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Simone Biles and Suni Lee got here to the assist of Jordan Chiles on social media because the American gymnast’s bronze medal win within the flooring train is in limbo.
Chiles could find yourself having to return the Olympic medal after the Center of Arbitration for Sport dominated Saturday that her rating should revert to the unique mark as a result of the U.S. didn’t file an inquiry with judges in time. The International Olympic Committee on Sunday decided that Chiles should return her medal, however USA Gymnastics appealed the ruling, saying it had video proof displaying coaches made the inquiry in time.
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Team USA Simone Biles, left, and Jordan Chiles pose victorious with their medals following the ladies’s flooring train last at Bercy Arena in Paris. (Erick W. Rasco/Sports Illustrated through Getty Images)
As Chiles wrote on her Instagram Stories over the weekend that she was heartbroken over the chaotic state of affairs, Biles and Lee supplied messages of assist.
“Sending you so much love Jordan,” Biles wrote on her Instagram Stories. “Keep your chin up olympic champ! We love you!”
Lee wrote a loving message of assist as effectively and took a swipe at Olympic officers over the debacle.
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Jordan Chiles of the United States competes in the course of the girls’s flooring train last of creative gymnastics on the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Paris on Aug. 5, 2024. (Cao Can/Xinhua through Getty Images)
“All this talk about the athlete, what about the judges?? Completely unacceptable. This is awful and I’m gutted for Jordan,” she wrote. “I got your back forever Jo. (You) have all my flowers and you will ALWAYS be an Olympic champion.”
Team USA wrote on its X account, “Forever THAT girl.”
If Chiles is stripped of her medal, she is going to change into solely the third gymnast in historical past to have an Olympic medal stripped. The different two had been China’s Dong Fangxiao and Romania’s Andreea Răducan, each of whom misplaced their medals from the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
Team USA, from left to proper, Jordan Chiles, Hezly Rivera, Jade Carey, Sunisa Lee and Simone Biles have a good time after profitable the gold medal in the course of the Women’s workforce competitors last at Bercy Arena in Paris. (Eric W. Rasco/Sports Illustrated through Getty Images)
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Răducan’s particular person all-around gold medal was stripped after testing optimistic for a banned substance from cold-medicine capsules given to her by a workforce physician. China’s workforce all-around bronze was stripped after it was found Dong was simply 14 years previous in Sydney, which is 2 years too younger to compete.
Fox News’ Jackson Thompson contributed to this report.
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