Jordan Chiles has revealed her plan to get into real estate once her gymnastics career comes to a close.
Chiles has not disclosed her timeline from moving off the balance beam and vault permanently. Her success from this past summer has clearly been on Chiles’ mind.
After becoming a huge star while representing Team USA in gymnastics at the Summer Olympics in Paris, Chiles has not kept a low profile.
She lost her bronze medal in the floor exercise competition after an appeal from Romania and Chiles has appeared at several high-profile events around the country.
Chiles is only 23 and has not declared her intentions for the Los Angeles Olympics in 2028. Chiles will be 27 if she competes at the next Olympiad to be held in the United States, the same age Simone Biles was this summer.
‘The future is such a huge word, but there are so many things that you can do within that future,’ Chiles said over the weekend. ‘Well, whenever that happens, I’m going to go into real estate. I love building. I love being creative. I love seeing things just be designed in different ways. That’s one thing.’
Olympic champion Jordan Chiles has stated she wants to get into real estate after she retires
Chiles spoke at the Teen Vogue Summit over the weekend about her future and much more
Chiles also spoke about her personal brand and how she wanted it to be viewed.
‘Do I want to become an actress? 100%. Do I want to sing? Sure. I can say all those things, but in reality, I think it’s just continuing to make a brand for myself and to make sure everybody understands that Jordan Chiles is Jordan Chiles, not just as an athlete, but also as a human.’
Chiles is only 23, the same age as many in their first years out of college. Having a plan for her future is a step in the right direction for her life outside of athletics.
‘When I was younger, I thought success was just going to school every day. I was like, “Oh yes, I’m successful. I got an A on my test. Yes.” No, now that I’m older, there’s a lot of things that go into success.’
‘You can be successful not only within your brand but also with things that you do around yourself, with people, with jobs, with a career, with hobbies.’
‘And also, I still to this day don’t consider myself famous. I don’t consider myself a celebrity. I don’t consider myself anything because I feel like I still have more to do within my community, more to do within myself.’
‘I need to mature. There’s a lot of things. So yes, I look at success differently.’
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Olympic champion Jordan Chiles reveals plan for major career change after gymnastics
Jordan Chiles and USA Gymnastics filed separate appeals Tuesday in the fight to reclaim the gymnast’s bronze medal from the floor exercise final at the 2024 Paris Olympics, with both asking a Swiss court to re-open the case and order that new video evidence be considered.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport’s decision that resulted in Chiles being stripped of her medal on the final day of the Paris Games was based on a “critical factual error” that her scoring inquiry was filed four seconds too late, the gymnast’s attorneys said in a statement Tuesday announcing the filing. If the case is going to be decided “fairly and accurately,” they said, CAS needs to consider video and audio evidence showing Chiles filed her scoring inquiry in time.
“We believe that CAS must consider the complete audio and video record that shows that Jordan without doubt followed all the rules on the floor and in her inquiry. Failing to do so would be fundamentally unfair and unjust,” Maurice M. Suh, Chiles’ U.S.-based attorney, said in the statement.
In a parallel filing, USA Gymnastics also asked the Swiss Federal Tribunal to re-open the case, citing the video evidence.
“The audiovisual evidence which CAS refused to consider clearly proves Jordan’s bronze-medal finish in Paris was correct,” USA Gymnastics said in a statement. “With today’s filing, we are simply asking that the CAS arbitration be decided based on a true and accurate understanding of facts. As Jordan has publicly stated, the case at this point is about her peace and justice, and the right of all athletes to be treated fairly.”
The new filing by Chiles’ attorneys makes similar arguments to their previous appeal filed last week, which asked the Swiss Federal Tribunal to set aside the CAS ruling.
Chiles’ team filed separate appeals because of lingering questions over when the CAS ruling went into effect. Key video footage, which shows coach Cecile Landi making two verbal inquiries before the 60-second deadline, was discovered after CAS announced its ruling Aug. 10 but before it announced a detailed explanation of the decision Aug.14. Chiles’ lawyers are arguing that the footage either constitutes new evidence, if the decision went into effect Aug. 10, or was unfairly ignored by CAS, if the decision wasn’t final until Aug. 14.
In that filing, Chiles’ attorneys cited three flaws in the process:
Evidence discovered a day after the Aug. 10 CAS ruling – video from the makers of Simone Biles’ Netflix documentary showing coach Cecile Landi making two verbal inquiries before the 60-second deadline – undercuts the basis for the CAS decision. USA Gymnastics tried to present the evidence, but CAS said it was too late.
