Jordan Chiles isn't giving up. After losing her appeal to reinstate her bronze medal win at the 2024 Paris Olympics , the Team USA gymnast shared that she isn't done fighting for her third-place standing. "I am now confronted with one of the most challenging moments of my career.
Believe me when I say I have had many," Chiles explained in a statement shared to her X (formerly Twitter) on Aug. 15. "I will approach this challenge as I have others—and will make every effort to ensure justice is done.
" And the 23-year-old has hope that the outcome of her battle will be positive, noting, "I believe at the end of this journey, the people in control will do the right thing." Chiles was stripped of her bronze medal for her individual floor routine earlier this month after the International Olympics Committee ruled her coach had disputed her original 3.666 score—which had placed her fifth in the competition's ranking—past the one-minute deadline required by FIG (International Gymnastics Federation).
The committee's decision reallocated the medal to Romania's Ana Barbosu . Since the rejection, USA Gymnastics has continued in its efforts to maintain Chiles' updated 13.766 score .
As part of the mission, the organization submitted "time-stamped" video evidence that was meant to prove her coach had filed the request to re-evaluate her score within the one-minute parameter and called into question Court of Arbitration for Sports' (CAS) procedure in notifying the organizations in a ti.