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American gymnast Chiles must return bronze medal, IOC says. (www.voanews.com)
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[–] [email protected] 110 points 3 months ago (18 children)

So, if I get it right, they scored her wrong because they though she stepped out of bounds, but she actually didn't. The coach appealed the scoring, and it was ruled that it was indeed ok, so she got points, which fairly placed her to 3rd place.

Now, it was overruled, because he appealed it 4 seconds late? That sounds pretty unfair, because it's not about her performance, which was eventually scored fairly and should get her to 3rd place, but about the process of the appeal, and by such a narrow margin.

While I get that such rules are in place, it feels wrong. Needless bureaucracy, and in this case there wasn't any malicious attempt to lawyer-up to get a medal she doesn't deserve, it was just a wrong scoring that should've been corrected.

This situation sucks for all the involved.

[–] Zipitydew 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Judged sports are silly like this all the time. I fully appreciate the skill requirement to compete. But it makes them hard to take seriously at this level of competition.

[–] taladar 3 points 3 months ago

I can't take any of them seriously since I saw one of those fencing events where they kept pausing just in time so there was one second left on the clock repeatedly, basically taking advantage of rounding to full seconds to drag things out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Yep, judging is always subjective. It's what that specific judge (or panel of judges) saw, weighted against their own biases, both in the sport itself, and the players/teams/countries competing.

Unfortunately, that means results are often unfair.

This case is particularly egregious because it seems like the judges actually agree they made a mistake, but the correction was appealed purely on pedantic adherence to procedure.

I.E., no one is even disagreeing that she should have won the bronze if her performance was judged accurately.

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