Jordan Chiles will not be backing down.
On Monday, Sept. 16, attorneys for the Olympic gold medalist, 23, filed an enchantment on Chiles’ behalf with the Federal Supreme Courtroom of Switzerland to overturn a choice by the Courtroom of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) that stripped the athlete of her bronze medal within the girls’s gymnastics flooring occasion following the 2024 Paris Olympics, in response to a press release. The bronze medal was awarded to Romanian gymnast Ana Bărbosu.
The “CAS violated Chiles’s elementary ‘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 choice,” her attorneys alleged within the press launch.
Chiles’ attorneys declare that Chiles was by no means correctly knowledgeable that CAS president Hamid G. Gharavi had “a severe battle of curiosity,” the press launch states. Gharavi had acted as counsel for Romania for nearly a decade and was actively representing Romania on the time of the incident, Chiles’ attorneys mentioned.
“Jordan Chiles’ appeals current the worldwide group with a straightforward authorized query — will everybody stand by whereas an Olympic athlete who has carried out solely the correct factor is stripped of her medal due to elementary unfairness in an ad-hoc arbitration course of? The reply to that query must be no. Each a part of the Olympics, together with the arbitration course of, ought to stand for truthful play,” mentioned Maurice M. Suh, counsel for Chiles.
United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) filed a letter in help of Chiles’ enchantment, her attorneys mentioned within the press launch.
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USA Gymnastics introduced their help for Chiles’ enchantment in an announcement on Monday.
“USA Gymnastics helps the enchantment submitted at this time by Jordan Chiles on the Swiss Federal Tribunal as we made a collective, strategic choice to have Jordan lead the preliminary submitting,” the assertion learn. “USAG is carefully coordinating with Jordan and her authorized workforce and will make supportive filings with the court docket within the continued pursuit of justice for Jordan.”
Chiles, who received a gold medal as a member of Crew USA on July 30 within the girls’s inventive workforce all-around competitors, competed within the particular person flooring train competitors on Aug. 5. At first, Chiles completed fifth, however her coach filed an enchantment over a scoring error. After the Romanian gymnasts filed their enchantment to the CAS, the Worldwide Olympic Committee ordered Chiles to return her bronze medal on Aug. 11.
The CAS claimed the gymnast’s coach was 4 seconds late when making an inquiry to appropriate her rating of 13.766 to 13.666. Chiles disputed this discovering, “even submitted video footage which unequivocally proves that the inquiry was submitted on time,” her attorneys’ press launch reads.
On Aug. 15, Chiles shared a statement to her Instagram account, breaking her silence after being stripped of her bronze medal amid back-and-forth appeals with Olympic committees.
“Whereas celebrating my Olympic accomplishments, I heard the devastating information that my bronze medal had been stripped away,” the gymnast started.
Chiles mentioned she “had confidence within the enchantment introduced by USAG, who gave conclusive proof that my rating adopted all the principles.” However in the end, “This enchantment was unsuccessful.”
“I’ve no phrases. This choice feels unjust and comes as a big blow, not simply to me, however to everybody who has championed my journey,” Chiles mentioned, partially.