The Washington Post analyzed dozens of videos to examine the disputed inquiry, including footage from fans in the arena, television broadcasts and new video evidence in Chiles’s latest appeal. The link to the video evidence was later redacted from [the public filing](https://www.gibsondunn.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Jordan-Chiles-Appeal-Before-the-Swiss-Supreme-Court.pdf). Chiles’s lawyers did not respond to The Post’s questions about why it was redacted.
The Post’s review shows CAS ruled against Chiles based on time markers that don’t precisely match the sport’s protocol for inquiries. For the last gymnast in the rotation, the rule states a coach must verbally initiate an inquiry within one minute of the score being shown in the arena. The new video evidence, filmed by Religion of Sports, the documentary crew that followed Chiles’s teammate Simone Biles in Paris, captured audio of Landi asking for the inquiry within that minute.
As the last competitor in the floor final, Chiles finished her routine at 3:29 p.m. Rebeca Andrade of Brazil had the best score (14.166) with Biles just behind (14.133). Two Romanians, Barbosu and Sabrina Maneca-Voinea, had earned scores of 13.700, but Barbosu was in third place because the tiebreaker gives an edge to the gymnast with the higher execution score.
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For more than a month, debate over who finished third in the women’s floor final at the Paris Olympics has roiled the gymnastics community. On Aug. 5, Jordan Chiles received the bronze medal in Paris after her coach [successfully appealed](https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olympics/2024/08/05/jordan-chiles-bronze-olympics-score-appeal/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2) her score. Upon review, the judges increased Chiles’s mark by one-tenth, which moved her ahead of Romania’s Ana Barbosu. Nearly a week later, Chiles was [stripped of her medal after](https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olympics/2024/08/10/jordan-chiles-olympic-bronze-jeopardy-court/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2) the Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled her coach, Cecile Landi, did not initiate the decisive inquiry before the one-minute deadline. On Monday in Switzerland’s Supreme Court, Chiles [filed an appeal](https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olympics/2024/09/16/jordan-chiles-medal-appeal/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2) that raised procedural issues in the CAS hearing in hopes of overturning the decision and reclaiming the medal.
The Washington Post analyzed dozens of videos to examine the disputed inquiry, including footage from fans in the arena, television broadcasts and new video evidence in Chiles’s latest appeal. The link to the video evidence was later redacted from [the public filing](https://www.gibsondunn.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Jordan-Chiles-Appeal-Before-the-Swiss-Supreme-Court.pdf). Chiles’s lawyers did not respond to The Post’s questions about why it was redacted.
The Post’s review shows CAS ruled against Chiles based on time markers that don’t precisely match the sport’s protocol for inquiries. For the last gymnast in the rotation, the rule states a coach must verbally initiate an inquiry within one minute of the score being shown in the arena. The new video evidence, filmed by Religion of Sports, the documentary crew that followed Chiles’s teammate Simone Biles in Paris, captured audio of Landi asking for the inquiry within that minute.
As the last competitor in the floor final, Chiles finished her routine at 3:29 p.m. Rebeca Andrade of Brazil had the best score (14.166) with Biles just behind (14.133). Two Romanians, Barbosu and Sabrina Maneca-Voinea, had earned scores of 13.700, but Barbosu was in third place because the tiebreaker gives an edge to the gymnast with the higher execution score.
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