Translated: detailed article explaining how the Romanian lawyers handled the case at CAS, I encourage you to read the entire article
How do we know time has run out?
1. The Omega system, which was first used for these Olympic Games, records everything: hours, minutes and seconds.
So, for example, when a sportswoman is given a mark, the hour, minute/minute, second/second are recorded.
When this is displayed on the screen, the same. When a verbal challenge is made, the referee you address it to immediately records it, and the Omega system "remembers" the time you made it.
Then it's simple. It looks at what time your athlete's score was posted, then when you notified the referees that you wanted to submit a written protest, and it comes up with a result.
In the case of the U.S. challenge, one minute and four seconds. Enough for CAS to say that the action was not in accordance with the rules and decide to annul it.
If there is video evidence, as the Americans claim, that Cecile Landi verbally announced that she wanted to appeal, it will still be the official time, the time recorded by Omega, the one that will be taken into account.
How Sabrina Voinea's case was settled at CAS
1. The same Omega system brought vertical cameras to Paris, which therefore filmed the athletes from top to bottom on the floor, to see if they were stepping off the mat. So, the referees could see when the heel, in Sabrina's case, was outside the competition area, but they couldn't see if it was actually touching outside! And the rules clearly state that you have to touch, not just "fly over" the space behind the white line demarcating the official competition space. The footage provided by NBC television was crucial in this case.
When they got here, the Romanian lawyers have been hammering on "technology failure". That is, the referees couldn't do their job perfectly because the technology provided didn't allow them to. But the big problem was that there was no challenge during (!) the contest for this space penalty of Sabrina Voinea. And that's what FIG and the IOC latched on to.
Why? There is another, perhaps more important reason. If the Ad-hoc division panel referees had accepted this "technology flaw", then all the space (i.e. - exit from the mat) challenges during the Olympic Games would have had to be re-reviewed! How many rankings would have been changed?
Moreover, at the other floor competitions, World and European Championships, according to a referee with more than 25 years' experience, the referees see on a monitor, as if they were standing on the carpet, whether or not an athlete is stepping out of space. These competitions, however, do not work with Omega.
2. Deserves the higher grade of D (editor's note - 6 instead of 5.9). CAS doesn't have the jurisprudence and the fall to analyze scores given by referees during competitions and didn't want to set a precedent now.
CAS negotiations
The IOC has rejected the deal between Romania and the USA, who wanted all 3 gymnasts to receive the bronze medal. Why? It would have set a dangerous precedent and diminished the value of an Olympic medal.
Moreover, the International Gymnastics Federation then came up with another proposal. That only Ana Maria and Jordan Chiles take the bronze medal. CAS said the following: "How do you justify the fact that Chiles stays with the medal, but you accept that the time for the verbal challenge was exceeded, even by 4 seconds? Because that's how Ana Maria gets on the podium."
In case I missed something, you can check yourself. Btw, the golazo sport news site were celebrating yesterday that they were quoted by the New York Times
Good for them, they had a great coverage.
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How do we know time has run out?
1. The Omega system, which was first used for these Olympic Games, records everything: hours, minutes and seconds.
So, for example, when a sportswoman is given a mark, the hour, minute/minute, second/second are recorded.
When this is displayed on the screen, the same. When a verbal challenge is made, the referee you address it to immediately records it, and the Omega system "remembers" the time you made it.
Then it's simple. It looks at what time your athlete's score was posted, then when you notified the referees that you wanted to submit a written protest, and it comes up with a result.
In the case of the U.S. challenge, one minute and four seconds. Enough for CAS to say that the action was not in accordance with the rules and decide to annul it.
If there is video evidence, as the Americans claim, that Cecile Landi verbally announced that she wanted to appeal, it will still be the official time, the time recorded by Omega, the one that will be taken into account.
How Sabrina Voinea's case was settled at CAS
1. The same Omega system brought vertical cameras to Paris, which therefore filmed the athletes from top to bottom on the floor, to see if they were stepping off the mat. So, the referees could see when the heel, in Sabrina's case, was outside the competition area, but they couldn't see if it was actually touching outside! And the rules clearly state that you have to touch, not just "fly over" the space behind the white line demarcating the official competition space. The footage provided by NBC television was crucial in this case.
When they got here, the Romanian lawyers have been hammering on "technology failure". That is, the referees couldn't do their job perfectly because the technology provided didn't allow them to. But the big problem was that there was no challenge during (!) the contest for this space penalty of Sabrina Voinea. And that's what FIG and the IOC latched on to.
Why? There is another, perhaps more important reason. If the Ad-hoc division panel referees had accepted this "technology flaw", then all the space (i.e. - exit from the mat) challenges during the Olympic Games would have had to be re-reviewed! How many rankings would have been changed?
Moreover, at the other floor competitions, World and European Championships, according to a referee with more than 25 years' experience, the referees see on a monitor, as if they were standing on the carpet, whether or not an athlete is stepping out of space. These competitions, however, do not work with Omega.
2. Deserves the higher grade of D (editor's note - 6 instead of 5.9). CAS doesn't have the jurisprudence and the fall to analyze scores given by referees during competitions and didn't want to set a precedent now.
CAS negotiations
The IOC has rejected the deal between Romania and the USA, who wanted all 3 gymnasts to receive the bronze medal. Why? It would have set a dangerous precedent and diminished the value of an Olympic medal.
Moreover, the International Gymnastics Federation then came up with another proposal. That only Ana Maria and Jordan Chiles take the bronze medal. CAS said the following: "How do you justify the fact that Chiles stays with the medal, but you accept that the time for the verbal challenge was exceeded, even by 4 seconds? Because that's how Ana Maria gets on the podium."
In case I missed something, you can check yourself. Btw, the golazo sport news site were celebrating yesterday that they were quoted by the New York Times
Good for them, they had a great coverage.
Jocurile Olimpice. Culisele finalei de la sol. Cazul explicat pas cu pas + Ce s-a întâmplat la TAS
Cazul de la Jocurile Olimpice, cu Ana Maria Bărbosu, Sabrina Voinea și Jordan Chiles în prim plan.
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