Chiles, USA Gymnastics and the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee did not have enough time to prepare for the CAS hearing, less than 24 hours, because CAS was sending emails to wrong or outdated addresses. This despite CAS and the USOPC being in communication during the Paris Olympics related to an Aug. 7 ceremony where U.S. figure skaters finally got their medals from the team competition at the 2022 Beijing Games.
The president of the arbitration panel has represented the Romanian government in financial disputes since 2016, including in at least two cases that are ongoing. Though Hamid Gharavi disclosed the relationship and promised to be independent, the Americans did not even know about the potential conflict of interest until several days after the hearing.
Chiles was moved into third place after challenging the judges’ score of one of the elements in her routine, then bumped back down to fifth days later after CAS ruled the challenge was submitted four seconds too late. The International Olympic Committee has since asked Chiles to return her bronze medal and awarded one to Ana Barbosu of Romania, the gymnast who was elevated to third after the CAS ruling.
The Swiss tribunal usually overturns CAS decisions only in cases where there was a blatant procedural violation, lack of jurisdiction or incompatibility with Swiss public policy. But Chiles’ attorney said after her initial filing that the CAS decision casts doubt on the entire arbitration process.
“Jordan Chiles’ appeals present the international community with an easy legal question − will everyone stand by while an Olympic athlete who has done only the right thing is stripped of her medal because of fundamental unfairness in an ad-hoc arbitration process?” Suh said in a statement last week. “The answer to that question should be no. Every part of the Olympics, including the arbitration process, should stand for fair play.”
Promising as the video evidence backing Jordan Chiles’ claim to her bronze medal is, it never should have come to this.
And nothing can ever undo the damage that’s been done or the heartache she’s suffered.
Her bronze medal on floor exercise at the Paris Games should be the crowning personal achievement of Chiles’ career, her first individual medal in two Olympic appearances. Instead, it’s been tainted by legal wranglings and online abuse, her joy and pride now forever colored by disappointment and hurt.
All because other people, people whose jobs it is to know better, screwed up in almost every way imaginable.
The International Gymnastics Federation. The Court of Arbitration for Sport. Even Romanian officials, who trampled over Chiles in their zeal to get for their athletes something they did not deserve.
Chiles and her coach followed the rules, as the video submitted with her appeal filed Monday so clearly shows. Yet Chiles is the one who’s been punished, stripped of her medal — for now — not because of anything she did but because of the incompetence and ineptitude of others.
“Jordan Chiles’ appeals present the international community with an easy legal question — will everyone stand by while an Olympic athlete who has done only the right thing is stripped of her medal because of fundamental unfairness in an ad-hoc arbitration process? The answer to that question should be no,” Maurice M. Suh, counsel for Chiles, said in the statement Monday announcing her appeal to the Swiss Federal Tribunal.
“Every part of the Olympics, including the arbitration process, should stand for fair play.”
And nothing about this process has been fair.
Chiles initially finished fifth in the floor exercise, her score of 13.666 putting her behind Romanians Ana Barbosu and Sabrina Maneca-Voineau. (The Romanians had identical scores of 13.7, but Barbosu placed higher because of a better execution score.) But Cecile Landi, who is Chiles’ personal coach in addition to being the U.S. coach in Paris, appealed her difficulty score, arguing Chiles had not been given full credit for a tour jete, a leap.
A review panel agreed, and the additional 0.100 elevated the American ahead of both Romanians into third place.
That’s when things went sideways.
Romania appealed, submitting several different arguments before settling on the claim that Chiles’ inquiry was filed too late. The Court of Arbitration for Sport sided with the Romanians, ruling that the official timing system showed Chiles’ inquiry had been made four seconds past the 60-second deadline.
But the rules are a gymnast has 60 seconds after a score is posted to make a verbal inquiry, not that the inquiry must show up in the system within 60 seconds. That might seem like splitting hairs, but it’s not. Common sense tells you making a verbal inquiry and registering it are not simultaneous, yet the CAS ruling made the assumption they were.
We know now they were not. The video shows Landi saying, “Inquiry for Jordan!” twice within the 60-second deadline. If there was a delay in registering it, that isn’t Chiles’ fault and can’t be held against her.
As for why CAS didn’t have that video during its hearing, add that to the list of the tribunal’s failings.
