USA Gymnastics has submitted video evidence to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in a bid to retain the bronze medal won by Jordan Chiles in the artistic gymnastics floor exercise at the Paris Olympics. The submission comes a day after CAS ruled in favor of an appeal by Romania’s Ana Barbosu, who will now move up to third place in the event.
Barbosu and her team had appealed to CAS, arguing that Chiles’ coach, Cecile Landi, filed an inquiry regarding the results after the one-minute deadline. This, they asserted, meant that Chiles should not be awarded the score of 13.766, which had initially lifted her to third place.
However, USA Gymnastics maintains that it has provided CAS with video footage that was unavailable to the governing body prior to the tribunal’s decision. They claim this footage demonstrates that Landi initiated the request to file an inquiry at the inquiry table 47 seconds after the score was posted, followed by a second statement 55 seconds after the score was originally posted.
Chiles had initially been awarded a score of 13.666, while Barbosu scored 13.700. It’s important to note that the CAS decision does not impact either the gold medalist, Rebeca Andrade of Brazil, who scored 14.166, or the silver medalist, Simone Biles of the United States, who scored 14.133. The outcome of USA Gymnastics’ appeal remains to be seen, and the future of the bronze medal remains uncertain.
