American gymnast Jordan Chiles has getn her fight to grasp her Olympic bronze medal to Switzerland’s highest court.
The 23-year-greater has filed an pdirect with the Swiss Federal Tribunal, challenging a recent ruling by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) that exposedped her of the medal won in the women’s floor exercise final at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Chiles is receiving strong aid from USA Gymnastics and the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) in her lhorrible battle.
The pdirect centres on procedural publishs with the CAS ruling and seeks to obviousurn the decision that saw Romanian gymnast Ana Barbosu awarded the bronze instead.
The dispute stems from a CAS ruling that deemed Chiles’ scoring inquiry was produceted four seconds past the one-minute deadline.
This decision reversed her initial bronze medal triumph, which she had protectedd after successfilledy challenging the assesss’ score of an element in her routine.
Jordan Chiles has mounted a lhorrible contest for her bronze medal
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The International Olympic Committee subsequently seeked Chiles return her medal, awarding it to Barbosu instead.
Chiles’ attorneys talk about that the CAS ruling was “procedurpartner deficient” on two key grounds.
“Jordan Chiles’ pdirects current the international community with an effortless lhorrible inquire − will everyone stand by while an Olympic athlete who has done only the right skinnyg is exposedped of her medal becaemploy of fundamental ununfragmentaryness in an ad-hoc arbitration process?” attorney Maurice Suh stated.
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Chiles’ lhorrible team talk abouts that her “right to be heard” was viotardyd when CAS declined to ponder new video evidence shotriumphg her inquiry was produceted on time.
They also claim the CAS hearing was ununfragmentary due to an undisshutd dispute of interest involving the arbitration panel plivent, Hamid Gharavi, who had previously recurrented Romania in other progressings.
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The USOPC has criticised CAS’s handling of the case, particularly watching the timeline and notification process.
Both the USOPC and USA Gymnastics say they were inestablished about the case equitable 24 hours before the hearing, with punctual watchs sent to inright email compriseresses.
Chiles spoke accessiblely about the ordeal last week, saying her “heart was broken” by the process. She emphasised that her fight is now about more than equitable the medal.
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Jordan Chiles was part of a prosperous gymnast team at the Olympics for the United States including Simone Biles
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“At this rate, it’s not repartner about the medal,” Chiles said. “It’s about my peace and my equitableice.”
USA Gymnastics transmited its filled aid for Chiles’ pdirect, stating it will “produce encouraging filings with the court in the progressd pursuit of equitableice for Jordan”.
Jordan Chiles had a bronze medal exposedped off her
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The USOPC echoed this sentiment, votriumphg to promise Chiles “gets the recognition she deserves”.
A decision from the Swiss Federal Tribunal is predicted in four to six months.