Chiles, USA Gymnastics and the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee didn’t know for three days that they were parties to the Romanians’ appeal because CAS was using either wrong or outdated emails. How this was possible, given the USOPC and CAS had been in frequent communication throughout the Games about a medals ceremony in Paris for U.S. figure skaters and the wrong emails were generating bounce-back messages, begs belief. You almost have to try to be that incompetent.
When the Americans finally were informed, it was less than 24 hours before the CAS hearing. There is no way to read the many documents in the case, analyze the arguments, craft a response and prepare for a hearing in that amount of time.
There also was need to. Contrary to Romania’s claim about the need for a quick decision so the medals table would be accurate before the end of the Games, nothing demanded urgency in this case. The floor exercise medals had already been awarded. The gymnastics competition was over. No one’s ability to participate was at stake. There would have been no material difference in a decision made on Oct. 10 from one made on Aug. 10.
Except that maybe it would have given the CAS arbitrators time to have gotten it right. And Chiles wouldn’t have been put through an emotional wringer.
“My heart was broken,” she said last week during an appearance at the Forbes Power Women’s Summit.
This all could have been avoided. And even if Chiles does get the title of bronze medalist back, as she should, it can never make up for everything else she lost.
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Jordan Chiles appealed a court decision that moved her from third place back to fifth in the Olympic floor exercise final over the timing of an inquiry into her initial score.
On Aug. 5, Chiles won the Olympic floor exercise bronze medal after a U.S. inquiry into her difficulty score led to the score being raised by one tenth. That moved her from fifth place into bronze-medal position, passing Romanians Sabrina Voinea and Ana Barbosu.
After a Romanian appeal, a CAS panel on Aug. 10 reverted Chiles’ score because the scoring inquiry was recorded as submitted four seconds past the one-minute time limit. Chiles was moved back to fifth place. Barbosu became the bronze medalist.
On Aug. 15, Chiles called the decision “devastating” and that it felt “unjust” in a social media post.
Rulings by CAS, which is headquartered in Switzerland, can be appealed to Swiss federal court on limited procedural grounds.
One of the law firms representing Chiles is asking the Swiss court to find the CAS decision “was procedurally deficient” for two reasons it specified:
CAS refused to consider video evidence found on Aug. 11 that showed the inquiry was submitted on time. (A video, with the aid of footage from a Simone Biles documentary filming, was submitted with Monday’s appeal. In it, Chiles’ score comes up. Her coaches briefly discuss making an inquiry. Then one of her coaches is heard (but not seen) saying “inquiry for Jordan” twice and another time saying “for Jordan” before the one-minute time limit.)
Chiles was not properly informed that CAS panel chair Hamid Gharavi had a conflict of interest. Gharavi “has acted as counsel for Romania for almost a decade and was actively representing Romania at the time of the CAS arbitration,” according to the law firm.
“Given these undeniable deficiencies, Chiles asks the Federal Supreme Court to reinstate the score that she rightfully earned at the floor event final,” the law firm wrote.
The firm also said Chiles was informed of the CAS hearing “a few hours before it began” and “did not receive the necessary time and opportunity to prepare any defense.”
The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee previously said CAS sent emails to incorrect addresses at the USOPC and USA Gymnastics up until less than 24 hours before the hearing and two days past the deadline to submit objections.
CAS previously said it disclosed that Gharavi represents Romania “in investment arbitrations” and that Gharavi’s inclusion on the panel was not objected to before or through the end of the proceedings.
In a statement Monday, USA Gymnastics said it “made a collective, strategic decision to have Jordan lead the initial filing. USAG is closely coordinating with Jordan and her legal team and will make supportive filings with the court in the continued pursuit of justice for Jordan.”
The USOPC said in a Monday statement, “In collaboration with Jordan’s counsel and USA Gymnastics, we are pursuing a coordinated approach, with Jordan’s team leading the initial appeal. Due to the egregious errors and oversight by CAS in handling the case and overlooking clear evidence of Jordan’s rightful bronze win, we are determined to ensure she receives the recognition she deserves. Our commitment to truth in this matter remains steadfast.”
The fight continues in Jordan Chiles’ quest to get her Olympic bronze medal back.
Chiles officially filed an appeal in Switzerland’s Supreme Court as she fights to get a ruling by the Court of Arbitration for Sport that stripped her of a third-place finish in the women’s gymnastics floor final overturned.
The drama over the bronze medal has lasted long after the Summer Olympics came to a close last month in Paris as the issue has exited the sporting arena and entered the legal one.
