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rebecca andrade & flávia saraiva olympic medalists besties ☆

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Qiu Qiyuan of China wins silver in the uneven bars final at the 2024 Paris Olympics, scoring a huge 15.500.

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Rebeca Andrade (BRA): Floor Exercise Champion, Paris 2024 Olympic Games

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"Thanks to everyone who added a bit of bronze to this medal. I can't stop thinking about Sabrina and Jordan at this moment. It's a tough situation for us with so much uncertainty and overwhelming emotions. I hope everyone understands that we did nothing wrong at the Olympics. And that the Olympic spirit is more important than any misunderstanding between the authorities. I want to believe that the day will come when all three of us will receive a bronze medal."

Federația Română de Gimnastică

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so the question is how many other little rule breaks have been going on at literally every meet ever, Romania was the first to challenge it but I'd put good money that things like this happen in each and every meet

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Saying Romania is an "influential and iconic federation" is hilarious to me bestie before these Olympics Romania hadn't been internationally competitive for like 12 years

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so it seems like the US did just kinda sit there and do nothing lol I would expect nothing else from the historically incompetent USAG which is why the pretty, shiny PR statements they've been putting out have been so funny

"we will fight for Jordan" well seems like you didn't really fucking try when you were given the chance

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CAS reasoned decision is out

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I’m tired of 4 year fans weighing in on this. This is a family matter. Please respect our privacy in this difficult time

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so many layers to this whole gymnastics scoring scandal like clearly there’s an aspect of horrible anti black racism in the way jordan chiles has been treated on social media + xenophobia against romanians coming from american fans (which is i think driven to some degree by the fervent anti russia sentiments even though that doesn’t make any sense lol) + an aspect of perceived and actual favouritism towards usag as a federation by fig and judges for years that is now reaching a breaking point + americans convinced that actually usag gymnasts are somehow underdogs because romania won a bunch of medals in the 70s. and of course nationalistic jingoism on both sides 🤩

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Tbh at this point don't give anyone the medal

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Qiu Qiyuan of China wins silver in the uneven bars final at the 2024 Paris Olympics, scoring a huge 15.500.

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taking jordans medal away is unprecedented and wrong they’re so spineless for not letting them share putting all the weight on the athletes when it was a judges error

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oh this next quad is going to be insufferable

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it also pisses me off because clearly some of you didn't learn shit from tokyo and i was saying this back then too: you don't have to invent some kind of excuse as to why simone didn't place first. she's not a demigod, she's an incredibly talented human being who is allowed to lose sometimes and contorting yourself to asterisk any non-gold she wins with extenuating circumstances is denying her that!!!! being beatable doesn't threaten her legacy and it doesn't take away anything she's already done!!! and it's insane to me that her own coaches are perpetuating this after what she's been through!!!!!

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wag judging and scoring needs a COMPLETE overhaul. i think its time to make execution count a hell of a lot more than difficulty. theoretically that is the case in an open-ended code but i think we can see more and more that isnt happening