FX EF INQUIRY (Jordan Chiles Stripped Of Bronze Medal/USAG launches appeal) PART 2

[RichardL]

Do the gymnasts have immediate access to their artistry scores? Because I think it's wild that WTC would introduce this extremely consequential set of new deductions and then basically hide that result from the athletes who would stand to learn and improve from their scores? Even if the answer is 'yes' (for the athletes), I feel like it's hard to justify why the scoring isn't released during competition for the benefit of the audience/commentators at least. It feels very much like FIG isn't confident that those scores would stand up to scrutiny and is intentionally obfuscating them within the E score.

Surprising absolutely no one!

 

[Doug1233]

There were so many issues with OOB deductions on floor in Paris. I just found another one.

ETA: She would have easily made EF if she hadn’t fallen on the DLO. 12.7 with a fall.

 

[RichardL]

There were so many issues with OOB deductions on floor in Paris. I just found another one.

ETA: She would have easily made EF if she hadn’t fallen on the DLO. 12.7 with a fall.

MJDS in Paris was an utter tragedy. She looked so good, in theory.

 

[phoenix7]

There were so many issues with OOB deductions on floor in Paris. I just found another one.

ETA: She would have easily made EF if she hadn’t fallen on the DLO. 12.7 with a fall.

If Melanie had made floor final, chances are Voinea would now be bronze medalist, since Ana Barbosu qualified joint eighth.

 

[RichardL]

If Melanie had made floor final, chances are Voinea would now be bronze medalist, since Ana Barbosu qualified joint eighth.

Conversely, MJDS could have saved us from the whole fiasco by hitting in the final. As could any number of gymnasts, sigh. I said it at the time but the judges were giving Chiles the gold medal with a hit routine. So many competitors in that final seemed so exhausted.

 

[ArnoldRimmer]

Conversely, MJDS could have saved us from the whole fiasco by hitting in the final. As could any number of gymnasts, sigh. I said it at the time but the judges were giving Chiles the gold medal with a hit routine. So many competitors in that final seemed so exhausted.

Definitely. That was Jordan's for the taking.

And yes, the collective exhaustion. It's one of the reasons I really hope the mixed team event in LA is more flexible than it was at Euros. Several of the gymnasts in the floor final are the ones who'd have been their national qualifiers for mixed team had it been in operation, and they did not look like they had another day of competition in them.

The other reason is to see more Andrade!

 

[Doug1233]

I mean - surely it was Biles' for the taking?! She had like a billion out of bounds, got absolutely destroyed on artistry, was downgraded a leap which they gave to others - and she still basically won.

It was Simone that completely threw that final gold medal away.

 

[RichardL]

I'm sad that that's likely her last competitive floor routine. What a dud.

 

[MaryClare]

I'm sad that that's likely her last competitive floor routine. What a dud.

I look at it more as relief that she got through without injury. She was in a boot for days afterwards