given a 1.5 for a certain element when she really deserved a 1.6 for that element
Yep, they wanted three women of a certain “shade” up there on the awards stand, and they got it. Glad they fixed it, but it sucks that Barbosu didn’t get her time on the dais like she should have.
Good question. No, I don’t. Only that it was given by the judges on appeal from the coach and rescinded later on after review.
Anything involving Simone Biles is not worth watching or reading.
A math error? I’m sorry I skipped over that!
That’s dirty judge shenanigans, I think, if an incorrect score is posted and the coach has only 60 seconds to catch it and appeal it.
Thank you for your post!
womp womp
They said that Chiles' coaches exceeded the one minute time frame to file their inquiry.
Excuse me?!? One minute to get Chiles back to the sidelines, then to discuss, then to go over to the judge's station on the other side of the arena floor to file the inquiry?
That seems awfully arbitrary to set a one-minute timeframe for inquiries or challenges, especially with all the emotions and commotions going on at the time.
-PJ
“Our” DEI team in action and in failure. Not that I care, I’m not watching.
She came in 5th…
Her coach protested the score and she was awarded more points and that bumped her up to 3rd place
Then the other people protested her appeal, in review they declared her appeal that gave her the extra points to come in 3rd was not valid because it was filed to late they only allow you 1 minute after your score is posted to file an appeal. Apparently her coach filed the appeal more than 1 minute after her score was posted.
This means the extra points she were awarded were not valid and she came in 5th not 3rd..
I watched both routines. Barbosu’s routine was slightly more difficult with far better execution. She flowed smoothly through the routine on her footwork. There is a point where Chiles loses her direction doing footwork to her next pass. . Barbosu stuck two out of three landings with only a slop energy hop on the third. Chiles did not stick any of her landings and one landing she almost fell out of the corner. Barbosu also had better form with much straighter lines in her legs and arms. I’m sorry, but these things matter.
I see TWO problems…. the Romanian was not given her full score for her routine and the American was not deducted for all of the deductions she should have had.
I thought “bombshell ruling” was going to mean “she” is actually a “he.” That’s how things roll these days.
The judges had to reverse their initial reversal. It’s a re-reverse.
It was an adjustment to the difficulty score of her routine.
The Romanian did better and was penalized for stepping over the line but she did not step over the line.
I’m still wondering how one appeals a score that was subjective in the first place. Ah never mind....
Having actually watched some of the coverage, quite a few interviews after events, etc., I’d say at most by far of the US athletes are pretty good kids. (Well, ok, I think one is age 59!) MANY make references to God and / or country in quite positive ways, and “decency”, credit to supporters, coaches, teammates, and competitors, is in quite the abundance.
We have 592 athletes at this Olympics. Can you find over 10% who have been louts?
Why would anybody commit their entire early life to this sport?
Yep.
Disgusting that the Romanian gymnast was robbed of her moment for a DEI 3-fer on the medal podium.
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