Romanian Gymnast Ana Barbosu Officially Awarded Olympic Bronze Medal After Jordan Chiles Controversy
Ana Barbosu, a Romanian gymnast, became once awarded the Olympic bronze medal after it became once stripped from American gymnast Jordan Chiles.
The medal is on the hump.
Following the controversial resolution to strip gymnast Jordan Chiles of her bronze Olympic medal by the Global Olympics Committee, Romanian gymnast Ana Barbosu has officially been awarded the prize.
At a ceremony in Bucharest, Romania, on Aug. 16, Barbosu got the medal, posing for photos with the Paris Olympics trophy, which she earned for her ground routine, round her neck. But for the 18 300 and sixty five days broken-down, the moment became once bittersweet.
“I will’t support but take into epic Sabrina [Maneca-Voinea] and Jordan correct now,” Barbosu acknowledged on the ceremony. “It’s a annoying eventualities for us, with so many uncertainties and overwhelming feelings. I’m hoping all people understands that we grasp now no longer finished one thing incorrect on the Olympics.”
The trajectory of this particular medal has been complex to dispute the least. The Aug. 5 tournament created confusion when it came time for the competing gymnasts to be scored. At the time, Chiles’ coach Cecile Landi submitted an inquiry that led to the 23-300 and sixty five days-broken-down’s net being raised from 13.666 to 13.766—a distinction that took her from fifth remark to third, over each and each Barbosu and Maneca-Voineau.
Nonetheless, the Swiss-based mostly fully mostly Court of Arbitration for Sport later dominated to invalidate an inquiry from the U.S. athlete's coach, citing that the coach submitted the inquiry four seconds after the one-minute allotment. The Global Gymnastics Federation then modified the rankings to raise Romania's Barbosu to the No. 3 remark.
The charm from the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee in desire of Chiles’ bronze obtain—her first particular person Olympic honor—became once rejected.
“We firmly assume that Jordan rightfully earned the bronze medal,” the community acknowledged in a notify Aug. 11, consistent with more than one shops, “and there grasp been serious errors in each and each the preliminary scoring by the Global Gymnastics Federation (FIG) and the next CAS charm route of that ought to be addressed.”
The USOPC, who moreover acknowledged they tried to post video proof that Candi had been within the minute label when submitting her inquiry, continued, “The preliminary error came about within the scoring by FIG, and the second error became once for the duration of the CAS charm route of, the set the USOPC became once no longer given sufficient time or see to successfully bother the resolution. As a consequence, we weren’t well represented or afforded the chance to exclaim our case comprehensively.”
Chiles moreover spoke out in a notify, noting she became once “overwhelmed” by the toughen she has got amidst the turn of events.
“I even grasp no words,” she acknowledged of the lack of her bronze medal. “This resolution feels unjust and is derived as a foremost blow, no longer correct to me, but to all individuals who has championed my scurry. To add to the heartbreak, the unprompted racially driven assaults on social media are incorrect and extremely hurtful.”
Calling this time, “one in all basically the most hard moments” in her profession, Chiles vowed to “make every effort to ascertain that that justice is finished.”
The battle over the bronze medal in females's gymnastics isn't the single controversy to reach out of the Paris Olympics. Be taught on for more.
Jordan Chiles Medal Controversy
After the U.S. gymnast received bronze within the females's gymnastics particular person ground exclaim final, the Romanian Gymnastics Federation and Romanian finalists Ana Maria Barbosu and Sabrina Maneca-Voinea, who came in fourth and fifth remark, filed an charm with the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
The Romanian aspect argued that an inquiry that Chiles' coach had submitted on the opponents that had led to the athlete's net to be raised by 0.1 of a point set aside no longer grasp been granted in consequence of it became once submitted four seconds previous a one-minute closing date.
The court agreed and dominated that the U.S. athlete's preliminary net of 13.666 would be reinstated, a resolution moreover adopted later by the Global Gymnastics Federation, which acknowledged in a notify that it had modified the rankings to set Barbosu in third remark.
The Global Olympics Committee then launched that it “will reallocate the bronze medal to Ana Barbosu (Romania),” alongside with, “We’re enthusiastic with the NOC of Romania to discuss the reallocation ceremony and with USOPC relating to the return of the bronze medal.”
