Team USA gymnast Jordan Chiles could be stripped of her bronze medal

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Published 2024-08-10
There’s a controversy brewing over bronze. Team USA gymnast Jordan Chiles could be stripped of the bronze medal she won for the floor final this week. The shakeup comes after a new ruling today puts a Romanian gymnast back in the third place slot. NBC News’ Liz Kreutz reports.

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All Comments (21)
  • @jn0391
    Judges should be ashamed of themselves for causing this mess in the first place. Make it right and give them both medals!
  • @sacredspace.
    this makes no sense whatsoever.  it was the judges fault to begin with for overlooking Jordan's performance and not giving her the 0.10 she earned when she performed her floor routine, thus placing her in her rightful spot as 3rd. The judges should be fired. This is so so wrong.
  • Award them both the bronze after everything they’ve been publicly put through because the judging panel didn’t properly do their jobs
  • @stevechance150
    Give both girls the Bronze. Seriously, what difference does two 3rd place awards make in the grand scheme of things.
  • @d.n.8919
    Both the U.S. and Romania have said they would be fine with awarding two bronze medals, as has been done before in cases like this. CAS is wilding. If the judges had actually judged correctly, then none of this would have happened because no inquiries would have been required for the gymnasts to receive accurate scores.
  • @WhitneyGadison1
    They better not take her medal away for something that wasn’t her fault. Just give them both bronze. USA gymnastics committee better fight for her to keep it.
  • @Swarat1962
    Award them both the bronze. You cant say that it was four seconds to late. That is a lame excuse. It makes no sense at all. The judges should have done their job in the first place and judge correctly. Shameful.
  • @lilasdavis102
    Give both the bronze. Would be heartless to take it away from one since it was neither girls fault.
  • Is there anything these folks have gotten right. This has been a disaster.
  • @ladze77
    they both get bronze, TF? its not that difficult
  • I can see Romania challenging solely based on the embarrassment of their athlete. The judges messed this one up and should let both women keep bronze purely from the embarrassment they both are experiencing now.
  • @laurasalva7256
    It was the judges' fault. Sometimes, it takes longer than 1 minute to see that the judges might have made a mistake. Jordan deserves that bronze. She earned it. She should not lose what she has earned because of the judges' mistakes. Those judges are looking so stupid at the moment. PLEASE LET HER KEEP IT!!!!
  • @tudorcristescu
    Honestly the judges are 100% at fault. The real loser is the Romanian gymnast Sabrina Maneca-Voinea who came in 5th. The judges incorrectly penalized her for stepping out of bounds when she didn't. Her score would've been 13.800, higher than Barbosu's and higher than Chiles' score including her inquiry. Smh give all three of them bronze atp.
  • @Emotochan3
    I was devastated to see the Romanian girl's heartbreak on live tv and thought the Olympics and live coverage did her real dirty for that. It seemed a part of the rules, though, and it might've been a lesson on celebrating prematurely, but still awful. Now, to do that to another amazingly hardworking girl, they should let them both keep it and reevaluate themselves. Rediculous the mental toll they are putting on both.
  • @shad0wCh8ser
    Everyone lost with this one... even if the other girl gets the medal, she lost the podium moment. And even if Chiles missed 4 secs from the require 1 min, it doesn't mean she didn't complete the routine that was the winning one or scored enough points for the bronze —which meant she did still earn it. So even if they did give the bronze to the Romanian Gymnast, she still scored less than Chiles. Basically, the take a way is the Judges and officials messed up as they didn't score correctly in the first places and no one checked to see if they were withing the 1 min mark. So they made this mess up but both gymnast suffered.
  • @S.A.1
    Four seconds too late is the same as disqualifying Indian Wrestler from appearing in gold medal match for being 100gms overweight. Yes 100 GRAMS
  • I remember in the Tokyo Olympics the women weightlifters, Philippines vs China, were competing in the clean and jerk. China finally reached the point where she couldn't make the lift. The Philippine woman made the lift, holding the weight over her head until the judges waved her off. As it turned out one judge said she was still moving, so they made her come out and do the lift a second time. She made it and won the first Gold Medal for her country in its 99-year history of Olympic competition! Another horrible judging job, just like this one against Jordan Chiles. These judges need to stop picking their nose and learn how to do their job the right way, the first time.
  • @mylilpc
    This is an injustice. There should be a rule that states judges can’t retract a medal based on a technicality like this. She was the better athlete! The Olympics is about sportsmanship, the judges made a mistake twice at this point. The initial ruling and deciding to take the inquiry 4 mins late if they weren’t supposed to were their mistakes. The fact of the matter is they wouldn’t even have to have submitted the inquiry if the judges were doing their job right in the first place. This is a perfect of example of sports in service to rules rather than rules in service to sports. One minute to catch a mistake and submit an inquiry is a rule that has nothing to do with the competition outside of time efficiency for the logistics of flow of the competition. Having the option to challenge the rulings makes the competition more fair because there is obviously human error. Getting to the right and fair judgement should always be the priority over an auxiliary time technicality.
  • @Nat524Ricci
    If they can reverse decisions they should reverse the women’s synchronized divers from China getting gold. They were NOT synchronized at all. Total favoritism by the judges. AND the women’s paraolympic swimmers - the 12 year old with NO ARMS won bronze third place but they gave bronze to the 4th place athlete. It’s SO obvious, I watched it over and over again. Outrageous. If the judges can do things like this, it completely voids the entire point of the Olympics!!!!!!!!! Disgraceful