I still don’t understand what happened. Something about something happening 4 seconds late? But why was her medal challenged in the first place?
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The scoring for her floor routine initially put her in 4th place. Her coach felt that her floor routine was improperly judged and submitted an inquiry (apparently, a pretty standard practice), which was successful and raised her score enough to put her into 3rd for the bronze medal.
The Romanian team filed an appeal, saying the inquiry was submitted four seconds past the one-minute deadline for submitting the inquiry. USA Gymnastics says they have video showing it was submitted at 47 seconds, but the Court of Arbitration of Sport said they consider the matter closed and would not reevaluate the situation.
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