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American gymnast Jordan Chiles could lose her Olympic bronze medal, which she received within the ladies’s flooring train closing.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport dominated that the judging panel on the occasion had improperly granted an inquiry that elevated Chiles’ rating, which moved her into bronze medal place over Romania’s Ana Barbosu. The Switzerland-based court docket dominated that the attraction had been submitted previous the one-minute deadline for inquiries and subsequently shouldn’t have been granted.
Barbosu had initially clinched the bronze medal for flooring on Monday and started celebrating on the mat. But then U.S. coaches appealed to judges over Chiles’ rating, and a evaluate resulted in a 0.1-point enhance, which moved Chiles forward of Barbosu for the bronze medal.
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Simone Biles and Jordan Chiles of Team United States pose with their Paris 2024 Olympic medals following the Artistic Gymnastics Women’s Floor Exercise Final on day ten of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at Bercy Arena on August 5, 2024, in Paris, France. (Naomi Baker/Getty Images)
But the Court of Arbitration has now stated that Chiles ought to have acquired a rating of 13.666 within the occasion, which might’ve positioned her fifth, simply shy of the Olympic podium.
USA Gymnastics and USOPCE stated in an announcement that they had been “devastated” by the ruling.
“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.”
Jordan Chiles, proper, of the United States, reacts to successful the bronze medal as teammate Simone Biles, left, celebrates in the course of the ladies’s creative gymnastics particular person flooring finals at Bercy Arena on the 2024 Summer Olympics, Monday, Aug. 5, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr)
The CAS stated it was as much as the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) to resolve who will get the medal.
Chiles posted a sequence of emotional tales on Instagram Saturday in response to the ruling, together with one which confirmed a sequence of damaged coronary heart emojis, and one other that included her announcement that she can be leaving social media.
“I am taking this time and removing myself from social media for my mental health,” Chiles wrote.
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Chiles teammate Suni Lee criticized the judges who had made the misguided resolution, in her personal Instagram Stories on Saturday.
“All this talk about the athlete, what about the judges?? Completely unacceptable, this is awful and I’m gutted for Jordan,” Lee wrote. “I got your back forever Joe, you have all my flowers and you will always be an Olympic champion.
If Chiles is stripped of her medal, she will become only the third gymnast in history to have an Olympic medal stripped. The other two were China’s Dong Fangxiao and Romania’s Andreea Răducan, both of whom lost their medals from the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
Răducan’s individual all-around gold medal was stripped after testing positive for a banned substance from cold-medicine pills given to her by a team doctor. China’s team all-around bronze was stripped after it was discovered Dong was just 14 years old in Sydney, which is two years too young to compete.
Chiles’ bronze resulted in the floor final’s podium being the first Olympic gymnastics podium in history to have three Black medalists.
Simone Biles (silver), Brazil’s Rebeca Andrade (gold) and the U.S.’ Jordan Chiles (bronze) show sportsmanship during the podium ceremony for the artistic gymnastics women’s floor exercise event of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the Bercy Arena in Paris, on August 5, 2024. (Gabriel Bouys/AFP via Getty Images)
Chiles joined U.S. teammate Simone Biles, who won silver, and Brazil’s Rebecca Andrade, who won gold. The moment came with a signifying image at the podium, when Biles, 27, and Chiles, 23, bowed on both sides of their Brazilian opponent Andrade, 25, who had raised her fists in celebration.
Meanwhile, Barbosu was holding a Romanian flag when she looked up and saw the scoring change on the board. Just then, she dropped the flag, covered her face with her hands and walked away in tears.
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The initial ruling resulted in a wave of backlash. Gymnastics legend Nadia Comaneci condemned the score change on social media, and Romanian Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu said on Tuesday that he will boycott the Paris Olympics’ closing ceremony over the scoring decision.
The Romanian Olympic and Sports Committee announced on Wednesday that it would be appealing the decision.
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