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Romanian gymnast Ana Barbosu broke her silence on Sunday after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) ordered American Jordan Chiles to return her bronze medal.
Barbosu may very well be awarded the bronze medal amid the controversy that adopted the ground train remaining on the Paris Olympics final week. The Center for Arbitration of Sport dominated that the U.S. inquiry into Chiles’ rating was previous the one-minute deadline and dominated that her rating of 13.666 be reinstated, which might drop her to fifth within the rankings – even behind Romanian Sabrina Mancea-Voinea.
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Ana Barbosu of Romania performs through the girls’s ground train remaining on the Olympic Games in Paris on Aug. 5, 2024. (Mehmet Murat Onel/Anadolu by way of Getty Images)
Barbosu’s message got here after the IOC’s dedication however earlier than the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee deliberate to file an enchantment and USA Gymnastics mentioned they’ve proof that the inquiry got here to the judges inside the time-frame twice. Barbosu blamed officers for the drama.
“Sabrina, Jordan, my thoughts are with you. I know what you are feeling because I’ve been through the same. But I know you’ll come back stronger,” she wrote in a put up on Instagram. “I hope from deep of my heart that at the next Olympics, all three of us will share the same podium. That is my true dream.
“The state of affairs wouldn’t have existed if the individuals in cost had revered the regulation. We, as athletes, are to not be blamed, and the hate directed to us is painful. I wished to finish this version of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 within the spirit of Olympism, the true worth of the world.”
Ana Barbosu of Romania performs during the women’s floor exercise final at the Olympic Games in Paris on Aug. 5, 2024. (Daniela Porcelli/Eurasia Sport Images/Getty Images)
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USA Gymnastics said later Sunday it has video evidence showing that the inquiry was on time.
Chiles has not made any comment since learning of the CAS ruling, which led to her taking a social media break.
Meanwhile, Mancea-Voinea, Barbosu and Chiles have all taken criticism online over the whole ordeal.
Romanian gymnastics legend Nadia Comaneci begged people across the world to stop attacking the gymnasts.
Jordan Chiles of Team USA is shown at the Olympic Games in Paris on Aug. 5, 2024. (Naomi Baker/Getty Images)
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“To all of the followers world wide please STOP attacking these younger girls… it’s unacceptable and merciless,” she wrote on X.
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