- Footage from Simone Biles’ Netflix docuseries could profit the most recent attraction by Jordan Chiles to reinstate her bronze medal
- Chiles’ attorneys filed new paperwork on Monday with the footage supplied by the collection’ manufacturing firm and director
- The gymnast’s authorized counsel can be claiming there was a “critical battle of curiosity” within the dispute between the Romanian and American Olympic Committees
Footage from Simone Biles‘ Netflix documentary would be the smoking gun within the combat for Jordan Chiles’ Olympic medal.
Because the 23-year-old Olympian’s attorneys continue to advocate for Chiles to be re-awarded her bronze medal from the creative gymnastics flooring last on the 2024 Paris Olympics, courtroom paperwork obtained by PEOPLE reveal that video footage from Simone Biles: Rising captured in Paris could show that Chiles’ coach Cecile Landi submitted her inquiry in time.
Throughout the competitors on Aug. 5, Chiles was initially given a rating that put her in fifth place. Landi rapidly submitted a profitable inquiry to the judges to reevaluate her problem rating, which put her forward of two Romanian gymnasts and into bronze, which she was awarded through the medal ceremony.
However days later, Chiles’ bronze was stripped after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) decided that Landi had been 4 seconds late to submit the inquiry. The American was stripped of her medal and it was awarded to Romanian Ana Barbosu following the CAS resolution.
Now, in paperwork filed on Monday, Sept. 16 within the Federal Supreme Court docket of Switzerland, Chiles’ legal professional has submitted footage from Faith of Sports activities, the manufacturing firm behind Biles’ docuseries, and director Katie Walsh that they declare proves the “actual time” Landi inquired on Chiles’ behalf.
Monday’s new submitting argues that Landi first acknowledged she’d like an “inquiry for Jordan” 49 seconds after the end result got here in, which falls throughout the 60 second window granted for appeals.
Based on the paperwork, Chiles is seen hugging her coach 15 seconds after the end result on the Bercy Enviornment in Paris. Landi can’t be seen within the video footage supplied by Faith of Sports activities to the courtroom, however the submitting claims that Landi “clearly and audibly” acknowledged “an oral objection for the primary time” 49 seconds after the end result.
The footage additionally apparently reveals two “technical assistants” making “eye contact with” Landi and nodding to her “to point receipt of the Verbal Inquiry,” per the submitting.
The submitting on Monday by Chiles’ legal professional claims that the CAS “violated Chiles’s basic ‘proper to be heard’ by refusing to think about the video proof that confirmed her inquiry was submitted on time — in direct contradiction to the findings in CAS’s resolution.”
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The gymnast’s authorized crew can be arguing that CAS president Hamid G. Gharavi had a “critical battle of curiosity” within the matter between Chiles and Barbosu of Romania. Per the paperwork, Gharavi acted as counsel for Romania for practically a decade and had been an energetic consultant of the nation on the time of the CAS’ resolution to strip Chiles of her medal.
“Jordan Chiles’ appeals current the worldwide neighborhood with a straightforward authorized query — will everybody stand by whereas an Olympic athlete who has finished solely the fitting factor is stripped of her medal due to basic unfairness in an ad-hoc arbitration course of? The reply to that query ought to be no. Each a part of the Olympics, together with the arbitration course of, ought to stand for honest play,” mentioned Maurice M. Suh, counsel for Chiles.
A letter was additionally filed in help of Chiles’ attraction on Monday by the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC), based on the gymnast’s attorneys.
In an announcement the identical day, USA Gymnastics introduced their help for Chiles’ attraction and mentioned the group made a “collective, strategic resolution to have Jordan lead the preliminary submitting.”
“USAG is carefully coordinating with Jordan and her authorized crew and will make supportive filings with the courtroom within the continued pursuit of justice for Jordan,” the assertion from USA Gymnastics concluded.
In an interview with PEOPLE final month, Biles said she wants “justice” for her teammate.
“It’s an unlucky circumstance as a result of one thing like this has by no means occurred earlier than and it’s actually a disgrace, however we want all three ladies might get the medal and sadly in gymnastics that’s not the case,” Biles advised PEOPLE of the scenario.
“Do we expect they did the proper procedures to return to this ruling? No. That’s actually why we wish that justice for Jordan and why we’re going to maintain supporting her and uplifting her,” added Biles.