Jordan Chiles of the United States competes in the women's gymnastics attic final in Paris. / Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports |
As the 2024 Olympic Games clearly appear to a abutting Sunday in Paris, the final destination of one badge has yet to be clearly settled.
Shortly afterwards International Olympic Committee accepted Sunday that American aerialist Jordan Chiles needs to acknowledgment her brownish badge she won in the women's attic final, the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee issued a account declaring it affairs to address the decision.
"The USOPC will be ambrosial the Contempo accommodation fabricated by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) apropos Jordan Chiles," the alignment said in a account Sunday. "We durably accept that Jordan appropriately becoming the brownish medal, and there were analytical errors in both the antecedent scoring by the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) and the consecutive CAS address action that charge to be addressed."
When Chiles initially denticulate a 13.666 in the attic final—which landed her in fifth abode in the competition—her drillmaster Cecile Landi appealed the gymnast's adversity account and won the challenge, advocacy her to third abode (13.766). However, altercation emerged a few canicule afterwards the antagonism aback the Romanian Federation of Gymnastics filed a beef advertence that Landi challenged the account afterwards the accustomed one-minute time limit. The International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) and the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) disqualified Saturday in the RFG's favor, bottomward Chiles's account aback to fifth place, and the IOC ordered the aerialist to acknowledgment the brownish badge on Sunday.
"The antecedent absurdity occurred in the scoring by FIG, and the additional absurdity was during the CAS address process, area the USOPC was not accustomed able time or apprehension to finer claiming the decision," the USOPC said in a statement. "As a result, we were not appropriately represented or afforded the befalling to present our case comprehensively.
"Given these circumstances, we are committed to advancing an address to ensure that Jordan Chiles receives the acceptance she deserves. We abide committed to acknowledging her as an Olympic best and will abide to assignment agilely to boldness this amount apace and fairly."
This isn't the aboriginal time in Olympics history that a anticipation absurdity acquired altercation about a medal. In the 2002 Games in Salt Lake City, a French adjudicator accepted to agreement a Russian skating brace aboriginal in the antagonism to adjustment to defended a Russian judge's vote for a French aggregation in a approaching event. To broadcast the scandal, the IOC awarded two gold medals to Canada and Russia instead of demography the accolade abroad from the Russians.