The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee says it plans to charm the resolution.
Canada Boots Ladies's Soccer Coach
The 2024 Olympics had barely begun when Bev Priestman, head coach of the Canadian females's soccer team, became once eradicated from her put up by Canada Soccer after her staff became once accused of the exclaim of drones to head searching for on the New Zealand team sooner than their community stage match.
“Additional recordsdata has reach to our attention relating to old drone exclaim against opponents, predating the Paris 2024 Olympic Games,” Canada Soccer CEO and commonplace secretary Kevin Blue acknowledged in a July 25 notify explaining the resolution. “In light of these unique revelations, Canada Soccer has made the resolution to slump…Bev Priestman for the remainder of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, and except the completion of our only within the near previous launched self sustaining exterior review.”
Priestman apologized, announcing in a notify, “I’m fully heartbroken for the gamers, and I would desire to advise regret from the bottom of my heart for the impact this difficulty has had on all of them.”
The team, which received gold in Tokyo, is “a community of these that care very worthy about sportsmanship and integrity,” she continued. “As the chief of the team on the topic, I are attempting to rob accountability, and I idea to fully co-operate with the [Canadian Soccer Association] investigation.”
South Korea Flawed for North Korea All the method by the Opening Ceremony
As the boat carrying athletes from South Korea came into peep for the duration of the July 26 Opening Ceremony, they grasp been incorrectly launched in each and each French and English as being from the Democratic Folks's Republic of Korea—which is North Korea.
South Korea, meanwhile, is the Republic of Korea.
In a July 27 notify, the Global Olympic Committee renowned, “We deeply advise regret for the mistake that came about when introducing the Korean team for the duration of the Opening Ceremony broadcast.”
IOC President Thomas Bach on the total diagnosed as South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol to advise regret, per the manager government's remark of job, which relayed that Yoon really helpful Bach the parents of South Korea grasp been “very shocked and embarrassed” by the mistake. An IOC spokesperson known as the error an “operational mistake” that became once “clearly deeply regrettable.”
Parade exclaim is made up our minds alphabetically consistent with the host nation's language—minus Greece, which constantly goes first because the dwelling of the first Olympics, and the host nation goes final. South Korea became once the Forty eighth country within the Parade of Nations, whereas North Korea became once 153rd.
The Incorrect More or much less Splash
British commentator Bob Ballard became once pulled from Eurostar's Olympics protection for making a commentary that became once widely derided as sexist after Australian swimmers Mollie O'Callaghan, Shayna Jack, Emma McKeon and Meg Harris received gold within the 4×100-meter freestyle relay.
“Effectively, the females correct ending off,” Ballard acknowledged following the bustle. “what females are love…striking round, doing their makeup.”
His co-commentator Lizzie Simmonds replied, “Nasty, Bob. About a of the boys are doing that as successfully.”
Calling his comment “gruesome,” Eurostar acknowledged in a July 29 notify Ballard had been eradicated with “instantaneous elevate out” from additional protection.
The mature sportscaster promptly apologized.
“The feedback I made for the duration of the Australian freestyle relay victory ceremony on Saturday grasp led to some offence,” he wrote on X. “It became once never my method to upset or belittle somebody and, if I did, I apologise. I’m a huge recommend of females’s sport.”
A Rumor That Went Off the Deep Extinguish
After hypothesis that a too-shallow pool inner La Defense Enviornment became once accountable for slower-than-expected cases in swimming, the athletes torpedoed the foundation that the water wasn't deep ample to break records.
“I mediate it's fully a tale,” Crew USA's Regan Smith, who swam away from Paris with 5 medals, really helpful NBCOlympics.com after she and Gretchen Walsh, Lilly King and Torri Huske space a brand unique world legend within the females's 4×100-meter medley. “I mediate on the initiate folks grasp been very attentive to [the lack of new records]… So, I mediate that led to some chatter, love, 'Oh, is it the pool that's doing this?' But I mediate because the meet went on, folks got used to it, and then I mediate they got more cosy with it, and then we began seeing some surely instant swims.”
Added four-time medalist Walsh, “I mediate worthy of what the Olympics is, and what it represents, makes any pool that it's at surely feel more or much less behind. On epic of it’s also possible to simply grasp so worthy rigidity in your self that it is some distance onerous at your 100 percent simplest.”
