The Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled Jordan Chiles‘ appeal of her floor exercise score was four seconds too late, likely voiding her bronze medal.
Jordan Chiles cried in her coach’s arms, stood on an Olympic podium with a bronze medal around her neck and is memorialized in one of the viral moments of these 2024 Summer Games when she joined Simone Biles bowing to gold medalist Rebeca Andrade.
A court ruled Saturday that none of it should have happened.
After a judging inquiry boosted Chiles from fifth place to third in the women’s floor exercise final on Monday, the Romanian gymnastics federation filed an appeal with the Court of Arbitration for Sport arguing the timing of the inquiry that awarded Chiles the decisive additional tenth. In a partial acceptance of the petition published Saturday, the Court ruled that Chiles’ inquiry came in four seconds too late and that her original score of 13.666 should stand.
It will be up to the International Gymnastics Federation to rank and determine the medals of the women’s floor exercise event according to the Court’s ruling.
With her original score reinstated, Chiles would stand fifth behind Romanian gymnasts Ana Barbosu and Sabrina Maneca-Voinea, who tied with a score of 13.
