A new detail has emerged in the battle over Jordan Chiles’s Olympic bronze medal, a saga which has overshadowed a thrilling gymnastics competition at the Paris Games.
Chiles was initially given bronze in the floor exercise after an appeal over how the judges scored her routine was accepted and she moved from fifth to third place. However, the Romanian Olympic Committee said the appeal had been filed four seconds after the one-minute time limit. The Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) then voided Chiles’s appeal and the IOC ordered the American to return the medal. Romania’s Ana Barbosu has been promoted to third while Chiles has dropped back to fifth. The Romanians had asked for both gymnasts to be given bronze.
