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Court Rules In Favor Of Romanian Gymnasts On Olympics Inquiry. (www.rferl.org)
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[-] roguetrick@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

[-] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] incogtino@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 month ago

"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

[-] Phegan@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] hojomonkey@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

CERTAINLY they'll return the fee the USA team paid for the review.

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