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There’s been a lot of confusion and controversy about Jordan Chiles’s bronze medal after the news that the IOC has decided to strip her of her bronze medal after the Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled against her. 

Jordan has been harassed and vilified online and it’s disgusting. It’s even more disgusting because a lot of people don’t actually understand the situation – and it has to do with a matter of seconds: the dispute is over whether or not her coach made the request within the required amount of time to revisit her score. The US Olympic Committee has filed an appeal with receipts that prove that Jordan’s coach did indeed file it in time. Literally, this is about whether or not she was four seconds late, or 13 seconds early! Which, by the way, as her sister pointed out on Instagram… athletes are “stripped” of their medals when they cheat or when they dope, and neither is a factor in this storm. It’s appalling how people have been behaving on social media. (Hollywood Unlocked) 

The Blake Lively fashion parade continued this weekend. She wore a ball gown to the premiere of It Ends With Us in Copenhagen. People aren’t really talking about the fashion the way it’s normally talked about though. Because the whole mystery situation between Blake and Justin Baldoni is overshadowing whatever style moments she’s trying to create with this press tour. (GoFugYourself) 

Elon Musk treated his own child monstrously. But his biographer, Walter Isaacson, attempts to revise that history and whitewash Elon Musk’s vile treatment of his daughter, Vivian Wilson, by glossily writing Elon’s story while rewriting hers. Vivian is not having it – so don’t buy this book. Follow her instead and get her straight from the source. (Pajiba) 

Our Queen of All Feelings, Celine Dion, has made her feelings very, very, very clear on a criminal running for president using her music at his campaign events: cease and desist. We all know she’s a softie but she is not f-cking around here, Celine does not want to be anywhere near this lying piece of sh-t. Take her name out of your mouth, you asshole, how DARE you. (Celebitchy) 

The MTV VMAs were supposed to happen on September 10. But they know they’ll be upstaged by the presidential debate between Madam Vice President Kamala Harris and that criminal. So the date has been changed – but they have confirmed the two pop girls of the summer of 2024. (Uproxx)