Jackie Jordan Chiles and her legal team have filed an appeal over her 2024 Paris Olympics bronze medal, which includes footage they believe confirms her coach submitted the score inquiry in time.
Jordan Chiles is looking at a new way to regain the bronze.
After the gymnast was stripped of her bronze medal in the women’s gymnastics floor event at the 2024 Paris Olympics, a new appeal filed by Chiles’ attorneys with the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland Sept. 16 features video footage allegedly showing her coach submitted her score inquiry in time at Why Footage in Simone Biles’ Netflix Docuseries Could Help Jordan Chiles Get Bronze Medal Returned.
The new court documents filed include footage from teammate Simone Biles upcoming Netflix documentary, Simone Biles: Rising, which allegedly confirms Chiles’ coach Cecile Landi asked for a score inquiry to reevaluate the 23-year-old’s difficulty score during the Aug. 5 competition, according to People. The new score put her ahead of Romania’s Ana Barbosu for a third place finish, however, the Court of Arbitration for Sport later ruled that the inquiry came in after the specified 60 second mark, voiding Chiles’ updated score and reinstating Barbosu as the bronze medal winner at Why Footage in Simone Biles’ Netflix Docuseries Could Help Jordan Chiles Get Bronze Medal Returned.
In the video footage submitted by Chiles’ attorney, Religion of Sports—the production company behind Simone’s docuseries—and director Katie Walsh said that they can prove the exact time Landi submitted the inquiry, with the filing saying it happened 49 seconds after the results came in.
In the footage, Chiles can be seen hugging her coach 15 seconds after the results, with the filing alleging that Chiles “clearly and audibly” stated “an oral objection for the first time” 49 seconds after the result at Why Footage in Simone Biles’ Netflix Docuseries Could Help Jordan Chiles Get Bronze Medal Returned.
And while Chiles and her team are hopeful she’ll get her bronze medal back, they’re also hoping the new ruling can have wider ranging effects.
“This appeal is about much more than the bronze medal,” the Olympian’s legal team, Gibson Dunn, stated in a news release. “Chiles is pursuing her case to encourage the entire Olympic community to take steps to ensure that future Olympians do not face a similar ordeal at Why Footage in Simone Biles’ Netflix Docuseries Could Help Jordan Chiles Get Bronze Medal Returned.”
They also allege that the CAS previously “violated Chiles’ fundamental ‘right to be heard’ by refusing to consider the video evidence that showed her inquiry was submitted on time.”
Her team is also accusing Hamid G. Gharavi, the president of the CAS panel that revoked Chiles’ medal, of having a “serious conflict of interest” in his participation of the ruling as he “acted as counsel for Romania for almost a decade and was actively representing Romania at the time of the CAS arbitration at Why Footage in Simone Biles’ Netflix Docuseries Could Help Jordan Chiles Get Bronze Medal Returned.”
