Jordan Chiles medal inquiry: USA Gymnastics says arbitration panel won't reconsider decision

This should never have happened in the first place. Team USA really will resort to dirty tactics.

In true Olympic spirit, for exceptional cases like this the best solution in my opinion is to award two bronze medals

Follow the money! The IOC is inherently corrupt. The arbitration panel was paid off.

Eastern European countries that use to dominate gymnastics before the improvement of drug testing are fuming that Simone Biles has dominated gymnastics to the point she will be considered the best ever. They are naming gymnastics moves after her. Only two more medals away from the most decorated ever!

This should never have happened in the first place. Team USA really will resort to dirty tactics.

What dirty tactics? The gymnastics committee was wrong in their difficulty assessment, and the US was right - that is not in dispute! Not even the Romanians are disputing that

The dispute is whether the challenge happened 4 seconds too late or not

How is challenging a wrong considered a dirty tactic? Isn't that actually good? If a Russian judge got bribed to give an athlete a Perfect 10, and that score was challenged - is that good or bad? (Ok, maybe in Russia, bribing a judge is normal, so who knows if they think that's bad or good)

Yes, this should never have happened in the first place - the gymnastics committee should've had the correct difficulty assessment from the start!

Pukey2Aug. 13 10:00 am JST

This should never have happened in the first place. Team USA really will resort to dirty tactics.

By showing up 4 seconds late with an appeal? Absolutely sickening.

It should never have happened. Any sport that needs a committee to discuss the results in private before showing how each judge scored it is flawed and prone to tampering. Judges need to be held accountable or the judging system needs to be setup so that outliers in the judging are dropped.

Statistically rank judges against all their peers, so only the most accurate make it to the Olympics.

Diving handles this by having 5 or 7 judges with the high and low scores by the 5 or 7 judges dropped. The ranking of each judge is reduced every time their score is outside those that would be retained. Those rankings are available for all to see - just like the actual diver athletes are ranked.

Gymnastics needs to fix their judging.

The US coaches need to have their appeal ready quicker. That's a failure on their part.

There are lots of screw-ups here.

Perhaps the appeal time needs to be adjusted as well. Is 1 minute sufficient? Why not 2 minutes? Why not 90 seconds?

The current rules are known to all. 60 seconds, not 64 seconds. Biles needs to return the medal.

It is heartbreaking, but those are the rules and the US Olympic Gymnastic coaches know this. The appeal of the appeal needs to be rejected. Sometimes life isn't fair. Expecting the rules to be bent isn't fair either.

Both athletes were let down by their sport, their coaches, and the judges involved.