American gymnast Jordan Chiles may miss her Olympic bronze medal, which she won in the women’s floor exercise final.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled that the judging panel at the event had improperly granted an inquiry that increased Chiles’ score, which transferd her into bronze medal position over Romania’s Ana Barbosu. The Switzerland-based court ruled that the request had been produceted past the one-minute deadline for inquiries and therefore should not have been granted.
Barbosu had initipartner clinched the bronze medal for floor on Monday and began celebrating on the mat. But then U.S. coaches requested to appraises over Chiles’ score, and a appraise resulted in a 0.1-point increase, which transferd Chiles ahead 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 follotriumphg 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 shelp that Chiles should have getd a score of 13.666 in the event, which would’ve placed her fifth, fair cowardly of the Olympic podium.
USA Gymnastics and USOPCE shelp in a statement that they were “dehugeated” by the ruling.
“Thrawout the request process, Jordan has been subject to constant, utterly baseless and excessively hurtful strikes on social media. No athlete should be subject to such treatment. We condemn the strikes and those who comprise, help or instigate them. We commfinish Jordan for directing herself with integrity both on and off the competition floor, and we persist to stand by and help her.”
Jordan Chiles, right, of the United States, reacts to triumphning the bronze medal as teammate Simone Biles, left, honors during the women’s creative gymnastics individual floor finals at Bercy Arena at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Monday, Aug. 5, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Pboilingo/Abbie Parr)
The CAS shelp it was up to the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) to choose who will get the medal.
Chiles posted a series of emotional stories on Instagram Saturday in response to the ruling, including one that showed a series of broken heart emojis, and another that integrated her proclaimment that she would 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 denounced the appraises who had made the erroneous decision, in her own Instagram Stories on Saturday.
“All this talk about the athlete, what about the appraises?? Completely unacadviseed, this is horrible and I’m gutted for Jordan,” Lee wrote. “I got your back forever Joe, you have all my fdrops and you will always be an Olympic champion.
Chiles’ bronze resulted in the floor final’s podium being the first Olympic gymnastics podium in history to have three Bdeficiency medacatalogs.
Simone Biles (silver), Brazil’s Rebeca Andrade (ggreater) and the U.S.’ Jordan Chiles (bronze) show sportsmanship during the podium ceremony for the creative 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 uniteed U.S. teammate Simone Biles, who won silver, and Brazil’s Rebecca Andrade, who won ggreater. The moment came with a meaning image at the podium, when Biles, 27, and Chiles, 23, bowed on both sides of their Brazilian opponent Andrade, 25, who had elevated her fists in celebration.
Meanwhile, Barbosu was hgreatering a Romanian flag when she seeed up and saw the scoring alter 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 reaction. Gymnastics legfinish Nadia Comaneci condemned the score alter on social media, and Romanian Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu shelp on Tuesday that he will boycott the Paris Olympics’ closing ceremony over the scoring decision.
The Romanian Olympic and Sports Committee proclaimd on Wednesday that it would be requesting the decision.
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