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The most controversial Olympics moment came down to four seconds
How the fate of Jordan Chiles’ first solo medal came down to inquiries and appeals
This had the feel of a fishing expedition, of trying different tacks to find one that would give Romania the bronze medal they felt that they had earned, one way or the other; it didn’t even matter which of the two Romanian gymnasts went home with the bronze.And this gambit worked. In the CAS proceedings, Donatella Sacchi, the president of the women’s technical committee, said that when the inquiry was inputted, she received a notification on her tablet alerting her to it so she and the rest of the Superior Jury could begin the review. What was made clear in the testimony in front of the ad hoc tribunal was that there was actually no way for FIG to record the exact time that a verbal inquiry was submitted; the only thing the system, Omega or otherwise, can tell us is when it was manually inputted by an official.
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