USA Gymnastics officials say an arbitration panel won’t reconsider a decision asking gymnast Jordan Chiles to return the bronze medal she won at the Paris Olympics
Well the Romanian Committee submitted the appeal and CAS would not have opened an investigation without evidence? They may not have used that evidence in their official ruling but there was almost certainly evidence provided by Romania to file the appeal. You can’t just file appeals willy nilly
Yes, that’s what I meant but maybe I didn’t phrase it correctly. They provided some evidence they gathered but it was not used to determine the verdict. In fact, the evidence they gathered pointed to 1m24s having passed, most likely because they had no way of knowing exactly when the judge registered the inquiry. But TAS then checked their internal timekeeping and discovered it was in fact 1m4s.
Well the Romanian Committee submitted the appeal and CAS would not have opened an investigation without evidence? They may not have used that evidence in their official ruling but there was almost certainly evidence provided by Romania to file the appeal. You can’t just file appeals willy nilly
Yes, that’s what I meant but maybe I didn’t phrase it correctly. They provided some evidence they gathered but it was not used to determine the verdict. In fact, the evidence they gathered pointed to 1m24s having passed, most likely because they had no way of knowing exactly when the judge registered the inquiry. But TAS then checked their internal timekeeping and discovered it was in fact 1m4s.