Paris 2024 Olympics thread (the opening ceremony is Friday) on NBC/USA network/Peacock and other NBC Universal stations.

[bcla]

It has everything to do with decades long issues within gymnastics which is very well known within the sport; this isn't the first time this has been an issue where there's judging problems and not the first time in the Olympics either. If you watched rhythmic gymnastics they also said the same thing and they (the commentators) also were annoyed at how long the judges took, although nearly every team and then when it was individual (enough of them) did an inquiry and the US wasn't even in either one in the finals having failed on the individual to qualify (not sure if they tried for group).

It's an issue with the sport itself and affects athletes from all over. To make the supposed outrage because it's an athlete about the U.S. is hubris at its finest.

There were two other athletes who were also impacted, the fact that they were from the same country, the fact that they were from Romania, really matters not for the crux. People are forgetting they were actually impacted before Chiles was. And if it an athlete from Greece (who say got 3rd like Barbosu) and then Turkiye (who say got 5th like Chiles originally did) just as an example instead there would be an initial interest and then it would fade away over the controversy and I'm not too keen on thinking people would be going to political intrigues either.

Initially a lot of people were outraged over the supposed deduction on the Romanian athlete and felt very unfair for Barbosu (who was the initial person viewed as having the medal stolen from her) suggesting this is why they shouldn't have the results until the time has passed for inquires and all and it wasn't because she was on the Romanian team, it was because she was viewed as an athlete who has the emotional rug pulled out from underneath her (and it was pretty sad watching her reaction going from celebration to heartbreak).

There's good questioning about if there is intended bias in interference but to care more (as in digging around, outrage over giving back the medal, etc) just because it's someone from the U.S. is unfortunate.

At the end of the day these are athletes first and the country they are representing is second; heck we have a person from our metro that represented in gymnastics the Philippines for this Olympics having been an alternate for the U.S. in the past Olympics. I doubt people would have cared about her if this happened...well maybe they might have if they found out she was from the U.S...but doubtful.

I heard it the issue with Chiles was how long they had to lodge the protest - supposedly within a minute. And USA Gymnastics is claiming that they have documentary evidence that they lodged their protest in less than a minute, but others claimed it was maybe 4 seconds too late.

https://crookandchase.iheart.com/fe...ision-to-strip-jordan-chiles-of-bronze-medal/​

USA Gymnastics said it would be providing additional video evidence that the challenge was made within the one-minute deadline requirement.​

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Video evidence “conclusively establishing that Head Coach Cecile Landi’s request to file an inquiry was submitted 47 seconds after the publishing of the score, within the 1-minute deadline required by FIG rule," the organization said.​

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“The video footage provided was not available to USA Gymnastics prior to the tribunal’s decision and thus USAG did not have the opportunity to previously submit it.”​

I certainly remember the controversy in 2004 Olympics over Paul Hamm winning the men's gymnastics all-around, and a mistaken start value for a South Korean gymnast's routine back when they still had a 10 point system. That was apaprently a real mess because they lodged a protest after the competition was over. If they added those points in, it was well after the other competitors would have known if they needed to up their difficulty to contend for gold medal.

 

[White Cat]

I was thinking are all those athletes standing there the whole 3 hours. It took almost an hour to get them in there , than an hour for the rings to go up.

Didn’t like the end with the bands on the beach. Just not my cup of tea. So it seems like it went on forever.

Our Canadian swimmer Summer Mcintosh flew home only to have to go back to carry the Canadian flag in at the closing ceremony.

She did great and made the country proud. But I don’t think she had to go back, wasn’t made to. She probably chose to go back. Wasn’t mandatory.

 

[NAB]

She did great and made the country proud. But I don’t think she had to go back, wasn’t made to. She probably chose to go back. Wasn’t mandatory.

Just too bad they didn’t tell her before she went home. I’m sure she didn’t have to and wanted to carry the flag.

 

[Dead2009]

Turned on Peacock, the Olympics section is still there lol. It's under sports and above WWE.