Swimmer Despatched Home for “Indiscipline”
Brazilian swimmer Ana Carolina Vieira became once sent dwelling after, consistent with the Brazilian Olympic Committee, she dedicated two “acts of indiscipline”: She left the Olympic Village with boyfriend/teammate Gabriel Santos with out permission, the BOC acknowledged, after acting “in a disrespectful and aggressive system” consistent with a “technical resolution made by the Brazilian Swimming Crew committee” relating to the 4x100m freestyle relay.
In a video titled “How a verbal change failure destroyed my Olympic dream,” Vieira lamented what came about but acknowledged, “every thing is going to be solved on the superb time.”
One other Swimmer Kicked Out for “Depraved Atmosphere”
The Paraguayan Olympic Committee asked swimmer Luana Alonso to leave the Games, alleging in a notify that she had created an “gruesome ambiance on the Heart of Crew Paraguay.”
“We thank her for persevering with as really helpful,” the notify continued, “as it became once of her have free will that she didn’t spend the night time within the Athletes' Village.”
The Southern Methodist University student had apparently already returned to Texas when she wrote on Instagram Myth (translated from Spanish) Aug. 5, “I correct wanted to make it determined that I became once never eradicated or expelled from anywhere, close spreading faux recordsdata. I don’t are attempting to give any notify but I’m no longer going to let lies have an effect on me either.”
MyKayla Skinner vs. Simone Biles
Simone Biles had already let it be diagnosed what she idea to be Tokyo teammate MyKayla Skinner's criticism of the U.S. gymnastics team chosen to head to Paris—and Skinner had apologized for announcing in a since-deleted video that “the flexibility and the depth correct isn't love what it used to be” and that “clearly quite a pair of girls don't work as onerous.”
But after the 2024 squad received team gold, Biles captioned a photograph of the athletes, “Lack of capacity, slothful, olympic champions”—an obvious jab at Skinner's authentic comment.
On Aug. 6, Skinner reiterated in an Instagram video that she had “poorly” articulated her authentic point. But, she added, the cyberbullying she and her family had been topic to—fallout from her cyberfeud with Biles—had gotten out of hand.
She pleaded with the seven-time gold medalist “to thrill set a with regards to this. Please set a question to your followers to close.”
Beam In a Microscopic Noise, Please
Neither Biles nor Suni Lee medaled in beam this 300 and sixty five days after each and each gymnasts fell off the equipment for the duration of their final routines.
Afterward, Biles commented on the surprisingly aloof atmosphere for the duration of their penultimate tournament in Paris.
“It became once surely outlandish and awkward,” the athlete, who earned bronze on beam in Tokyo, really helpful the Related Press. “We've asked several cases if we can grasp some music, or some background noise. I'm no longer surely determined what came about there, but yeah, no longer our favourite. None of us cherished it.”
Consistent with the GOAT's criticism, an Global Gymnastics Federation acknowledged the ambiance became once “fragment of the sport presentation idea at Paris 2024.”
Lee renowned that “the rigidity became once positively on” and “quite a pair of folks grasp been positively feeling it.”
She questioned if it became once so aloof the nearby photographers would possibly also hear her respiratory.
“It adds to the stress,” Lee acknowledged, “correct in consequence of it’s comparable to you, yes, you're the single one up there. So I became once feeling the rigidity.”
Gymnastics Scoring Shocker
Jordan Chiles apparently finished out of the running for a medal when she finished her ground exclaim final routine and got a net of 13.666, Romania's Ana Barbosu sooner than her in third remark with a net of 13.700.
But after Crew USA filed a net inquiry on Chiles' behalf and her performance became once additional reviewed by the judges, her initiate fee became once elevated by one-tenth of a point. As a consequence, her net became once subsequently bumped as a lot as 13.766. Which method, she got the bronze and Barbosu—who became once already waving her country's flag in celebration—left the field in tears.
Afterward, Barbosu posted a video of herself competing and wrote, “Thank you to all individuals who encouraged me sooner than, for the duration of, and after the opponents.”
5,000 Meters Scoring Shocker
Medal adjustments haven't been confined to the gymnastics enviornment.