Jordan Chiles of United States in action during the Paris Olympics. REUTERS
Chiles’ legal representation said in a press release that the American gymnast was asking the court to overturn the decision made by the CAS since issues with procedure had violated her “right to be heard” and she was not properly informed over a potential conflict of interest by the president of the CAS panel who ruled on her case.
Hamid Gharavi had previously represented Romania, which was the country of competitor Ana Barbosu, in legal proceedings.
“Jordan Chiles’ appeals present the international community with an easy legal question — will everyone stand by while an Olympic athlete who has done only the right thing is stripped of her medal because of fundamental unfairness in an ad-hoc arbitration process? The answer to that question should be no. Every part of the Olympics, including the arbitration process, should stand for fair play,” Chiles’ attorney Maurice M. Suh said in a statement.
USA Gymnastics expressed its support for the appeal in a statement of its own and the organization said that it made the “collective” and “strategic decision” for Chiles’ legal team to make the initial appeal filing.
“USAG is closely coordinating with Jordan and her legal team and will make supportive filings with the court in the continued pursuit of justice for Jordan,” the statement said.
The saga surrounding the bronze medal has created a drawn-out battle that has had many twists and turns.
Jordan Chiles, of the United States, holds up her medals after the women’s artistic gymnastics individual apparatus finals Bercy Arena at the 2024 Summer Olympics. AP
Chiles had the bronze stripped by the CAS after it ruled that the score appeal that occurred during the women’s floor final had not come within the one-minute deadline and they modified the score which awarded Barbosu third place.
American officials have raised procedural issues with how the CAS handled the hearing, including how USA Gymnastics wasn’t officially notified of Romania’s appeal for several days and the CAS failed to make contact with the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee until the day before the hearing.
The Swiss court can only hear an appeal for limited reasons based on procedural issues.
Silver medallist US’ Simone Biles (R) and bronze medallist US’ Jordan Chiles celebrate at the end of the artistic gymnastics women’s floor exercise. AFP via Getty Images
Chiles will file an additional appeal “seeking additional and alternative relief from the Swiss Federal Supreme Court” and both appeals could lead to a retrial in the CAS, the press release from the gymnast’s attorney indicated.
American gymnast Jordan Chiles is asking Switzerland’s Supreme Court to overturn a ruling by the Court of Arbitration for Sport that stripped Chiles of a bronze medal in floor exercise at the 2024 Olympics.
Chiles, with the support of the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee and USA Gymnastics, filed the appeal on Monday, a little over a month after CAS voided an on-floor appeal by Chiles’ coach Cecile Landi during the event finals on Aug. 5 that vaulted Chiles from fifth to third.
CAS, following a hearing requested by Romanian officials, ruled Landi’s appeal came 4 seconds beyond the 1-minute time limit for scoring inquiries and recommended the initial finishing order be restored. The International Gymnastics Federation complied and the International Olympic Committee ended up awarding bronze to Romanian Ana Barbosu on Aug. 16.
Jordan Chiles is returning to social media after her Olympic bronze medal controversy. The 23-year-old gymnast shared three photos of her relaxing on a day bed near a pool on Instagram with a seemingly pointed caption.
Chiles’ appeal maintains that the CAS hearing violated her “right to be heard” by refusing to allow video evidence that Chiles and USA Gymnastics believe showed Landi appealed within the 1-minute time allotment. Chiles’ appeal also argues that Hamid G. Gharavi, president of the CAS panel, has a conflict of interest due to past legal ties to Romania.
USA Gymnastics wrote in a statement Monday night that it made a “collective, strategic decision to have Jordan lead the initial filing. USAG is closely coordinating with Jordan and her legal team and will make supportive filings with the court in the continued pursuit of justice for Jordan.”
The appeal is the next step in what could be a months- or years-long legal battle over the gymnastics scores.
Chiles was last among the eight women to compete during the floor exercise finals initially given a score of 13.666 that placed her fifth, right behind Barbosu and fellow Romanian Sabrina Maneca-Voinea. Landi called for an inquiry on Chiles’ score.
“At this point, we had nothing to lose, so I was like ‘We’re just going to try,’” Landi said after the awards ceremony. “I honestly didn’t think it was going to happen, but when I heard her scream, I turned around and was like ‘What?’”
Judges awarded the appeal, leapfrogging Chiles past Barbosu and Maneca-Voinea for the last spot on the podium.
