Personally I think it’s wild a competition’s winner can even be appealed if the event is already over. Can you imagine if basketball games were reversed days later because of bad foul call discovered after the fact?
Judgement errors happen by the dozen in every sport, and generally it’s just accepted as an inevitable part of the game. During the competition the judges accepted the inquiry as valid. Whether it was four seconds late or not, how would that any different than any other potential judgement error they made?
If official results are non-binding pending later discovered judge errors, competitions just result to perpetual pissing matches while people argue over who the “real” winner was.
Personally I think it’s wild a competition’s winner can even be appealed if the event is already over. Can you imagine if basketball games were reversed days later because of bad foul call discovered after the fact?
Judgement errors happen by the dozen in every sport, and generally it’s just accepted as an inevitable part of the game. During the competition the judges accepted the inquiry as valid. Whether it was four seconds late or not, how would that any different than any other potential judgement error they made?
If official results are non-binding pending later discovered judge errors, competitions just result to perpetual pissing matches while people argue over who the “real” winner was.