United States’ gymnast Jordan Chiles has lost her bronze medal in the Paris Olympics women’s floor exercise after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ruled that the judging panel improperly granted an inquiry that moved her up from fifth.
As a result, 18-year-old Romanian Ana Barbosu was awarded the floor medal by the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG).
“I can barely express my emotions, I can’t believe it,” Barbosu told Romanian media after she was awarded her country’s only medal in the gymnastics competition.
“When I heard the news, I was afraid it wasn’t true, and once I was sure, I hugged my parents and called everyone who had helped me.”
In response to applications filed by the Romanian Gymnastics Federation and gymnasts Barbosu and Sabrina Maneca-Voinea, CAS ruled that the appeal of Chiles’ degree of difficulty was submitted past the one-minute deadline for such inquiries and should not have been granted.