Romanian officials appealed to CAS on several fronts while also asking a bronze medal be awarded to Chiles, Barbosu and Maneca-Voinea. The FIG and the IOC ultimately gave the bronze to Barbosu, who beat her teammate on a tiebreaker because she produced a higher execution score during her routine.
Team USA gymnast Jordan Chiles lost her third-place score for floor exercise on Saturday after the Court of Arbitration for Sport found that her score was incorrectly adjusted, moving Chiles to fourth place and reinstating Romania’s Sabrina Maneca-Voinea in third place.
The fight over Jordan Chiles’ bronze medal is not over yet.
Chiles’ attorneys announced Monday that they have filed a formal appeal with the Swiss Federal Tribunal over the results in the women’s floor exercise final at the 2024 Paris Olympics − asking the tribunal to overturn an earlier ruling by the Court of Arbitration for Sport that effectively knocked Chiles off the podium.
Chiles was moved into third place after challenging the judges’ score of one of the elements in her routine, then bumped back down to fifth days later after CAS ruled the challenge was submitted four seconds too late. The International Olympic Committee has since asked Chiles to return her bronze medal and awarded one to Anna Barbosu of Romania, the gymnast who was elevated to third after the CAS ruling.
“Jordan Chiles’ appeals present the international community with an easy legal question − will everyone stand by while an Olympic athlete who has done only the right thing is stripped of her medal because of fundamental unfairness in an ad-hoc arbitration process?” attorney Maurice Suh said in a statement. “The answer to that question should be no. Every part of the Olympics, including the arbitration process, should stand for fair play.”
The statement also said Chiles plans to file an additional petition “seeking additional and alternative relief from the Swiss Federal Supreme Court.”
“Both briefs could result in a retrial of this matter before CAS in order to allow her — for the first time — to prepare a defense and present evidence, including the video footage showing that her coach’s scoring inquiry was submitted on time,” the statement said.
Chiles’ appeal to the tribunal, which is the highest court in Switzerland, marks a significant and relatively rare step. CAS is designed to be the final arbiter of any legal disputes in international sports, so it often has the final word on cases like this one, which was initially filed by the Romanian Gymnastics Federation against the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG).
The Swiss tribunal usually overturns CAS decisions only in cases where there was a blatant procedural violation, lack of jurisdiction or incompatibility with Swiss public policy.
Chiles’ attorneys said in a news release that they are appealing the CAS ruling because it was “procedurally deficient” in two ways. They argue that the American gymnast’s fundamental “right to be heard” was violated when CAS declined to consider new video evidence, obtained after the hearing, that shows her inquiry was submitted on time. And they also say the CAS hearing was unfair because Chiles was not informed that the president of the arbitration panel that heard the case, Hamid Gharavi, has “a serious conflict of interest,” having represented Romania in other proceedings.
“Given these undeniable deficiencies, Chiles asks the Federal Supreme Court to reinstate the score that she rightfully earned at the floor event final,” law firms Gibson Dunn and Homburger AG said in the news release.
The law firms said Chiles’ appeal was accompanied by a letter of support from the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee, which has repeatedly criticized CAS’ handling of the case − specifically with regards to the timeline.
While CAS attempted to notify all of the relevant parties of the dispute on August 6, the USOPC and national governing body USA Gymnastics have said they were not informed about the case until three days later − and less than 24 hours before the hearing was scheduled to begin. The early notices about the case were sent to incorrect email addresses, USA Gymnastics has said.
The governing bodies have also lamented CAS’ decision not to consider the aforementioned video footage, which they say was discovered after the CAS hearing but conclusively proves that Chiles’ inquiry was submitted on time. CAS declined to re-open the case and consider the new video evidence.
“In collaboration with Jordan’s counsel and USA Gymnastics, we are pursuing a coordinated approach, with Jordan’s team handling the initial appeal,” the USOPC said in a statement. “Due to the egregious errors and oversight by CAS in handling the case and overlooking clear evidence of Jordan’s rightful bronze win, we are determined to ensure she receives the recognition she deserves. Our commitment to truth in this matter remains steadfast.”
USA Gymnastics said it supported Chiles’ appeal and will continue to work with her legal team.
“We will make supportive filings with the court in the continued pursuit of justice for Jordan,” USAG said in a statement.
The dispute itself revolves around slim margins – namely one tenth of a point in the floor exercise final, which is the difference between Chiles or Barbosu earning bronze.
