The Romanian Olympic and Sports activities Committee introduced on Wednesday that will probably be interesting a controversial score within the girls’s gymnastics ground ultimate
It’s in response to a earlier attraction by the U.S. that resulted in one of the vital controversial moments of a controversy-filled Paris Olympics.
Romanian gymnast Ana Barbosu had initially clinched the bronze medal for ground on Monday and commenced celebrating on the mat. However then U.S. coaches appealed to judges over Jordan Chiles’ rating, and a evaluation resulted in a 0.1-point improve, which moved Chiles forward of Barbosu for the bronze medal.
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Sabrina Maneca-Voinea of Romania through the girls’s steadiness beam ultimate on the Paris Olympics. (Daniela Porcelli/Eurasia Sport Photographs/Getty Photographs)
As a result of Chiles’ rating was modified, and she or he was bumped as much as third place and awarded bronze, the ground ultimate’s podium was the primary Olympic gymnastics podium in historical past to have three Black medalists.
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Chiles joined U.S. teammate Simone Biles, who gained silver, and Brazil’s Rebecca Andrade, who gained gold. The second got here with a signifying picture on the podium, when Biles, 27, and Chiles, 23, bowed on each side of their Brazilian opponent Andrade, 25, who had raised her fists in celebration.
Simone Biles, left, and Jordan Chiles salute Rebeca Andrade through the podium ceremony for the creative gymnastics girls’s ground train on the Paris Olympics on Aug. 5, 2024. (Gabriel Bouys/AFP through Getty Photographs)
Now, Romania is interesting the rating of its personal Sabrina Maneca-Voinea’s ground routine. Maneca-Voinea initially completed fourth behind Barbosu however forward of Chiles after judges delivered their first verdict on Chiles’ rating. However after a evaluation, Maneca-Voinea was bumped from fourth to fifth.
“The best way by which the rating was assessed and the refusal to current the total causes/proofs for the rejection of the attraction submitted inside the time restrict set by the principles severely harms the picture of worldwide gymnastics, however specifically impacts the athlete, even jeopardizing their psychological well being,” Romanian Olympic and Sports activities Committee president Mihai Covaliu stated.
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The Romanian Gymnastics Federation has stated it has submitted requests to the Courtroom of Arbitration for Sport.
“Conscious of the detrimental influence on Ana Maria Barbosu and Sabrina Maneca-Voinea, the Romanian Gymnastics Federation goals to appropriate the errors made by the judges and to revive the rights of our athletes,” the federation stated.
Ana Barbosu performs through the girls’s ground train ultimate on the Paris Olympics on Aug. 5, 2024. (Mehmet Murat Onel/Anadolu through Getty Photographs)
In the meantime, Romanian Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu stated Tuesday he’ll boycott the Paris Olympics’ closing ceremony over the scoring determination.
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“I made a decision to not attend the closing ceremony of the Paris Olympics, following the scandalous state of affairs within the gymnastics, the place our athletes had been handled in a fully dishonorable method,” Ciolacu stated in a Fb put up. “To withdraw a medal earned for trustworthy work on the premise of an attraction… is completely unacceptable!”
Ciolacu added that Romania would nonetheless honor Barbosu and Maneca-Voinea as Olympic medalists, with each being rewarded with medal prize cash.
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