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USAG isn’t dropping this and I am glad to see it. The last they can do is stand and fight for one their gymnasts given the failures of the past.

Favorite moments: 1. Simone Biles. Everything Biles. And Suni Lee as well. The women’s gymnastics events were great except for one thing. 2. Janja Garnbret winning her second gold in climbing and Brooke Raboutou as the silver medalist. Wholesome friendships in climbing. 3. The star making turn of Pommel Horse Guy, who is the sweetest person.

Christine Brennan says a resolution to this mess could come as early as today. Which to me is an indication that this is an out of court resolution/compromise. Brennan is extremely well-connected, as anyone who is a figure skating fan knows.

And with this CAS current ruling Sabrina still gets nothing so I guess she’s still quitting then? Ana is the one who has been gracious during this mess. Sabrina definitely has not.

I’m so happy that Romania has become such a stickler for rules! When they lied about Daniela Silivas’ age so she could compete underage they seemed not to care about quibbling over one or two years. How lovely that now that they got away with that with no consequences they are now the self-appointed leaders in following the rules right down to the second.

They literally threw everything at a wall in the hopes that Jordan lost third place and then turned around all wide-eyed “who us? We want everyone to get a medal!”

I certainly hope that everyone enjoys the litigious future of gymnastics especially as the scores are often decided by tenths and in a post-Simone world especially. Lawyers all around the world will certainly enjoy being thrust into the Olympic spotlight for the future.

It’s nice to see the other girls on the team on social media calling out the judges and supporting Jordan. Times sure have changed and so much for the better. I

Now everyone in the gymternet is in full meltdown. And to think we all thought beam was the biggest mess of an event final. This floor final is going down in infamy.

FOUR seconds late. Yes, Romania is being petty. Can you imagine the backlash on Simone if the US were in the position of quibbling over four seconds? Romania can go screw.

Being able to go back and do this shit after the event has ended is complete and total trash. THAT’s what makes the sport a joke in some people’s mind….not subjective scoring. Lots of referee calls in sports can be subjective. But if there’s an error and it skates through….well, with humans in charge that happens. This mess has utterly enraged me. Poor Jordan is taking a social media break and she is obviously devastated. Way to ruin the Olympic experience of someone who is always so positive and supportive. This is on top of the abuse she has received online. Romanian can take that bronze medal and cram it straight up their ass. Ana isn’t even the problem….she was extremely gracious. But many others tossed gasoline on this fire and can rot for all I care.

And the queen wins again. What an amazing athletes Janja is. And Congrats to Brooke Raboutou! Also Ai MOri is just amazing at lead but Jessie Pilz really surprised me with her epic performance today.

Not to get too into the weeds but she absolutely did rally herself. She came back in that compulsories meet to make the all-around and edge out Kerri Strug. Her dead-eyed floor was part of the rally, believe it or not. Many people forget Kim’s fall off beam in compulsories was not what killed her medal chances. Then in the all-around she shot herself in the foot by flying out of bounds on one of her passes…maybe the last one. Another exciting double back. Then she started making mistake after mistake especially on beam and was never in contention.

The men’s’ boulder and lead event finals were fantastic. I expected Anraku to win as did most everyone and was so happy for Toby although sad for Colin. He had an incredible boulder round for someone who considers himself a lead specialist. I’m so lonely in here with my popcorn loving the climbing. It’s amazing to watch and very easy to follow for those who don’t climb. I find it so interesting that everyone in Tokyo despised the format and hoped to improve their standings when speed wasn’t part of the equation. But Jacob Schubert finished third in Tokyo and third here, Duffy was fourth in Tokyo and fourth here and Ondra was sixth in Tokyo and sixth here. Things didn’t really change for them.

On the contrary I was deeply deeply entertained by it. it was like an SNL skit.