American gymnast Jordan Chiles was stripped of her Olympic bronze medal in the floor exercise after the Court of Arbitration for Sport voided an appeal from Chiles' coach that vaulter her onto the podium. CAS ruled Saturday that the appeal by U.S.
coach Cecile Landi to have 0.1 added to Chiles' score, which boosted her from fifth to third, came outside the 1-minute window allowed by the International Gymnastics Federation. FIG announced later Saturday that the initial finishing order has been restored, with Romania's Ana Barbosu placing third, her teammate Sabrina Maneca-Voinea placing fourth and Chiles finishing fifth.
CAS left FIG to determine the final ranking in accordance of their ruling. Rebeca Andrade of Brazil won gold in the event while Simone Biles of the U.S.
won silver. The Romanian Olympic Committee had asked for three bronze medals to be awarded. Before the final decision was announced, Chiles post on her Instagram story Saturday saying she was heartbroken and was "taking this time and removing myself from social media for my mental health, thank you.
" Chiles' teammate Suni Lee also reacted to the situation in an Instagram story, writing, "all this talk about the athlete, what about the judges?? completely unacceptable. this is awful and i'm gutted for Jordan. .
.. u have all my flowers and you will ALWAYS be an olympic champion.
" Barbosu and Maneca-Voinea were initially left outside the medals in Monday's floor final after finishing with matching scores of 13.70.