Jordan Chiles Recalls Having Her Olympic Bronze Medal Revoked

Following a women’s gymnastics floor event at the 2024 Paris Olympics, Chiles was stripped of the bronze medal after her coach’s late scoring inquiry.

Gymnast Jordan Chiles has chosen to gracefully move on months after being stripped of a bronze medal during the 2024 Paris Olympics.

In an interview with CNN alongside 11-time Olympic medalist Simone Biles, Chiles reflected on the decision made by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in August. While Chiles’ team is in the process of having the decision overturned, the medal revoking came after a scoring inquiry from Chiles’ coach, Cecile Canqueteau-Landi, happened four seconds after the allotted time of one minute.

“Things can be really, really hard in your life and things may be stripped from you and you’re going to have to deal with that, and understand that you need to fight for what you’re fighting for,” Chiles told CNN anchor Coy Wire. “And that’s something that I’ve learned as well in the past three or four months just coming off of Paris.”

In September, Chiles’ lawyers filed an appeal with the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland after the bronze medal was given to Romanian gymnast Ana Bărbosu, who originally placed third in the floor exercise while Chiles was in fifth place.

As Chiles’ lawyers claimed in a press release, the “CAS violated Chiles’s fundamental ‘right to be heard’ by refusing to consider the video evidence that showed her inquiry was submitted on time — in direct contradiction to the findings in CAS’s decision.”

Chiles made her first public statement about the decision during the Forbes Power Women’s Summit on September 11, where she tearfully recounted how the medal stripping affected her.

“The biggest thing that was taken from me was that it was the recognition of who I was. Not just my sport, but the person I am. To me, everything that has gone on is not about the medal, it’s about my skin color,” she said.

“I felt like when I was back in 2018 where I did lose the love of the sport, I lost it again,” Chiles continued, adding, “I felt like I was really left in the dark.”