The Court of Arbitration for Sport rejected USA Gymnastics’ appeal for Jordan Chiles to retain his bronze medal in ground training at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, despite the United States claiming that video evidence showed the gymnast had to stand.
Chiles first received bronze last week after an appeal of her score was approved through U. S. coach Cecile Landi, who was submitted on the spot after her regimen. The appeal gave Chiles a higher score of 0. 1, moving from 5th to 3rd. That left partygoer Ana Barbosu of Romania out of contention for the medal that day.
Barbosu’s team later challenged the decision, saying the U. S. team’s on-site investigation came 1 minute and four seconds after Chiles’ score was released, which is longer than the one-minute limit for appeal. The investigation came seconds too late. and the International Olympic Committee that Chiles deserves to give up its medal in favor of Barbosu.
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Then, on Sunday, USA Gymnastics said it had officially submitted a letter and video evidence to the CAS “conclusively establishing” that Landi first implemented the opening of an investigation 47 moments after the score was released, followed by a moment 55 moments after the score was released. , either “within the one-minute time required through the FIG.
“The video provided was not supposed to be provided to USA Gymnastics prior to the court ruling and USAG did not have the opportunity to present it sooner,” the team said, asking CAS to give its opinion on its ruling and repair Chile’s bronze medal. score of 13,766.
But on Monday, USA Gymnastics said CAS had said its regulations “allow for reconsideration of an arbitral award even when conclusive new evidence is presented,” thus ignoring the appeal.
“We are deeply disappointed by this notification and will continue to pursue every avenue and appeal procedure imaginable, including to the Swiss Federal Court, to ensure that scoring, grading and medal awarding are fair to Jordan,” USA Gymnastics said in a statement. a statement.
Chiles has already returned to the United States with the bronze medal. When she announced that she would be stripped of him, she announced that she would be taking a break from social media.
“I take this time and withdraw from social networks for my health, thank you,” Chiles posted on her Instagram Story.
Barbosu also posted a message on his Instagram story.
“Sabrina, Jordan, my mind is with you,” she said, also addressing her teammate Sabrina Maneca-Voinea. “I know how you feel, because the same thing happened to me. But know that you will come back stronger. ”
“I hope from the bottom of my heart that in the next Olympic Games the three of us share the same podium. This is my true dream!” she said.
“This scenario would not have existed if the culprits had had respectable rules. We, athletes, cannot be blamed and the hatred directed at us is painful,” Barbosu added.
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