The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) voided an on-floor appeal by Chiles' coach that vaulted her to third, saying the appeal came 4 seconds beyond the 1-minute time limit for scoring inquiries
Do add to it, every other competitor had 4 minutes to initiate a challenge, but since Chiles was last to compete her team only got 1 minute.
Edit: I am sorry. I am incorrect. According to the rules, ref page 44, other competitors have until the next competitor is scored. The last competitor’s coaches have 1 minute to initiate an inquiry into the difficulty score verbally.
After any verbal inquiry is submitted, the coaches then have 4 minutes to submit the written inquiry.
The challenge can only be brought forward after the gymnast’s final score is posted and before the end of the next gymnast’s routine.
Floor routines are a maximum of 90 seconds, plus you figure maybe at least 30 seconds between a final score going up and the next person starting their routine.
Yes, sorry I should’ve been more clear. I had read the assertion that everyone but the last gymnast/group gets 4 minutes and wanted to find if that was the correct amount of time, because that seems grossly unbalanced.
2(ish) minutes is still better than 1. I think when the rule was made they could’ve easily done the math and made it so the last gymnast was given at least 2 minutes.
Do add to it,
every other competitor had 4 minutes to initiate a challenge, but since Chiles was last to compete her team only got 1 minute.Edit: I am sorry. I am incorrect. According to the rules, ref page 44, other competitors have until the next competitor is scored. The last competitor’s coaches have 1 minute to initiate an inquiry into the difficulty score verbally.
After any verbal inquiry is submitted, the coaches then have 4 minutes to submit the written inquiry.
Wait, seriously? That’s absurd. Fuck that. I hope she keeps it.
I’m sorry, I was incorrect. Please see my edit.
I found this article explaining Olympics rules:
Floor routines are a maximum of 90 seconds, plus you figure maybe at least 30 seconds between a final score going up and the next person starting their routine.
Yep, except for the last gymnast to compete, which Chiles was
Yes, sorry I should’ve been more clear. I had read the assertion that everyone but the last gymnast/group gets 4 minutes and wanted to find if that was the correct amount of time, because that seems grossly unbalanced.
2(ish) minutes is still better than 1. I think when the rule was made they could’ve easily done the math and made it so the last gymnast was given at least 2 minutes.