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so bela karolyi died,

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

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BOW DOWN TO QUEEN REBECA ANDRADE ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥🥵🤩🙂‍↕️

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ok so basically six (?) egregious mistakes were made in the span of like 15 minutes:

cecile inquired too late

judges accepted the inquiry despite it being late

judges didn't rewatch jordan's entire routine

judges credited a dodgy gogean

line judges gave sabrina a fake oob

camelia didn't inquire sabrina's line deduction

and that's not even going into the more competition-wide issues like judging being strict all week except for americans and line judges viewing remotely from angles that have had issues before.

ultimately the blame rests on fig more than anyone else for accepting the inquiry in the first place but holy shit what a mess

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so, from what i gather, there are now three possible different answers for who won bronze in this fucking final: if you go by the results as they were for the medal ceremony, jordan won. if you go by the scores originally given and the rules as they should have been followed, ana won. but if you go by what actually happened (ie, sabrina did not actually go out of bounds), sabrina won. MESS

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Rebeca Andrade training the Triple Twisting Yurchenko.

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all that heartbreak and the correct athlete (sabrina) still doesn't have the bronze medal

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if the inquiry was late why did they accept it though......are ANY of you able to read a clock

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stripping her of her medal because theyre too incompetent to enforce their own rules is disgusting and cruel

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I'll just leave this here

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It’s sooo obvious that USA stans only have any empathy for Jordan in this situation, not the two Romanian girls who both did better routines than Jordan and were wronged. Idk how else you come to the conclusion that a Romanian gymnastics legend who is a leader of the federation standing up for her athletes is because she’s actually just a racist

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Reigning Olympic champion on the uneven bars from 2012 to 2021, Aliya Mustafina.

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btw rebeca comes from such an improbable backstory. a family of 7 siblings and a single mother who worked as a cleaner, started training gymnastics bc of a social project promoted by her hometown’s city hall, used to walk 2 hours by foot as a little kid with her brother to get to her first training center, moved away from her family to another state at age 10 to get better training. still, in a country where gymnasts dont get the money or the structure they deserve, she beat all odds to become what she is and be second only to thee simone biles. insane to witness.

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I was waiting for the NBC Primetime angles to confirm whether Sabrina went OOB or not and she was clearly in bounds omg. FIG actually robbed her. She would have been 13.8 and won bronze without the 0.1 ND.

AA final: Suni goes OOB on vault, but line judge misses it & she avoids 0.1 ND

FX final: Sabrina stays in bounds on floor, but line judge incorrectly calls it OOB

Missing out of bounds is one thing, but inventing one is way worse. Giving gymnasts the benefit of doubt or missing deductions in real time is one thing. Inventing deductions that don't exist is completely worse.

Even if FIG never changes the results, they need to give an explanation for what the ND is and change things so there is robots, sensors, video review, you're able to inquire NDs, etc. so this doesn't happen again.

This is like the most blatant error FIG has ever made because e score and even d scores or incorrect start values can be subjective. OOB is completely objective, you're either in or out and Sabrina was in.

Also I feel like this is worst even then what happened to Yang Tae-young since they didn't file an inquiry until the competition was over. Sabrina's coaches immediately filed an inquiry and even tho d scores are for inquiry only that has to change. Also Nadia isn't a coach or part of the federation but she allegedly complained about the score immediately too and chief judge told her Sabrina went OOB but they were literally lying.

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Giorgia Villa (Italy), 2024 Paris Olympics