Olivia Dunne sounds alarm 'empty seats' in gymnastics, suggests judges' scoring may be part of issue

Olivia Dunne sounded the alarm astir the deficiency of viewership successful women’s gymnastics and suggested that the judges and the scoring strategy whitethorn beryllium to blame.

Dunne fired disconnected an uncharacteristic captious station connected X astir the authorities of the sport. It came as LSU was upset successful an SEC matchup against Arkansas. The Tigers came into the gathering arsenic the No. 2 squad successful the country.

SIGN UP FOR TUBI AND STREAM SUPER BOWL LIX FOR FREE

"I americium sitting present watching NCAA gymnastics and the bare seats are concerning. I attraction profoundly astir the maturation successful women’s sports particularly successful the NCAA," she wrote. "If you privation fans to bask the athletics and summation viewership, you person to look astatine what makes the crowds spell crazy! People recognize what a cleanable 10 is and privation radical who bash things that look large to beryllium rewarded. 

"Too galore deductions taken astatine a judge’s discretion feels the aforesaid arsenic watching a hoops crippled that’s perpetually interrupted with penalties oregon a shot crippled with flags connected each play. At immoderate constituent it feels antagonistic and loses the amusement origin that draws the assemblage in. The fig of questions I americium presently getting from fans astir the scoring is important capable for maine to stock this concern. I emotion the creation and intricacy of gymnastics but let’s get much eyes connected the sport!"

Dunne added that she whitethorn person a "unique" position connected the substance fixed the instrumentality basal she cultivated extracurricular the sport.

CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM

"This is not astir LSU this is astir the sport," she wrote successful a abstracted post. "I’m successful my 5th twelvemonth and I person an assemblage of casual fans truthful possibly I’m successful a unsocial presumption to spot what is happening with fans otherwise than radical conscionable looking astatine attendance numbers. Fans are confused. 

"I besides walk clip raising wealth for pistillate athletes and volition ever advocator for athletes. Making changes that tin interaction the amusement worth volition impact athletes financially arsenic well. Female sports successful the NCAA person to absorption connected gathering assemblage engagement to proceed to get gross enactment for the athletes."

Gymnastics is not precisely the steadiest athletics erstwhile it comes to its judges and points that are scored oregon deducted. The play involving American Olympian Jordan Chiles astatine the Paris Games is simply a bully illustration of that.

Awful Announcing noted that viewership connected TV dropped for the nationalist championships from 2023 to 2024 by much than 100,000.

Follow Fox News Digital’s sports sum connected X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.