- American was demoted from third to fifth place
- USA Gymnastics had submitted new evidence
USA Gymnastics officials say an arbitration panel will not reconsider a decision asking the gymnast Jordan Chiles to return the bronze medal she won at the Paris Olympics.
Last week, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) voided an on-floor appeal from Chiles’s coach that was initially upheld and moved her from fifth to third in the floor exercise in Paris. Cas’s decision came after the Romanian Olympic Committee said the appeal came four seconds beyond the one-minute time limit for scoring inquiries. As a result, the International Gymnastics Federation (Fig) said Romania’s Ana Barbosu had been promoted to third and Chiles dropped back to fifth. The IOC said that Chiles had to return her medal as a result.
