From what I’ve seen online, her and her husband are in charge of the body that held the qualifiers, and they were put in charge by the ballroom dance-sport body because they likely didn’t want to deal with it.
Qualifiers were apparently barely advertised and it basically was ended up being a closed invitational
Now how much of the above is true I’m not sure, but I’ve seen the main points repeated a few times.
Regardless, it was a disgraceful performance that turned our best Olympics (particularly outside of the water) into a meme, all to help some narcissistic “academic” gain some attention and add another angle to her bullshit degree of ‘I was prejudiced against on the biggest stage in the world because I’m a white woman’