Gymnast gets stripped
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CrystalRaindrops — 1 year ago(August 12, 2024 04:04 AM)
Stripped and penalized!
Who is better off today, now that the International Olympic Committee has stripped U.S. gymnast Jordan Chiles of her bronze medal in the women’s floor exercise and reallocated it to Romania’s Ana Barbosu because of a judging error? Certainly not Chiles, who after doing nothing wrong finds herself penalized.
Not Barbosu, who was the subject of one of the most excruciating moments of these Olympics when she realized midway through her celebration of third place that she had taken fourth and—presumably not wishing to inflict the same pain on another—asked to share bronze. Not the Olympics themselves, which will now end the most successful Games in recent memory with this unnecessary uproar. And not the public, which should want—as the authorities should want—to get it right.
This is not right.
After Chiles completed her routine to close out the floor exercise event final Aug. 5, the scoreboard read: Brazil’s Rebeca Andrade in first, with 14.166 points; the U.S.’s Simone Biles in second, with 14.133; Ana Barbosu in third, with 13.700; her teammate Sabrina Maneca-Voinea in fourth, with the same score but a lower execution score; and Chiles in fifth, with 13.666. Barbosu wrapped herself in a Romanian flag and surged onto the floor to celebrate. But the U.S. had submitted a scoring inquiry into Chiles’s score, believing her difficulty was a tenth of a point higher than she’d been credited.
The judges accepted the inquiry. The scoreboard reflected that Chiles was now in third. Barbosu turned, saw it, dropped the flag, burst into tears and clutched her stomach, almost doubling over. Meanwhile, Chiles streaked past in celebration. The juxtaposition was agonizing, perhaps the worst image of an otherwise resplendent gymnastics competition.
So, naturally, officials have recreated it in the reverse. The day after the final, Romania appealed the decision to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), saying that the inquiry was submitted late; Maneca-Voinea was incorrectly assessed a one-tenth deduction; and all three athletes should share bronze. CAS decided on Saturday to uphold only the first request: The U.S. inquiry came four seconds late. The original scores, and their rankings, would be restored. CAS added that it was up to the International Gymnastics Federation and the IOC to enforce the ruling, which they announced on Sunday that they would do. The IOC said in a statement that it had asked Chiles to return her medal.
The rule itself is preposterous: All gymnasts have close to four minutes (the length of the next gymnast’s routine) to submit an inquiry except the last gymnast of a rotation, who has one minute? Whose idea was that? But the rule is the rule, so fine. The issue now is that the judges accepted the inquiry at the time. Presumably they have clocks; Omega’s branding is all over this place. Once the judges accepted an inquiry, any subsequent arguing about it should not penalize the person who submitted it.
And most of all: The judges said the inquiry was correct. They had made a mistake when calculating Chiles’s difficulty score. So in effect CAS and the FIG and the IOC and the rest of the alphabet soup deciding this have announced that they would prefer the scores be wrong.
If Chiles had been accused of doping or otherwise cheating, it would make sense to take her medal away from her. But all she did was her routine, which officials agreed when given time to think about it merited the third-best score of the competition.
The fix here is obvious: Give them both bronze. (Romania never submitted an inquiry into Maneca-Voinea’s score, so just about everyone agrees she is out of luck here.) Would either Chiles or Barbosu feel cheated by such an outcome? On the contrary, they asked for it. As always, the athletes are the ones redeeming the entire corrupt enterprise: After Chiles won bronze in real time, she suggested to Biles that they bow to Andrade on the podium, creating an indelible image of Olympic spirit that all these acronyms celebrated then, and should study now.
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WarrenPeace — 1 year ago(August 12, 2024 04:21 AM)
Didn't we talk about them when the revival shows first came on?
Yeah, I think that was another show where we did.
I have been catching up on the recent ones which I finally discovered!
Like where they think a raccoon is a dog and try to breed it with dogs?
Or where they get into a box thinking they are mailing themselves to Florida for
Spring Break but get picked up by a garbage truck that dumps them in landfill and they think they at a Florida beach anyway?
They become hoarders and fill up their house with garbage thinking that is the way to score with chicks.
Their stupidity knows no bounds and makes for our funny entertainment!
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CrystalRaindrops — 1 year ago(August 12, 2024 04:25 AM)
We probably did!
I haven't seen the most recent ones, but they sound funny. I remember one of the funniest parts of the revived episodes (years ago) was when they set up their own massage stand in a mall. -
WarrenPeace — 1 year ago(August 12, 2024 04:30 AM)
It is on Wens nights on Comedy Central 9-10 CST
If you have a DVR perhaps you could watch them OnDemand also on CC.
Or stream it if you do such a thing.
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WarrenPeace — 1 year ago(August 12, 2024 04:56 AM)
They should have break dancing on there.
I didn't watch much of the Limpics but it puts a show like AGT to shame!
LOL
I dunno if I ever said this before but I figure those acts are not that good when they think that will give them their big break when it never really does.
If they were that good then an agent or producer would have picked them up by now and already have given them a break.
I mean, those that do the same types of acts are already famous without having to go through a talent TV show to get there because they are better at their craft or act.
AGT is where the rejected ones go.
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CrystalRaindrops — 1 year ago(August 12, 2024 05:08 AM)
I wonder if they've had breakdancers on AGT before. They've had other dancing, so maybe.
There could be a lot of undiscovered talent out there, but most "popular" contestants probably fade from the public eye after a while. They might do well locally, like, "See so and so from AGT, from this local town, at next week's county fair." That's after they got so popular they thought they'd finally be nationally or internationally famous. -
WarrenPeace — 1 year ago(August 12, 2024 05:12 AM)
Yeah, I think I saw that advertised for a magician who was on there performing at a nearby Indian casino?
He wasn't the final winner.
I guess some do manage to make a career touring in small venues or clubs while others, I suspect the majority, go back to working class jobs or college or a different career.
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Schrodinger's Cat walks into a bar, and doesn't. 