Surya Kapu, 13, misspelled “leucovorin,” but his family successfully argued that Scripps omitted details when he asked a question about the word’s roots.
Surya Kapu, 13, from South Jordan, Utah, competes during the Scripps National Spelling Bee, Wednesday, June 1, 2022, in Oxon Hill, Md. field after successfully appealing that he was denied relevant root information about a word.
Scripps said in a statement its judges met for roughly two hours before deciding late Wednesday night to reinstate Surya.
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