Court Rules In Favor Of Romanian Gymnasts On Olympics Inquiry.
Court Rules In Favor Of Romanian Gymnasts On Olympics Inquiry.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has voided the inquiry that led to an Olympic bronze medal for American gymnast Jordan Chiles in the women’s floor exercise.
In a decision Saturday, the Court of Arbitration for Sport said that Chiles' inquiry had indeed been filed too late. Gymnastics rules require that inquiries be filed within one minute; Chiles' inquiry was filed after one minute and four seconds. With the inquiry vacated, her score was reverted to 13.666.
From https://www.npr.org/2024/08/10/g-s1-16471/american-gymnast-jordan-chiles-olympic-bronze-ruling
Jesus Christ.
I think rejecting it there would have been fine, I guess, if that's the rule.
Once they took the appeal it's silly for it not to stand.
"The Romanian protest had also asked that all three athletes be ranked together in 3rd place..."
The Romanian appeal was grounded in the established rules, and it would be hard to say they weren't being good sports about it
It's a bad look, the judges missed the difficulty, then allowed an inquiry they shouldn't have and awarded her the medal.
This reeks of caring more about procedure than getting the call right.
Jordan won, the rest is bullshit.
Yeah. I'm assuming the whole point of the time limit is to have the person who made it onto the podium stay the winner instead of re-legislating after the fact.
CERTAINLY they'll return the fee the USA team paid for the review.