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2024 Olympics: Gymnast Ana Barbosu Taking Social Media Break After Scoring Controversy
View Date:2024-12-23 22:26:51
Gymnast Ana Barbosu is heading offline.
After the Romanian gymnast found herself at the center of attention at the 2024 Paris Olympics after a change to the final score of Team USA’s Jordan Chiles’ floor event bumped her off the winner’s podium, she announced she’s pressing mute on the noise.
“Thank you everyone for the support messages!” Ana wrote in English on her August 7 Instagram Story over a photo of the Olympic rings in Paris at sunset, “I will take a break from the social media.”
She added in Romanian, alongside a smiling emoji, “For those who know me, you have my number.”
This is the second time the 18-year-old has shared a social media message following her medal loss, the first echoing her feelings of gratitude. "Thank you to everyone who encouraged me,” she wrote Aug. 5, “before, during, and after the competition."
At the time, she also reposted a Story from retired Romanian gymnast Sandra Izbasa-Bianca cheering her on.
"I hear more vividly than ever the words that the coaches repeated to us almost daily in the training room," Sandra wrote in Romanian. "'You, as Romanians, must be more than perfect in order not to leave room for interpretations!' And here, it proves itself once again! Girls, head up and back straight! Keep believing in your dreams! Go Romania!"
The gymnastics individual final events on August 5, ended in a dramatic fashion after a last-minute inquiry into Jordan’s floor score resulted in a 0.1 addition.
In this case, Jordan’s team felt she executed a tour jeté with a full turn better than the judges marked her—they’d scored her a 5.8 in difficulty rather than the hoped-for 5.9.
But while coaches can’t appeal execution scores, they can appeal difficulty ratings, and Jordan’s coaches submitted an inquiry on her behalf—and the judges ultimately agreed.
The result not only changed Jordan’s score from a 13.666 to a 13.766—it also changed the podium results. Whereas Ana had thought she’d landed in the bronze position, behind fellow Team USA member Simone Biles and Brazil’s Rebeca Andrade, she suddenly found herself bumped to fourth place.
But while the result was understandably disappointing, as Olympic gymnast Laurie Hernandez shared during NBC’s broadcast, “That’s why inquiries happen. Sometimes, they do miss it, and they’re able to go back and double check.”
Breaking down into tears after seeing the adjusted scoreboard, Jordan later spoke to the emotional moment.
“I just wanted to come out and do the best I could,” she told cameras following the medal ceremony. “I have no words—I’m just very proud of myself.”
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