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- Battle for bronze. The Paris Olympics ended on a record-breaking high note for female athletes. Team USA's women took home 26 out of 40 gold medals and 67 out of its total 126 medals—more than half. If the American women were their own country, they would have placed third worldwide by medal count.
And yet the slow trickle of Olympics news is finishing on a low note, with a controversy over a bronze medal won by U.S. gymnast Jordan Chiles on Aug. 5. Last week, Romania's gymnastics federation challenged Chiles's score in the floor exercise final, which had been increased after a reevaluation during the event, knocking two Romanian gymnasts out of contention for the bronze. The inquiry led to a heartbreaking result for Chiles: on Sunday, the International Olympic Committee asked Chiles to return her medal.
