The American gymnast Jordan Chiles’ Olympic bronze medal in the floor exercise was overturned by the court of adjudication for sport, allowing Romania’s Ana Barbosu to take Chiles’ place as the bronze medalist.
Committee decided on Saturday that the US coach Cecile Landi’s request to add 0.1 to Chiles’ score—which propelled her from fifth to third—came beyond the International Gymnastics Federation’s (FIG) one-minute window.
The original finishing order, with Barbosu third, colleague Sabrina Maneca-Voinea fourth, and Chiles fifth, should be reinstated, according to Cas’ ruling. In keeping with the judgement mentioned above, the organization underlined that the FIG should establish the ultimate ranking.
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In the Paris floor final, Barbosu and Maneca-Voinea finished with identical scores of 13.700, leaving them outside the medals. Barbosu started to celebrate with a Romanian flag, believing she had defeated Maneca-Voinea for bronze through a tiebreaker—a better execution score.
Chiles, the final competitor, started with a score of 13.666, placing her just below Maneca-Voinea in fifth place. Following a review, judges increased Chiles’ total by 0.1 points after Landi requested an investigation into her score. That was sufficient to move up to the last podium position, ahead of Barbosu and Maneca-Voinea.
USA Gymnastics expressed its “devastation” at the decision in a statement. In order to guarantee proper scoring, the organization stated that it had submitted the investigation into Jordan Chiles’ floor exercise routine’s difficulty value in good faith and, they believed, in compliance with FIG standards.
Later on, the FIG acknowledged that it had changed the results, bringing Chiles back to his initial ranking and dropping Barbosu to third place. The International Olympiad Committee will decide what to do with the bronze medal; this has not yet been confirmed.
Chiles posted two comments on social media in response to the ruling. Her Instagram stories were first updated with four heartbreak emoticons set against a black backdrop. “I am taking this opportunity to withdrawing myself from the internet for my mental health,” she wrote in her second post. I’m grateful.
Jordan Chiles announced a social media hiatus after losing Olympic bronze medal.
Jordan Chiles has said that she will be stepping away from social media for a while. During her time competing in Paris, the Team USA gymnast took home two medals: a bronze for the individual floor exercise and a gold team medal alongside Suni Lee, Hezly Rivera, Jade Carey, and Simone Biles. After finishing her routine, Chiles was ranked fifth, but her coach’s inquiry over her score caused it to rise to the point where she was able to join Biles and Brazil’s Rebeca Andrade on the podium.
But after the decision was reached, the Romanian team filed an appeal in an attempt to have Ana Barbosu as well as Sabrina Maneca-Voinea’s initial scores restored.
Not long afterward, Romania’s prime minister, Marcel Ciolacu, declared on Facebook has that he was not going to visiting the Olympics’ closing ceremony till the results were examined.
He wrote at the time, “After the scandalous incident in the sport of gymnastics where our athletes received treatment in an extremely dishonorable manner, I made the choice not to attend the final event of the Paris Olympics.”
“It is totally unacceptable to take away a medal that was earned through honest work based on an appeal that neither the top technicians nor the coaches understand!”
Chiles’s coach filed an inquiry, but the Court of Arbitration for Sport invalidated it on Saturday because it was submitted beyond the International Gymnastics Federation’s allotted one-minute window.
The ruling panel states that the federation will “assign the medal(s) in alignment with the above decision” and decide the three performers in question’s final ranking. Chiles shared a picture of a black screen with multiple broken heart emojis on her Instagram account after the judgement was announced.
The United States Gymnastics Association and the United States Olympic & Paralympics Committee expressed their “devastation” over the decision in a joint statement.
“To ensure accurate scoring, we believe that the investigation into the Hard Value of Jordan Chiles’ floor routine of exercise was initiated in good faith and in compliance with FIG rules,” the statement read.
Jordan has been the target of persistent, completely unfounded, and incredibly painful insults on social media throughout the appeals process. Such treatment ought not to be meted out to any athlete. We denounce the attacks and the people who participate in, encourage, or incite them. We remain to abide by and support Jordan, and we praise her for acting honorably on as well as off the contest floor.
After that, Chiles shared a second message on her story on Instagram that said, “I am taking this moment to suspending myself from the internet for my mental health, thank you,” likewise with a blank screen.
Before the decision, Gina Chiles, the mother of the gymnast, took to X, the former name of Twitter, to respond to any criticism her daughter was facing.
The deplorable remarks made by racists persist into 2024. People saying it doesn’t exist anymore irritate me. “My daughter is an Olympic athlete with great distinction, an unwavering sense of sportsmanship, and the biggest heart—and she’s being called disgusting things,” the mother wrote.
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