Jordan Chiles is coming to try and Get her a bronze Medals back, and Simone Biles will probably be right behind her.
Chiles and his legal team filed an appeal with Switzerland’s Federal Supreme Court to overturn the verdict handed down at the Paris Olympics. refused him Placed third in the women’s gymnastics floor routine final. Chiles was pushed from third to fifth after U.S. coaches submitted an appeal too late to raise her score compared to the Romanian competitors. She was asked to return the bronze medal, but there are no reports indicating she has done or will do so.
Now, as Chiles and her legal team try to have her reinstated as an official medal winner, her case may be helped by footage from a new Netflix docuseries focused on Biles.
According to court documents filed with Switzerland’s Federal Supreme Court on Monday, her lawyer has submitted footage from the company that produces Biles’ Netflix series that they allege shows visual evidence in Chiles’ favor. According to multiple reports, they claim the footage proves that the request for a review that raised Chiles’ score was not submitted until after the deadline.
The documents say the check by U.S. coach Cecil Landi was conducted 49 seconds after the result was announced, which falls within the 60-second period allowed for appeals.
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Simone Biles and Jordan Chiles of Team United States pose with their Paris 2024 Olympic medals after 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. (Jamie Squires/Getty Images)
Chiles’ lawyers have argued that the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), which handed down the final decision, “violated Chiles’ fundamental right to be heard” by “refusing to consider video evidence that demonstrated that his investigation was submitted on time – which is in direct contradiction to the findings of the CAS decision.”
Her lawyers also claimed that CAS President Hamid G. Gharawi was acting in a conflict of interest. The medal, which was initially won by Romania’s Ana Babosu, withdrawn after review, then returned, represented a country with which Gharawi had close ties. Gharawi served as a lawyer for Romania for nearly a decade and was the country’s active representative at the time of the CAS decision to strip Chile of the medal.
Chiles gave his first interview about the incident during a panel this week. Forbes Power Women Summit On Wednesday, a program was organized for 2024. When the gymnast was asked about this topic, she became emotional.
“For me, what happened is not about the medal, it’s about the color of my skin,” Chiles said, crying.
chili Previously claimed In a statement posted to X on August 15, she said she was facing “racially motivated attacks” from social media users. When Chiles won the bronze medal, it resulted in the first gymnastics podium in Olympic history that included three black competitors.
Biles has been a vocal supporter of her teammate during this time, as she was the one who stood on the first all-Black podium alongside her and Brazil’s Rebecca Andrade in the floor exercise final.
The controversy has sparked international scrutiny over the judges who scored the event. The Center for Arbitration for Sport (CAS) and the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) issued a joint statement on August 15 condemning the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) and the judging team for the result.
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August 5, 2024; Paris, France; Jordan Chiles of the United States competes in the floor exercise on day three of the gymnastics finals during the Paris 2024 Olympic Summer Games. (Jack Gruber-USA TODAY Sports)
“If FIG had implemented such a mechanism or arrangement, a lot of problems could have been avoided,” the CAS ad hoc panel said in a release. “The panel hopes that FIG will take into account the consequences of this case in future with regard to these three exceptional athletes and other athletes and their support personnel, so that this will never happen again.”
Ever since the day of the floor exercise final in Paris, it has been a point of emotional contention for both the Americans and the Romanians.
Barbosu had won the bronze medal for floor on Monday and began celebrating on the mat. But then the American coaches appealed to the judges about Chiles’ score and the review resulted in a 0.1 point increase, allowing Chiles to overtake Barbosu for the bronze medal.
The initial decision was met with widespread criticism. Gymnastics legend Nadia Comaneci denounced the score change on social media and Romanian Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu said he would boycott the decision. paris olympics‘ The scoring decision was taken at the closing ceremony.
Everything changed on the last day of the Olympics, just before the closing ceremony. CAS then ruled that the event’s jury had improperly allowed the investigation to take place. Chile’s score increased. The following day the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) ruled that Chile must return the medal.
Chiles became the third gymnast in history to be stripped of an Olympic medal. The other two are Dong Fangxiao of China and Andreea Raducan of Romania, who both lost their medals at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
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Silver medalist Simone Biles (left) and bronze medalist Jordan Chiles (right) of Team United States celebrate after competing in the Artistic Gymnastics Women’s Floor Exercise Final on day ten of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at the Bercy Arena on August 5, 2024 in Paris, France. (Xavier Lane/Getty Images)
Raducan was stripped of her individual all-around gold medal after she tested positive for a banned substance in cold medication tablets given to her by the team doctor. China was stripped of its team all-around bronze medal after it was discovered in Sydney that Dong was just 14, two years too young to compete.
Meanwhile, Barbosu she got her own On August 16, the official bronze medal was won and an expression of sympathy was made to Chile.
“I can’t stop thinking about Sabrina and Jordan right now,” Barbosu said. A statement said“This is a difficult situation for us, with a lot of uncertainties and heavy emotions. I hope everyone understands that we have done nothing wrong at the Olympics. And the Olympic spirit is more important than any misunderstandings between officials.
“I want to believe that the day will come when the three of us will get the bronze medal.”
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