Team USA and gymnast Jordan Chiles didn’t let the revocation of her Olympic bronze medal stop her from showing off her team gold on Tuesday.
In a New Year’s Eve post celebrating the medals the US claimed at the Olympics Olympic Games in Paris this year, the team posted a photo of Chiles with the gold medal she and her American teammates won in the women’s team event. Chiles was the only gymnast included in the collage.
Chiles reposted the photo to her personal Instagram Story later on Tuesday.
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Jordan Chiles of the United States is congratulated by teammate Simone Biles (L) of the United States after dramatically claiming the bronze medal following a score change after the women’s floor final during the artistic gymnastics competition at Bercy Arena during the Summer Olympics 2024 in Paris on August 5, 2024 in Paris, France. (Mehmet Murat Onel/Anadolu via Getty Images)
The 23-year-old gymnast is currently involved in an appeal against a ruling by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), which saw her drop from third in the event to fifth in the women’s floor exercise final.
Romanian Ana Barbosu initially achieved a higher score than Chiles after the American finished her routine. Then, at the request of an American coach, the judges reviewed the footage, changed the score and pushed Chiles to third place, sparking the initial controversy and fierce reactions from the Romanians.
The decision to give the medal to Chiles instead resulted in the first All-Black podium in Olympic gymnastics history, as she joined teammate Simone Biles and Brazil’s Rebecca Andrade.
But then, on the final day of the Olympics, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ruled that Chile’s appeal had been submitted past the one-minute deadline, and changed her score to drop her to fifth place. The next day, on August 11, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) ruled that Chiles should return the medal.
However, after the end of the Olympics in August, USA Today reported that Chiles and the rest of the U.S. Olympic team “no intention“of returning the medal, while they continue to appeal the IOC’s decision.
Chiles’ lawyers have argued that her coach did indeed make the request on time and that there is video evidence to prove it, and have also indicated that the official who made the decision to take away Chiles’ medal had ties to Romania.
“Chiles asks the Supreme Court to find that the CAS decision was procedurally inadequate for two reasons,” Chiles’ lawyers said in a statement. to Olympics.com.
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Team USA from left to right: Jordan Chiles, Hezly Rivera, Jade Carey, Simone Biles and Sunisa Lee pose for photos after competing in the women’s artistic gymnastics qualifying round at Bercy Arena at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Sunday, July 28, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr)
“First, CAS violated Chile’s fundamental ‘right to be heard’ by refusing to consider the video evidence showing that its investigation was timely submitted – in direct contradiction to the findings in CAS’s decision.
“Second, the entire CAS procedure was unfair because Chiles was not properly informed that Hamid G. Gharavi, the chairman of the CAS panel that revoked Chiles’ bronze medal and awarded it instead to a Romanian gymnast, constituted a serious conflict of interest had: Mr. Gharavi has been acting as counsel for Romania for almost ten years and actively represented Romania at the time of the CAS arbitration.”
Chiles has also appealed to the Swiss Federal Supreme Court to overturn the CAS decision. She argued that she had not been given a fair opportunity to defend herself and that the CAS had not properly considered video evidence.
Chiles and her teammates have been open about the emotional toll losing the medal has taken on her in the months since the end of the Olympics.
Chiles gave her first sit-down interview about the incident this week during a panel on the Forbes Power Women’s Summit September 2024. The gymnast choked up and burst into tears when asked about the subject.
“For me, everything that happened isn’t about the medal, it’s about, you know, my skin color,” Chiles said.
Chiles previously claimed she faced “racially driven attacks” from social media users in a statement posted to X on August 15. When Chiles won the bronze medal, it resulted in the first gymnastics podium in Olympic history with three black competitors.
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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 Paris 2024 Olympic Games at Bercy Arena on August 5, 2024 in Paris, France. (Jamie Squire/Getty Images)
“It’s about the fact that there were things that led to this position as an athlete and I felt like everything was stripped down.”
The controversy has led to international scrutiny of the judges who judged the event. The Center of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) and the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) released a joint statement on August 15 condemning the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) and the judges for the outcome.
“If the FIG had introduced such a mechanism or arrangement, much of the grief would have been avoided,” the CAS ad hoc panel said in a press release. “The panel expresses the hope that in the future the FIG will take action on this matter, with regard to these three extraordinary athletes as well as other athletes and their support staff, so that this will never happen again.”
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