A sidebar to the sad, incompetent performance of the Men’s Judges at the Athens Olympics (In my opinion they got the medals wrong on 5 of 6 apparatus and the All Around.) was a surprising letter of reprimand sent to Canadian judge Chris Grabowecky.
Two years after the Olympics, the FIG Appeal Tribunal over-ruled the FIG Executive Committee and the Disciplinary Commission. The Tribunal revoked the warning and, I hope, apologized for the error.
Chris is a friend of mine and I am happy to see his name has been completely cleared.
I continue to have no faith at all in the FIG Men’s Technical Committee under Romanian chairman Adrian Stoica. Expect more problems.
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Are you glad because your buddy got cleared or because you know the details of the case and a reprimand was unjustified? Need more details here to tell what was right. Also, need more details on the complaint about Romanian.
Certainly the reprimand was unjustified and seemingly a complete error.
The letter Chris got originally from FIG did not refer to the Horizontal Bar final, but rather the Floor Exercise preliminaries — where there were no problems nor complaints that I ever heard about.
As for Stoica, I don’t know where to start. The Men’s program has been a disaster I feel since he took charge of MTC.
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