Jordan Chiles has been combating to retain the bronze medal she initially gained throughout the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Chiles, on behalf of Group USA, completed in third place throughout the ladies’s flooring train closing of the gymnastics meet in August 2024 behind Brazil’s Rebecca Andrade and USA’s Simone Biles in first and second place, respectively. It was the primary time that three Black ladies stood atop the Olympics gymnastics podium.
Inside days of the medal ceremony, Chiles’ medal was reallocated to Romanian athlete Ana Barbosu following scoring inquiries.
“It was a devastating time,” Chiles mentioned on the “Child It’s Keke Palmer” podcast in November 2025. “It (was) an all-Black podium, which may be very uncommon. It’s clearly one thing that individuals simply don’t like. They didn’t need to see that. They didn’t need to see three stunning Black ladies standing on that podium. They didn’t need to see the truth that we had been simply dominating, and I actually took that to coronary heart.”
Jordan Chiles is trying again on her life-changing bronze medal controversy one yr after the Paris Olympics. “A yr in the past immediately I walked off the ground in Paris with a bronze medal — and classes I’ll carry with me for all times,” Chiles, 24, wrote through Instagram on Tuesday, August 5. “The toughest moments actually do (…)
Chiles subsequently filed an enchantment to permit the Olympics fee to vary the ruling that stripped her medal, which was her first particular person Olympic trophy.
Hold scrolling for an entire timeline of Chiles’ bronze medal battle:
August 2024
Simone Biles, Rebecca Andrade and Jordan Chiles on the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Naomi Baker/Getty PhotosJordan Chiles was the final gymnast to compete within the ladies’s flooring finals of the person competitors, ending in fifth place behind Rebeca Andrade, Simone Biles, Ana Bărbosu and Sabrina Maneca-Voinea.
Whereas Group Romania requested for an inquiry to look into the problem of Maneca-Voinea’s routine, the enchantment was denied. The highest three finishers had been decided to be Andrade, Biles and Bărbosu earlier than Group USA submitted an inquiry into certainly one of Chiles’ strikes.
The Olympic judges accepted the American problem, which boosted Chiles from fifth place to 3rd.
Days later, the Romanian staff filed one other inquiry with the Court docket for Arbitration of Sport (CAS) and questioned the validity of Chiles’ problem. CAS discovered that Chiles’ coach, Cecile Canqueteau-Landisubmitted her inquiry 4 seconds after the deadline, which deemed the brand new rating void.
The CAS reallocated the bronze medal to Barbosu.
“Following the CAS determination with regard to the Ladies’s Inventive Gymnastics Ground Train Remaining and the modification of the rating by the Worldwide Gymnastics Federation, the IOC will reallocate the bronze medal to Ana Bărbosu,” a press release learn. “We’re in contact with the NOC of Romania to debate the reallocation ceremony and with USOPC concerning the return of the bronze medal.”
Chiles later mentioned in a social media assertion that she was devastated to lose the medal earlier than Group USA filed an enchantment with the Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC).
September 2024
When Jordan Chiles’ IOC enchantment was unsuccessful, she filed one other go well with with the Federal Supreme Court docket of Switzerland.
“The one said foundation for the ruling by CAS was its incorrect assertion that there was ‘no dispute’ that Chiles’s coach had been 4 seconds too late in making an inquiry to appropriate Chiles’s rating — though the judges on the ladies’s flooring finals had accepted and permitted that inquiry,” Chiles’ lawyer Maurice Suh mentioned in a press release. “However Chiles straight and repeatedly disputed that challenge on the arbitration listening to. Subsequent to the listening to, Chiles even submitted video footage which unequivocally proves that the inquiry was submitted on time.”
January 2026
The Federal Supreme Court docket of Switzerland granted a part of Jordan Chiles’ enchantmentruling that the Group USA video footage was admissible in court docket.
“Within the extremely distinctive circumstances of the case in query, it considers that there’s a chance for the audio-visual recording of the ultimate on 5 August 2024 to result in a modification of the contested award in favor of the candidates,” a press release from the court docket mentioned. “The CAS (Court docket of Arbitration for Sport) may think about, within the gentle of this audio-visual sequence, that the verbal inquiry made on behalf of Jordan Chiles had been made earlier than the expiry of the regulatory one-minute time restrict.”