On Sunday night, Team USA revealed that they’d formally appealed CAS’s resolution to strip the 23-year-old of her Olympic bronze medal, awarding it as an alternative to Romania’s Ana Barbosu.
“USA Gymnastics on Sunday formally submitted a letter and video proof to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, conclusively establishing that Head Coach Cecile Landi’s request to file an inquiry was submitted 47 seconds after the publishing of the rating, throughout the one-minute deadline required by [Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique, or FIG] rule,” the assertion reads, per People.
Chiles secured the bronze medal for Team USA on Monday, August 5, after her coach, Cecile Landi, made an inquiry with the judges to regulate the issue of Chiles’s routine. Upon overview, and with reconsideration of the abilities which decide the issue degree, judges decided that Chiles’s rating was 13.766, not 13.666, as they’d first posted. With the corrected rating, Chiles moved from fifth to 3rd place, forward of Romanian gymnasts Ana Barbosu and Sabrina Maneca-Voinea, who each acquired a rating of 13.700. (Barbosu eclipsed Maneca-Voinea within the tie-breaker.)
Rebeca Andrade of Brazil was awarded the gold medal, whereas Simone Biles took residence the silver for Team USA.
Four days after the competitors, on Friday, August 9, Romania’s Olympic Committee appealed the correction with the International Olympic Committee (IOC), claiming that Landi had not submitted her inquiry throughout the one-minute deadline which is required by FIG. Per the criticism, Landi was 4 seconds over the deadline. In its August 11 assertion, nevertheless, Team USA says that video proof they’ve submitted clearly “reveals Landi first said her request to file an inquiry on the inquiry desk 47 seconds after the rating is posted, adopted by a second assertion 55 seconds after the rating was initially posted.”
