Jordan Chiles has formally been stripped of her Olympic bronze medal.
USA Gymnastics introduced in a press release on social media Monday, Aug. 12, that the Courtroom of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has denied the Olympian’s attraction to reinstate the bronze medal she acquired after the ladies’s particular person flooring train last on Monday, Aug. 5.
“USA Gymnastics was notified by the Courtroom of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on Monday that their guidelines don’t enable for an arbitral award to be reconsidered even when conclusive new proof is offered,” the assertion learn. “We’re deeply disillusioned by the notification and can proceed to pursue each attainable avenue and attraction course of, together with to the Swiss Federal Tribunal, to make sure the simply scoring, placement, and medal award for Jordan.”
Chiles, 23, was in fifth place when the competitors initially ended on Aug. 5, behind Romanian gymnasts Ana Barbosu and Sabrina Maneca-Voinea.
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The American gymnast scored a 13.666 on her routine initially, placing her behind the Romanians, who had been tied with a 13.700.
Chiles’ coaches appealed the rating as a result of her problem ought to have been larger to incorporate sufficient credit score for a leap that concerned performing a break up within the air whereas turning 540 levels.
Judges agreed with Coach Cecile Landi’s attraction and awarded Chiles credit score for the ability which modified her rating to 13.766 and put her within the bronze medal place.
Chiles stood on the primary all-Black podium in gymnastics historical past on Aug. 5, with gold medalist within the occasion Rebeca Andrade and silver medalist, fellow Workforce USA gymnast Simone Biles.
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However on Saturday, Aug. 10, the Courtroom of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) dominated in favor of Maneca-Voinea and Barbosu’s problem of Chiles’ placement. The problem claimed that Landi submitted her problem of Chiles’ first rating 4 seconds too late.
Chiles, who had earned her first particular person Olympic medal after the occasion, was stripped of it.
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The U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) tried to attraction the choice, claiming there was video proof that Landi’s problem was made in time.
Nevertheless, as of the CAS on Aug. 12, Barbosu is the one gymnast who will obtain the bronze medal.
