USA Gymnastics Says It Has Video Evidence to Prove Jordan Chiles Was Wrongly Stripped of Her Medal

USA Gymnastics announced Sunday that it has video evidence proving conclusively that an appeal of Jordan Chiles’ scoring in the women’s floor exercise Olympic competition was submitted in the time allotted. Therefore, she should retain her bronze medal.
Chiles had been awarded the bronze on Aug. 5 after coach Cecile Landi appealed, saying the difficulty score for the routine the gymnast had received was not correctly calculated.
“The challenge was successful, and Chiles’ score was bumped from 13.666 (fifth place) to 13.766 (third place),” Sports Illustrated reported.

The new score pushed Romanian gymnast Ana Barbosu into fourth place, and Chiles received her medal.

Gold medalist Rebeca Andrade celebrates on the podium with silver medalist Simone Biles and bronze medalist Jordan Chiles during the medal ceremony for the women’s floor exercise at the #Paris202 …