Ana Bărbosu Lost Gymnastics Bronze After U.S. Filed an Appeal
On Monday, Romania ended its participation in artistic gymnastics competitions at the Olympic Games without a medal. In the floor final, Sabrina Maneca Voinea ranked 5th, and Ana Maria Bărbosu ranked 4th, with the same mark, respectively 13,700.
Sabrina Maneca Voinea was initially marked with 13.700 for the floor exercise, but the coaches filed an appeal, but the mark was not changed, finishing in 5th place.
In her turn, Ana Maria Bărbosu finished in 4th place, with 13.700. For a few minutes, she had the bronze medal, but the Americans challenged Jordan Chiles’ score, after which he took 3rd place, with 13,766.
The gold medal went to gymnast Rebeca Andrade (Brazil, 14.166), followed by Simone Biles (USA, 14.133).
9 gymnasts participated in the floor final, after Ana Maria Bărbosu and Rina Kishi (Japan) had the same score in the qualifications – 13,600 and could not be tied.
Also on Monday, on the beam, Sabrina Maneca Voinea was in 8th place, after falling off the apparatus twice.
The floor final was the last women’s since the Paris Olympics, and the gold medal table is: Team – USA, Individual-Compound – Simone Biles (USA), Vault – Simone Biles, Parallel – Kaylia Nemour (Algeria) , beam – Alice D’Amato (Italy) and floor – Rebeca Andrade (Brazil).
The Romanian team returned to the finals after 12 years and ranked 7th.
The multiple Olympic champion Nadia Comăneci declared, on Monday, after the floor final of the artistic gymnastics competition at the 2024 Olympic Games, in which Ana Bărbosu lost the podium following the US appeal, that in the exercise of the athlete Jordan Chiles, the grade of difficulty counted.
“For the American girl, the difficulty grade was important, but you cannot appeal the execution grade. This is the rule,” said the former great gymnast Nadia Comăneci.
After the final, she discussed with the chief referee to understand why Sabrina Voinea’s score was lowered. “I’ll tell you what happened, because I went to the chief referee to understand why this deduction of 0.1 was made to Sabrina Voinea. They said that they have a photo with a small piece of her heel, which was a little out of line. But they did not see it the photo and I understood that in terms of value, difficulty, on the first day it had a difficulty of six, today they gave it a 5.9,” Nadia said.
The honorary president of the Romanian Gymnastics Federation declared that she is proud of the developments of Romanian athletes at the Olympic Games. “But I want to say that I’m proud of these girls who competed fabulously and the floor exercise was fantastic today. I am very happy, I hope that everyone at home was happy to see this final and I hope that these children will continue and motivate today’s generation”, Nadia Comăneci said.
The multiple Olympic champion Ecaterina Szabo also stated on Monday, after the floor final of the artistic gymnastics competition at the 2024 Olympic Games, that maybe the Americans have a better chance, specifying that the Romanian athletes must do exercises of grade 15 to receive a 10.
“We have to be stronger, we have to be better to have a medal, much better. I remember when I was doing gymnastics my coaches would always tell me <>. And so it is, you have to be above them by 10 points to have a medal. Since we are Romanians, maybe the Americans have a better chance, I don’t know what to say. But we have to prepare much more, to be 15, to take 10″, declared the former great Romanian gymnast.
She mentioned that it was ugly” on the part of the referees that they accepted the appeal of the American Jordan Chiles, and to reject the appeal of Sabrina Voinea.
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