Jordan Chiles's teammates and the rest of the Olympic world came to her defense this weekend as the International Olympic Committee (IOC) officially ruled Sunday the American gymnast needs to give back her bronze medal she initially won in the women's gymnastics floor final in Paris.
The controversy stems from a protest filed by the Romanian Federation of Gymnastics, which argued that Chiles's coach Cecile Landi sent in an appeal of the gymnast's difficulty score after the allowable one-minute time limit. Chiles's score, which was boosted to 13.766 after the successful challenge, was returned to 13.666 after the ruling, dropping her from third place back to fifth.
