The Olympic Controversy Between Ana Barbosu & Jordan Chiles: A Complete Analysis
But then, her coaches filed an inquiry on her behalf. According to NBC Olympics “an inquiry” is a verbal contest of a routine score. The written inquiry must be sent before the end the rotation. According to the International Gymnastic Federation, if the gymnast was the last one to compete, a time limit of one minute begins once the scoreboard is displayed. The scoring inquiry concerned a split jump in Chiles routine, called the tourjete full.
“In the team qualification, in the team final, she did not get credit for this skill,” Olympian and NBC gymnastics analyst
John Roethlisberger
said during the broadcast. The judges didn’t give her credit in the initial evaluation. I talked to
Cecile and Laurent Landi, her coaches, and they said, ‘We thought she did it much better here in the final. So we thought we have nothing to lose, let’s put in an inquiry.'”After reviewing Chiles’ routine, the judges accepted the inquiry and credited Chiles 0.1 for the leap, bumping her score up to 13.766 for third place.As a result, Chiles–who burst into happy tears when she saw the results–won bronze. Chiles, who burst into tears when she saw the results, won bronze.
