U.S. gymnast Jordan Chiles said video evidence of the Paris Olympics floor exercise final proves she followed the rules and should be taken into consideration by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) as she continues her battle to regain the bronze medal.
Chiles was forced to give up the medal when CAS last month ruled in favour of an appeal by Romanian gymnast Ana Maria Barbosu, who was subsequently awarded the bronze even though Chiles was given the medal at the ceremony.Barbosu and her team had appealed to CAS that an inquiry filed by the U.S.
team over the results of the floor exercise had been registered four seconds after the one-minute deadline allowed by the International Gymnastics Federation.
On the day of the floor final, Chiles was promoted from fifth to third as her score was increased from 13.666 to 13.766 after one of her coaches submitted an inquiry.