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08/10/2024 22:50

Subject: Summer 2024 Olympics

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Anonymous wrote:Taking away her medal because of the judge's error is a new precedent. They really only do it for bad behavior or cheating. Neither applies in this case. I am curious if the judges will be reprimanded now

+1 and what is frustrating here is that this is a case of multiple judging errors that compounded impacting multiple athletes. Potentially even more than we know. The athletes in question did nothing wrong and in fact competed at the highest level with grace and sportsmanship -- there is nothing more any of them could have done and yet Jordan Chiles is being asked to pay the price for inept judging.

Just to be clear here are the errors the judges made:
1. They erroneously failed to give Chiles credit for a completed element (a tour jeté full that she absolutely completed) leading to her difficulty score being wrong. This is not in dispute. Chiles did the element and was not given credit for it. The judges already admitted this when they granted her petition about her difficulty score. I should also note here that the judges ALSO failed to give Chiles credit for this move in the team finals which is why her coaches were ready to petition -- they knew the judges had a history of failing to give credit.

2. They apparently also erroneously accepted a petition from Chiles' coaches after the time limit for her petition was up. This is 100% on them and not on Chiles or her coaches who are not in charge of keeping the clock for petitions. They could have said "no more petitions -- time is up" and the petition would never have been filed and it would have been unfair but also significantly less of a mess than the current situation.

3. The judges may ALSO have screwed up Ana Barbosu's score. She was given a neutral point deduction of -.1 Neutral point deductions are not issued by the panel of judges but are automatically applied when a gymnast goes over time or in the case of floor steps out of bounds. The idea is that these are not subjective -- either an athlete is over time or not or over the line or not. But it's a bit opaque -- the score will tell you there was a neutral deduction but won't tell you what it's for. Usually it's obvious and the athlete knows what the problem was. But in Barbosu's case it was not obvious. She also filed a petition regarding her neutral point deduction. It was denied. However IF the deduction was for stepping out of bounds there seems to be video evidence that she didn't step out -- she came close but her heel never actually touched the line.

So it's actually entirely possible that Barbosu should be the bronze medalist but we don't know because we don't know if that's what her deduction was for and the judges don't have to provide evidence of the deduction even though it's the one deduction that is supposed to be totally objective and easy to prove. At the same time we know for certain that Chiles final score is incorrect and should be .1 higher based on her actual routine but she is being given an artificially low score due to a technical issue of her coaches filing the petition to get her score corrected FOUR SECONDS late. And yet even though this was apparently a terrible error worthy of stripping an athlete of a medal the judges did not bother to check the time of the petition when it was filed.

An embarassment and NOT for Chiles or Barbosu or any of the involved coaches. There is only one way to make it right and that is to award two bronze medals and admit publicly that this was a mistake by the judges and only the judges. That is the only just outcome at this point because an actual fair competition is now impossible. The damage has been done.