USA Gymnastics is appealing the decision to strip Jordan Chiles of her bronze medal.
The organization issued a statement Sunday (August 11) after news broke that the 23-year-old gymnast would need to surrender the medal to Romanian Olympian Ana Barbosu because of a ruling made by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
USA Gymnastics says they have video evidence, complete with time stamps, indicating her coach made the inquiry into her judging at 47 seconds, and again at 55 seconds, both under the 1-minute time limit.
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“USA Gymnastics on Sunday formally submitted a letter and video evidence to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, conclusively establishing that Head Coach Cecile Landi‘s request to file an inquiry was submitted 47 seconds after the publishing of the score, within the 1-minute deadline required by FIG rule,” they said in the statement.
“In the letter, USA Gymnastics requests that the CAS ruling be revised and Chiles‘ bronze-medal score of 13.766 reinstated. The basis for the CAS ruling on Friday striking down the inquiry was that ‘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 time-stamped, video evidence submitted by USA Gymnastics Sunday evening shows Landi first stated her request to file an inquiry at the inquiry table 47 seconds after the score is posted, followed by a second statement 55 seconds after the score was originally posted,” the statement continues.
“The video footage provided was not available to USA Gymnastics prior to the tribunal’s decision and thus USAG did not have the opportunity to previously submit it.”
Find out what Ana Barbosu said about the bronze medal being taken away.
