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PARIS — An independent arbitration court vacated a last-minute inquiry in the Olympic gymnastics floor exercise final that boosted the score of U.S. gymnast Jordan Chiles, and the sport’s governing body officially moved a Romanian athlete into third place — a series of events Saturday that put Chiles’ bronze medal in question.
Judges in last Monday’s final in Paris had originally given Chiles a score of 13.666, which put her in fifth place behind two Romanian gymnasts, Ana Barbosu and Sabrina Maneca-Voinea, both of whom had scored 13.7.
Because Chiles had been the last to perform her floor routine, Barbosu, who held a tiebreaker over Maneca-Voinea, began to celebrate when the initial score came through, thinking she had won the bronze instead.
But Chiles’ coaches believed the judges had underscored her, and they filed an inquiry shortly after the initial score came through. The judges agreed and revised her score up by a tenth of a point to 13.766, moving her into third place over Barbosu. Chiles was awarded the bronze medal.
The next day, the Romanian gymnastics organization filed a protest with the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique, which oversees Olympic gymnastics, seeking to have the inquiry overturned.
In a decision Saturday, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) said that Chiles’ inquiry had indeed been filed too late. Gymnastics rules require that inquiries be filed within one minute; Chiles’ inquiry was filed after one minute and four seconds, the court said. With the inquiry vacated, her score was reverted to 13.666.
Soon after, FIG officially updated the results of Monday’s competition, moving Barbosu into third and Chiles to fifth.
It is unclear what will happen to the bronze medal awarded to Chiles.
The Romanian protest had also asked that all three athletes be ranked together in 3rd place by FIG, in order to share the bronze — a request that FIG apparently denied.
In a joint statement, USA Gymnastics and the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee said they were “devastated” by the CAS ruling.
“The inquiry into the Difficulty Value of Jordan Chiles’ floor exercise routine was filed in good faith and, we believed, in accordance with FIG rules to ensure accurate scoring,” the statement said.
In a post on her Instagram, Chiles said she was broken-hearted. “I am taking this time and removing myself from social media for my mental health,” she wrote.
“Throughout the appeal process, Jordan has been subject to consistent, utterly baseless and extremely hurtful attacks on social media,” the USA Gymnastics and USOPC statement said. No athlete should be subject to such treatment. We condemn the attacks and those who engage, support or instigate them.”
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