Kenyan runner Faith Kipyegon became once on the initiate disqualified for seeming to jostle Gudaf Tsegay of Ethiopia for the duration of the females's 5,000 meters on the Stade de France on Aug. 5, negating her second-remark attain.
“I even grasp never seen one thing love that, in an Olympic final that went on for see you later,” commentator Kara Goucher, a two-time Olympian, acknowledged on the printed, noting that the two females moreover perceived to alternate heated words. “You peep slightly bit of elbow, you peep slightly bit of frustration, but that became once many strides and scolding.”
It wasn't except the wee hours of Aug. 6 that Kipyegon chanced on out her silver medal had been reinstated. The Olympic Jury of Appeal dominated that, whereas there had been “foremost contact” between her and Tsegay, “the incident didn’t warrant a disqualification.”
With that, Italy's Nadia Battocletti—the fourth-remark finisher bumped into bronze set by the disqualification—became once re-relegated to fourth.
Swimming Disqualifications That Stood
Two athletes' hopes of a medal grasp been dashed once they unwittingly broke rules mid-swim, which method they didn't even know they grasp been out except they finished their races.
Grand Britain's Luke Greenbank finished first in his 200-meter backstroke heat but became once disqualified for staying underwater for additional than the maximum 15 meters after first diving in.
“Glean or lose I’ve constantly been my have harshest critic but every now and again you definately’ve correct got to rob it as it comes,” he wrote on Instagram Aug. 1. “I will rob pleasure within the fact that I do know I became once in gigantic shape coming into these video games after a annoying few years, but this is able to also simply motivate me to reach serve stronger.”
A technical error moreover knocked Alex Walsh off the 200-meter particular person medley podium after she finished within the bronze set. As she approached the wall for the duration of the final leg of her backstroke, she made an unlawful turn by initiating to flip misplaced sooner than she tapped the wall and launched into her breaststroke.
“Silent proud,” Walsh wrote on Instagram Aug. 6, thanking her supporters a pair of days after the bustle. “No topic the DQ, this Olympics has been an expertise that has left me feeling exclusively happy and fulfilled, and I will devour that forever. No topic every thing, every thing happens for a reason and there is to this point more to be brooding about for me in this sport.”
One thing within the Water?
No topic $1.53 billion having been budgeted to neat up the perennially polluted Seine, reviews swirled for months main as a lot as the Paris Games about whether it would be safe ample to withhold the swimming leg of the triathlons and the ten-kilometer marathons within the river.
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo went for a swim July 17 and declared France's most excellent physique of water correct to head—but it's been more or much less a s–t demonstrate for the reason that Olympics began.
On Monday, July 29, swims for the triathletes to familiarize themselves with the Seine grasp been canceled, officials citing unhappy water quality levels attributable to bustle-off from the weekend's heavy rains (which noticeably began for the duration of the July 26 Opening Ceremony).
The men's triathlon became once then postponed a day and rescheduled to notice the females's tournament on July 31 after organizers deemed bacteria levels too excessive for a obtain swim.
Each and each triathlons grasp been held July 31, day-of checks discovering that E. coli and intestinal enterococci levels grasp been low ample to qualify the water as “fabulous quality,” per the European Union's Bathing Water Directive.
But hypothesis that the water wasn't safe resumed after two athletes who competed within the triathlon dropped out of the mixed-relay opponents, citing respective illnesses (neither of which grasp been definitively linked to swimming within the Seine).
The females's and men's 10km are quiet scheduled for Aug. 8 and 9, but practices grasp been canceled Aug. 6 after checks confirmed bacteria levels grasp been all another time too excessive.
Australian Field Hockey Player Arrested
Australian topic hockey participant Tom Craig publicly apologized after being arrested for attempting to amass cocaine in Paris two days after the team's quarterfinal loss to the Netherlands.
“I would within the initiate desire to advise regret for what has came about over the final 24 hours,” he acknowledged at an Aug. 7 press conference, per the Australian Related Press. “My actions are my have and by no method replicate the values of my family, my teammates, my guests, the sport and the Australian Olympic team. I even grasp embarrassed you all and I'm surely sorry.”
In a notify, an Australian Olympic Committee legitimate known as Tom “a correct person that had made a unhappy resolution” and acknowledged the team would toughen him if he vital support. But, the legitimate added, the athlete became once losing all of his final Olympic privileges, effective straight away.
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