Could someone here explain it to me please?
But it’s still ok for guys to fight girls!!
Barbosu's performance was superior to Chiles anyway. Chiles routine was clunky and even sloppy with her landings whereas Barbosu nailed it.
Good call, Olympics.
Her coach took more than the allowed one minute to make an appeal on scoring. After the appeal she was placed third, but the Court of Arbitration of Sport said the appeal didn’t count because it was too late. Original 5th place score restored.
Looks like coach appealed after the one minute ‘window’, so the judges had to reverse themselves.
The coach appealed the 13.666 score to the judges. The judges gave the gymnast an additional .1 point bump to raise it to 13.766, placing the USA gymnast in third. But I guess you have only a minute to run over to the judges to make the appeal in the first place and the coach didn’t make it over in time. So the overwatching panel took away the .1 bump to let the original 13.666 score stand, dropping the gymnast back to 5th.
Seems like the right decision was made, it’s just the timing that is awkward.
I was going to ask the same thing. I read two articles about this and I have no idea.
I think I read a headline (American Thinker?) that without patriotism, the Olympics mean nothing.
I cannot count on American patriotism, or even decency, from American athletes and press. It’s been this way for several Olympic cycles. I have long since stopped watching the Olympics and I do not care about the medal count.
Somehow, I got suckered into reading this article about nothing. Should I decide to be entertained by nothing, there is always Seinfeld.
Chiles was originally in 4th place after the floor competition. The US lodged a complaint and claimed she should’ve received an extra .1 on one of her elements. The judges agreed and the Romanian girl who was in 3rd was bumped to 4th, out of the medals. They have since reversed the ruling.
The irony is the DEI crowd was loving this original result as it was an all black podium with the girl from Brazil winning gold and Biles and Chiles in silver and bronze. They claimed this was the “wave of the future “ and the picture of Biles and Chiles bowing to the Brazilian would get consideration to be placed in the Louvre.
Guess not.
Anything involving Simone Biles is not worth watching or reading.
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 thought “bombshell ruling” was going to mean “she” is actually a “he.” That’s how things roll these days.
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....
Why would anybody commit their entire early life to this sport?