US gymnast’s family has denounced the «racist disgusting comments» directed at the athlete after she was stripped of her bronze medal.
Jordan Chiles’ sister spoke out in her defense after the U.S. gymnast lost her Olympic bronze medal following a court ruling on Saturday, saying that in the history of the Games such drastic actions have only been taken for cheating or doping.
«She did neither», Jazmin Chiles said of her sister in a fuming comment on her Instagram stories. «Racism is real, it exists, it is alive and well», she wrote on the social media platform.
«They have officially, five days later, stripped her of one of her medals. Not because she didn’t win, not because she was drugged, not because she stepped out of bounds. Not because she wasn’t good enough. But because the judges failed to give her difficulty and forced an inquiry to be made.»
Newsweek contacted Jazmin Chiles by direct message on Instagram on Sunday morning.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled on Saturday that the appeal made by U.S. coach Cecile Landi to have 0.1 added to Chiles’ initial score of 13.666 came outside the one-minute window allowed by the International Gymnastic Federation (FIG) by four seconds.
The difficulty score inquiry lodged by Landi gave Chiles an additional score which lifted her from fifth place to third, bringing the U.
