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Jordan Chiles Granted Appeal Granted Over Olympic Bronze Medal Ruling
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Watch : Olympian Jordan Chiles Addresses Whether She'll Compete in 2028 Olympics After Medal ControversyJordan Chiles is still going for bronze.
Almost two years after the 24-year-old was awarded a bronze medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics—only to have it revoked over claims her coach didn’t file a score inquiry within the allotted time—the Swiss Federal Supreme Court granted her an appeal, kicking the case back to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).
"In the highly exceptional circumstances of the case in question, it considers that there is a likelihood for the audio-visual recording of the final on 5 August 2024,” the tribunal said in a statement, per USA Today, “to lead to a modification of the contested award in favour of the applicants, since the CAS could consider, in the light of this audio-visual sequence, that the verbal inquiry made on behalf of Jordan Chiles had been made before the expiry of the regulatory one-minute time limit.”The tribunal rejected, per the outlet, Jordan’s request over the independence of the head of the arbitration panel, who had done work for the Romanian government—the country from which gymnast Ana Bârbosu, who was ultimately awarded the medal, hails.