American gymnast Jordan Chiles was stripped of her bronze medal title within the girls’s flooring train closing on the 2024 Paris Olympics after a ruling from the Court docket of Arbitration (CAS) in the end led the Worldwide Olympic Committee to revive the rostrum to incorporate Romanian gymnast Ana Barbosu final week.
Nevertheless, in keeping with studies, Chiles has no plans to return the bronze medal as Group USA plans to proceed its pursuit of an attraction.
Jordan Chiles, of the USA, reacts to profitable the bronze medal in the course of the girls’s inventive gymnastics particular person flooring finals at Bercy Enviornment on the 2024 Summer time Olympics. (AP Picture/Charlie Riedel)
Chiles, a two-time Olympian and Olympic gold medalist, initially completed fifth within the eight-woman closing earlier than Group USA coach Cecile Landi appealed her rating, asking to obtain credit score for a maneuver that may enhance her rating by .1.
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The attraction was granted, and Chiles moved on to the rostrum, bumping Barbosu out of medal rivalry.
Chiles participated within the medal ceremony following the competitors, however Romania protested the choice to the CAS, arguing that the attraction was not made throughout the permitted one-minute time-frame of when Chiles’ rating was first posted.
The attraction was profitable, and on Friday, Barbosu was awarded the bronze medal.
Romanian gymnast Ana Maria Barbosu poses along with her Olympic bronze medal she was given on Aug. 16, 2024 in Bucharest, Romania, after a gymnast from the US was stripped of it. (Daniel MIHAILESCU / AFP)
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Nevertheless, in keeping with USA In the present day’s Christine Brennan, Chiles has no plans to return her {hardware} regardless of Barbosu’s medal ceremony.
Brennan reported Thursday that “Chiles is in the United States and still has possession of the bronze medal that was awarded to her in the floor exercise at the Paris Olympics, two people with knowledge of the situation who did not want to be identified have told USA TODAY Sports.”
“There are no plans for Chiles to give the bronze medal back as U.S. officials say they plan to appeal what the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee said were ‘significant procedural errors’ by CAS. That appeal would presumably go to the Swiss Federal Tribunal.”
Jordan Chiles celebrates profitable a bronze medal within the girls’s flooring train closing on day three of the gymnastics occasion finals in the course of the 2024 Paris Olympics. (Jack Gruber-USA TODAY Sports activities)
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Chiles herself has known as the choice “unjust.”
Romania’s attraction accused Group USA of interesting Chiles’ rating 4 seconds previous the deadline. However USA Gymnastics argues that Landi’s attraction got here 13 seconds earlier than the deadline, and it claims to have video proof to help this.
The Related Press contributed to this report.
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