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[quote=Anonymous]The US was not seconds late.

The judging panel used the wrong point value for a particular skill performed by Chiles.  This incorrect value lowered Chiles total score by 0.1 thus taking her out of the bronze medal.  The judging made an error.  It was not a question of whether Chiles did or did not correctly perform the skill.  She did it correctly.  Everyone agrees she did it and that she did it correctly.  But, the judging panel - for some reason - valued the skill 0.1 points lower than its assigned value.

Do the skill you get X.  There is no “judging” aspect to consider if the skill is performed correctly.  And, again, there is no question the skill was performed correctly.  The panel was just wrong.  Why they were wrong is unknown.  But no one disputes that they were wrong.

Under the gymnastics competition rules, scoring errors can be challenging if raised within 1 minute after the scores officially being posted.  It is a very short time period.  But, the short time period makes sense when you are talking about a traditional competition rather than an Olympic single apparatus event.

Think about it.  Gymnast X is 0.1 ahead of Gymnasts Y going into the next apparatus event, or in the same apparatus event.  In order to get ahead of Gymnast X and “win”, Gymnast Y may elect to do a more difficult and risky skill to gain the necessary fraction of a point.  But, Gymnast Y will take a bigger risk of failing on that skill and fall out of contention for a win.

Here it is a very different issue.

Rather than take the time to see if the US properly and timely challenged the point assessment the review panel took the Romanian submitted video and assumed that it 
showed the first US challenge to the scoring coming in 4 seconds too late.  The huge problem now is that the Romanian video showed the third US conversation and not the first or second ones.  Why Romania had video of the third conversation only is a question that must be answered.  The US has contended all along that they knew they timely challenged the score.  And - the US coaching staff is right.  There is video of the first US challenge presented 47 seconds after the Chiles score was posted.  And, an additional protest with supporting values was presented to the judges by the US team 55 seconds after the Chiles score was posted.

So - lots of errors and possibly just corruption here.  The scoring panel “errored” in assessing the value of a skill.  There is zero chance that happens accidentally.  The scores are not blank sheets.  The judging panel knows what the gymnasts are doing in advance including possible changes (eg if a higher difficulty score were needed to medal).  The gymnasts are not making it up as they go along.  Why did the panel make such an error?  That has to be determined.

Second - why did the review panel not consider other video?  The US claimed it timely questioned the score.  Apparently, the only video reviewed was submitted by Romania showing only the 3rd conversation at 1:04 after the score is posted, and not the first two at 47 seconds and again at 55 seconds after the score is posted.

So - the judging panel got it right.  The medals were properly awarded and the timing challenge was wrong.  And, frankly, unless the camera used by Romaina was suddenly turned on between 56 seconds after the score was posted and 64 seconds claimed by Romania, they knew the challenge was wrong when they submitted it and left out the key evidence to mislead the review panel.

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