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[quote=Anonymous]So it sounds like the US has lost and they are not going to review the video evidence that the US submitted the inquiry in under 50 seconds and were not 4 seconds late after all.  IOC is requesting that Jordan return her bronze medal for floor.

This means that the medal will go to Ana, even though there seems to be consensus that she gave the 5th best floor performance that day.  The judges have reviewed the video and even Romania seems to agree that the judges erred by underscoring Jordan's turn by 0.1.  The Romanians and others have also argued that Sabrina shouldn't have received a 0.1 penalty that presumably was for going out of bounds (though this hasn't been endorsed by the judges and there hasn't been a statement about how she was scored to make this crystal clear).   So with those corrections Sabrina would get 3rd, Jordan would get 4th and Ana would be in 5th.  Yet Ana is getting the bronze.

Do you think Ana should turn down the medal so it can go to her teammate, Sabrina?  It seems her coaches and the other Romanian officials all think Sabrina should have gotten 3rd if she had been scored correctly.  I just can't imagine Ana keeping the bronze and being able to look her teammates and coaches in the eye.  So far she's said that she hopes that all three of them are on the podium at the next Olympics and that she knows how Jordan feels, but both of those sound pretty trite from a 5th place finisher who is benefitting from bad judging and a crazy ruling about being 4 seconds late.  [/quote]

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