It wasn’t that long ago that the US women’s gymnastics team was a force to be reckoned with. Be it the Olympics or World Championships, Team USA would always emerge as the top two, with the likes of Simone Biles and co. leading the way. Take, for example, the Rio Olympics, the Paris Olympics, and the subsequent world championships. Sadly, those days of dominance are looking like a distant past at the moment. In the recently concluded world championships in Jakarta, Indonesia, Team USA women had just two medals to their name.

For Team USA, Leanne Wong had Olympic experience, though she’d only traveled to Tokyo and Paris as an alternate. And as expected, Wong looked well on course to clinch her all-around gold. However, what has now become a controversial decision from the judges saw Russia

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