Jordan Chiles isn’t done trying to get her bronze medal back from the Paris Olympics.
The American gymnast filed a formal appeal with the Swiss Federal Tribunal on Monday in an attempt to overturn an earlier ruling by the Court of Arbitration for Sport that took away the bronze medal she won in the individual floor exercise in Paris earlier this summer.
“CAS violated Chiles’ fundamental ‘right to be heard’”
“Chiles asks the Supreme Court to find that the CAS decision was procedurally deficient for two reasons,” Chiles’ lawyers said in a statement, according to Olympics.com.
“First, CAS violated Chiles’ 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’ decision.
“Second, the entire CAS proceeding was unfair because Chiles was not properly informed that Hamid G. Gharavi, the President of the CAS panel that revoked Chiles’s bronze medal and awarded it instead to a Romanian gymnast, had a serious conflict of interest: Mr. Gharavi has acted as counsel for Romania for almost a decade and was actively representing Romania at the time of the CAS arbitration.
“Today’s appeal filing was supported by the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC), which filed a letter in support of Chiles’ appeal.”
USA Gymnastics said it was working closely with Chiles and her team in the “continued pursuit of justice for Jordan.”
Chiles gave her first sit-down interview about the incident this week during a panel at the Forbes Power Women’s Summit 2024 on Wednesday. The gymnast noticeably choked up when she was asked about the topic.
“To me, everything that has gone on is not about the medal, it’s about, you know, my skin color,” Chiles said, tearing up.
Chiles previously claimed she was facing racially driven attacks from social media users in a statement posted to X on Aug. 15. When Chiles won the bronze medal, it resulted in the first gymnastics podium in Olympic history that featured three Black contestants.