Chiles and her coaches believed the 23-year-old was not given full credit for her split leap, known as a tour jete full. Cecile Landi, who was Chiles’ personal coach as well as coach of the U.S. team in Paris, filed what’s known as an inquiry, triggering a review of that element’s scoring. It was successful, and Chiles was credited with an additional 0.10 points, giving her the bronze and knocking Barbosu, 18, off the podium.
The Romanian Gymnastics Federation later took the matter to CAS, arguing that the inquiry had been filed four seconds past the allotted one-minute deadline. CAS agreed and ordered FIG to revise the order of finish in the event, which prompted the IOC to ask Chiles to return her bronze medal.
The CAS ruling in question was filed by the Romanian Gymnastics Federation and Barbosu against FIG and Donatella Sacchi, the president of FIG’s technical committee for women’s gymnastics. While Chiles, the USOPC and USAG were not named in the dispute, they were involved in the arbitral process as “interested parties,” according to CAS.
Chiles spoke about the ordeal publicly for the first time last week, saying during an appearance at the Forbes Power Women’s Summit that her “heart was broken” by the process. The International Gymnastics Federation acknowledged during the CAS hearing that it did not have a mechanism in place to show if inquiries were submitted in time and accepted Chiles’ because it assumed it had been.
Yet Chiles was the one penalized, through no fault of her own. That is why she’s continuing to fight, Chiles said last week.
“At this rate, it’s not really about the medal,” she said. “It’s about my peace and my justice.”
For 14 seconds, Jordan Chiles paused and looked down to collect her thoughts and emotions.
The question — about what Chiles felt she lost when the International Olympic Committee stripped her of her bronze medal in the Olympic women’s gymnastics floor exercise — forced her to stop mid-answer. The audience at the Forbes Power Women’s Summit in New York applauded her as she regrouped and held the microphone back up to her mouth.
Holding back tears, Chiles said she lost more than a bronze medal through the controversy that dominated the end of last month’s Paris Games. The controversy “wasn’t about the medal,” she said, but other realities that made her feel “stripped.”
“The biggest thing that was taken from me was the recognition of who I was, not just my sport, but the person I am,” Chiles said.
“It’s about my skin color,” Chiles added. “It’s about the fact there were things that have led up to this position of being an athlete.”
The on-stage interview Wednesday — which occurred before Chiles appeared at MTV’s Video Music Awards at night — marked the gymnast’s most extensive comments since the IOC said it would reallocate Chiles’ bronze to Romania’s Ana Bărbosu following an appeal by the Romanian Gymnastics Federation.
At the floor final on Aug. 5, Chiles originally finished fifth but rose to third after her coach, Cecile Landi, submitted a successful inquiry to raise her score by one-tenth of a point. Five days later, the Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled that Landi’s inquiry should be invalidated because it came four seconds after the one-minute window for such an appeal. After the ruling, the International Gymnastics Federation dropped Chiles to fifth, and the IOC reallocated the medal. USA Gymnastics has said it is appealing the CAS decision to the Swiss Federal Tribunal.
Chiles said she felt “left in the dark” and unsupported during the controversy. She felt her voice wasn’t heard during the appeal process and compared her emotions to 2018, when she said an emotionally and verbally abusive coach caused her to lose her love for gymnastics.
“No one was listening to the fact that there are things that we have in place,” Chiles said. “There are things that we have that should’ve been seen but weren’t taken for realization.”
“The biggest thing that was taken from me was the recognition of who I was, not just my sport, but the person I am.”
USA Gymnastics has argued that it has video evidence showing Landi made the appeal 47 seconds after Chiles’ score was posted, 13 seconds before the inquiry window closed, and that it did not have enough time to properly make its case to CAS.
Chiles previously referred to the decision as “unjust.”
“(It) comes as a significant blow, not just to me, but to everyone who has championed my journey,” Chiles said in a post on X on Aug. 15. “To add to the heartbreak, the unprompted racially driven attacks on social media are wrong and extremely hurtful.”
Almost a month later, Chiles maintains that she and her coach followed the rules and did “everything that was totally and completely right” in the floor exercise competition.
“I made history and I will always continue to make history,” said Chiles, who won gold in the Olympic women’s team competition.
Chiles, who will return to UCLA for the upcoming college gymnastics season, received a bronze clock at the VMAs as a gift from Flavor Flav, who promised to make her one after her medal was stripped.
Chiles receives a bronze clock from Flavor Flav on Wednesday. (Noam Galai / Getty Images for MTV)
