Jordan Chiles found out that she won the first individual Olympic medal of her career, a bronze on floor, after a last-second inquiry with the judges bumped up her final score.
In a stunning move, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) reinstated Jordan Chiles' initial Olympics floor exercise final score of 13.666, which originally had put her in fifth place and out of medal contention.
After an inquiry by the United States, Chiles was given a score of 13.766, which leapfrogged her over two Romanian gymnasts and earned her the bronze medal.
The Romanian Olympic Committee filed an appeal and the ruling was delivered Saturday.
The ruling from the court follows below:
"The arbitral Panel ruled as follows:
In CAS OG 24/15:
- The application filed by Federation Romanian Gymnastics and Ms Ana Bărbosu on 6 August
2024, in its amended version of 8 August 2024, is partially upheld. - The inquiry submitted on behalf of Ms Jordan Chiles in the Final of the women’s Floor exercise
was raised after the conclusion of the one-minute deadline provided by article 8.5 of the 2024
FIG Technical Regulations and is determined to be without effect. - The initial score of 13.666 given to Ms Jordan Chiles in the final of the women’s Floor exercise
shall be reinstated. - The Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique shall determine the ranking of the Final of the
women’s Floor exercise and assign the medal(s) in accordance with the above decision. - All other requests are dismissed.
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In CAS OG 24/16:
- The application filed by Federation Romanian Gymnastics and Ms Sabrina Maneca-Voinea on
6 August 2024, in its amended version of 8 August 2024, is dismissed."
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What happens to Jordan Chiles' bronze medal?
The Federation Internationale de Gymnastique said it was reinstating Chiles' initial floor final score of 13.666, and Ana Barbosu of Romania was given a third-place ranking. FIG not speak to what happens to the medals.
According to the Associated Press, FIG said the International Olympic Committee will make that decision and no official bronze medal reallocation announcement has been made.
