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Just days after gymnastics legend Nadia Comaneci criticized judges in Paris for a rating change that gave Jordan Chiles a medal, she is now coming to Chiles’ protection.
A controversial reversal of the rating change from the ladies’s ground train closing was introduced on Saturday, which may finally result in Chiles being stripped of her bronze medal – one which was given to her after judges elevated her rating and denied a medal that was initially to go to Romania’s Ana Barbosu.
Chiles introduced in an Instagram Stories that she can be stepping away from social media for her psychological well being. Her remark sections throughout social media have since been flooded by messages of assist from followers, but additionally a flood of insults from others.
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Jordan Chiles stands within the podium in the course of the Pan Am Games on Oct. 23, 2023, in Santiago, Chile. (Al Bello/Getty Images)
Comaneci begged folks the world over to cease attacking the gymnasts at this yr’s Olympics, utilizing hashtags to tag each Barbosu and Chiles in a publish on X on Saturday.
“To all the fans around the world please STOP attacking these young ladies… it is unacceptable and cruel,” Comaneci wrote.
However, Comaneci’s plea was in response to her personal publish from earlier within the day when she expressed delight in Barbosu, her Romanian teammate Sabrina Maneca-Voinea, who was bumped from fourth to fifth within the ground closing after the primary rating change, and Chiles herself.
The publish went up shortly after information of Chiles’ rating change broke, and included a filter over Barbosu’s image that declared her the bronze medalist.
“Proud of you ladies… you make the sport shine,” Comaneci wrote.
OLYMPIC LEGEND NADIA COMANECI SLAMS JUDGES OVER CONTROVERSIAL SCORE CHANGE IN FLOOR EXERCISE
Nadia Comneci on the crimson carpet prior Laureus World Sports Awards at Palacio De Cibeles on April 22, 2024, in Madrid, Spain. (Jose Breton/Pics Action/NurPhoto through Getty Images)
Comaneci, who received 5 gold medals throughout her Olympics profession and was awarded the primary good 10 in gymnastics historical past on the 1976 Summer Games, beforehand slammed the judges on Monday for making the rating change that left Barbosu in tears and put Chiles on the rostrum.
“I can’t believe we play with athletes mental health and emotions like this… let’s protect them,” Comaneci wrote on X.
At the time, Barbosu was holding a Romanian flag when she seemed up and noticed the scoring change on the board. She then dropped the flag, lined her face together with her fingers and walked away in tears.
Meanwhile, Chiles obtained to hitch U.S. teammate Simone Biles, who received silver, and Brazil’s Rebecca Andrade, who received gold, on the primary all-Black gymnastics podium in Olympic historical past. Biles and Chiles even bowed on each side of their Brazilian opponent Andrade, 25, who had raised her fists in celebration.
Simone Biles, Rebeca Andrade and Jordan Chiles in the course of the podium ceremony for the inventive gymnastics girls’s ground train occasion on the Paris Olympics on Aug. 5, 2024. (Paul Ellis/AFP through Getty Images)
Saturday’s reversal got here when the Court of Arbitration for Sport dominated that the judging panel on the occasion had improperly granted an inquiry that elevated Chiles’ rating. It claimed that the attraction had been submitted previous the one-minute deadline for inquiries and due to this fact mustn’t have been granted.
Later on Saturday, the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) introduced that Chiles’ unique rating of 13.666 was reinstated and she or he was bumped again right down to fifth place, whereas Barbosa jumped again as much as third place with a rating 13.766. The announcement didn’t specify the standing of Chiles’ medal.
On Sunday, the IOC ordered Chiles to return her bronze medal.
USA Gymnastics and USOPCE mentioned in a press release that they have been “devastated” by the ruling.
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“Throughout the appeal process, Jordan has been subject to consistent, utterly baseless and extremely hurtful attacks on social media. No athlete should be subject to such treatment. We condemn the attacks and those who engage, support or instigate them. We commend Jordan for conducting herself with integrity both on and off the competition floor, and we continue to stand by and support her.”
Chiles is simply the third gymnast in historical past to have an Olympic medal stripped. The different two have been China’s Dong Fangxiao and Romania’s Andreea Răducan, each of whom misplaced their medals from the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
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