American Olympic gymnastics star Jordan Chiles and her authorized workforce filed an enchantment with the Federal Supreme Court docket of Switzerland over the bronze medal scandal that has overshadowed the Video games.
Chiles was awarded the bronze medal within the flooring train routine on the finish of the Paris Video games when her coaches filed a rating inquiry after her efficiency. Chiles was elevated from fifth to 3rd place. However Romanian officers introduced their very own enchantment to the Middle of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), which overturned Chiles’ rating and stripped her of a medal.
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Jordan Chiles celebrates together with her medals. (Reuters/Hannah Mckay)
Now, Chiles and her legal professionals are going to the next court docket.
“Chiles asks the Supreme Court docket to search out that the CAS choice was procedurally poor for 2 causes,” Chiles’ legal professionals stated in a press release, in accordance to Olympics.com.
“First, CAS violated Chiles’ elementary ‘proper to be heard’ by refusing to think about the video proof that confirmed her inquiry was submitted on time – in direct contradiction to the findings in CAS’ choice.
“Second, the whole CAS continuing was unfair as a result of Chiles was not correctly knowledgeable that Hamid G. Gharavi, the President of the CAS panel that revoked Chiles’s bronze medal and awarded it as an alternative to a Romanian gymnast, had a severe battle of curiosity: Mr. Gharavi has acted as counsel for Romania for nearly a decade and was actively representing Romania on the time of the CAS arbitration.
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Jordan Chiles competes within the Paris Olympics at Bercy Enviornment on Aug. 5, 2024. (Naomi Baker/Getty Photos)
“As we speak’s enchantment submitting was supported by the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC), which filed a letter in assist of Chiles’ enchantment.”
USA Gymnastics stated it was working intently with Chiles and her workforce within the “continued pursuit of justice for Jordan.”
Chiles gave her first sit-down interview concerning the incident this week throughout a panel on the Forbes Energy Girls’s Summit 2024 on Wednesday. The gymnast noticeably choked up when she was requested concerning the matter.
“To me, the whole lot that has gone on just isn’t concerning the medal, it is about, , my pores and skin colour,” Chiles stated, tearing up.
Chiles beforehand claimed she was dealing with “racially pushed assaults” from social media customers in a press release posted to X on Aug. 15. When Chiles received the bronze medal, it resulted within the first gymnastics podium in Olympic historical past that featured three Black contestants.
Jordan Chiles on the Paris Olympics on Aug. 5, 2024. (Reuters/Hannah Mckay)
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“It is concerning the truth that there have been issues which have led as much as this place of being an athlete and I felt like the whole lot has been stripped.”
Fox Information’ Jackson Thompson contributed to this report.
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