PARIS — American gymnast Jordan Chiles could be stripped of her bronze medal in the floor exercise after the Court of Arbitration for Sport concluded that was filed after the one-minute allowable time limit. As such, Chiles’ score has been dropped from 13.766 to her original 13.
666, lower than Romania’s Ana Barbosa, who scored a 13.700 — which would be the third highest. It is now up to the Federation of International Gymnastics to “determine the rankings of the floor exercise and assign the medal(s) in accordance with the [CAS] decision.
” It is a significant decision based on the most arcane of rules. Chiles’ coach, Cecile Landi, originally filed an appeal of Chiles score when she believed that the judges failed to properly score Chiles' degree of difficulty. Landi believed the judges failed to notice Chiles performed a split leap — or a tour jete full in gymnastics parlance — and gave her a 5.
800 difficulty score rather than a proper 5.900. The judges, upon review, agreed and .
It was a crushing blow to Barbosa, who had begun to celebrate her medal and was waving a Romanian flag to cheering fans when the appeal decision dropped her to fourth. The Romanians cried foul, including legendary Olympic champion Nadia Comaneci, who said it was unfair and mentally unhealthy to Barbosa how the decision played out. Now the CAS has ruled that Landi did not file the inquiry in a quick enough manner.
It neither overruled the appeal decision nor said that Chiles’ new s.