CAS blames gymnastics officials for Jordan Chiles controversy, USOPC rips panel's detailed release

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Twists, turns and flips are usually left to the gymnasts at the Olympics and not the officials dealing with sorting out whether one or three athletes receives the bronze medal.

On Wednesday night, the Center of Arbitration for Sport’s (CAS) and the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) fired off sharp words about the Paris Olympic floor exercise debacle.

The CAS said the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) failed American Jordan Chiles and Romanians Ana Barbosu and Sabrina Maneca-Voinea and its hands were tied in awarding medals.

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"If the FIG had put such a mechanism or arrangement in place, a great deal of heartache would have been avoided," the CAS’ ad-hoc panel said in a release. "The Panel expresses the hope that the FIG will draw the consequences of this case, in relation to these three extraordinary Athletes and also for other Athletes and their supporting personnel, in the future, so that this never happens again."

Jordan Chiles of the United States in action at the Paris Olympics. (REUTERS/Hannah Mckay)

While the Romanian Gymnastics Federation has called for all three gymnasts to receive a bronze medal, the CAS said its hands were tied by FIG rules and could not have made that decision.

"The Panel finds that the Applicants failed to demonstrate the application of the ‘fair play principle’ in support of the relief sought. Admitting such a request would, as set out by the IOC at the Hearing, require the Panel to apply principles of equity, whereas the Panel is required to apply rules of law, unless the Parties have agreed otherwise, which in this case they have