
US Gymnast Jordan Chiles Must Return Bronze Medal, Olympic Committee Says
Published on August 11, 2024
U.S. gymnast Jordan Chiles must return the bronze medal she won in the Paris Olympics floor exercise last week after the sport’s highest court rejected an appeal by Chiles’s coach that vaulted Chiles to third place over Romanian gymnast Ana Barbosu, said the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Sunday. The IOC confirmed the reallocation of the medal less than 24 hours after the Court of Arbitration for Sport voided an appeal from Chiles’s coach during Monday’s competition, which had resulted in a score change. The IOC said that it “will reallocate the bronze medal to Ana Barbosu (Romania),” in a statement on Sunday....
