ATHENS -- The Canadian Olympic Committee is weighing in on the judging irregularities in gymnastics that cost Kyle Shewfelt a bronze medal.

After meeting with Gymnastics Canada president and CEO Jean-Paul Caron yesterday, the COC sent a letter to the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) outlining the facts surrounding the vault competition on Monday and urging officials to investigate and explain how the judges came up with the marks they did.

The move came after Caron got a letter from FIG technical director Adrian Stoica yesterday that did little to explain how Romania's Marian Dragulescu bumped Shewfelt from the podium despite a botched final vault that should have generated massive technical deductions.

"We received a response from Adrian Stoica and it's incomplete," said Caron, whose initial protest was rejected by the Romanian technical director.

"It's not a question of appeal - we can't appeal another gymnast.

"Our only avenue is to complain and to have it looked at and corrected."

Russian and Korean gymnastics officials have lodged similar complaints over questionable judging, and the fans at Olympic Indoor Hall staged a protest of their own Monday, following shockingly low marks for a Russian routine that saw the crowd stop the competition by booing for almost 10 minutes.

"We're collectively trying to put pressure on FIG to make changes," Caron said. "We want them to acknowledge a mistake was made and then they'll have to deal with the consequences of that."