Olympic Gymnast Jordan Chiles Announces Break From Social Media After Being Stripped Of Bronze Medal Due To Judging Errors

Jordan Chiles

Olympic Gymnast Jordan Chiles Announces Break From Social Media After Being Stripped Of Bronze Medal Due To Judging Errors

Star gymnast Jordan Chiles is leaving the internet amid a devastating turn of events at the Olympics.

The 23-year-old insisted that she needs to protect her mental health from social media users as she deals with losing her bronze medal due to judging errors.

Jordan Chiles

Jordan Chiles shared a few posts to Instagram yesterday (Saturday, August 10th), after it was confirmed that her first ever individual Olympic medal will be rescinded. The athlete shared a few broken heart emoji’s in post and wrote in another:

“I am taking this time and removing myself from social media for my mental health thank you”

Her sister Jazmin Chiles also addressed the situation, claiming that the Olympian has been the target of racist internet onslaught amid the circumstance and also slammed the decision to have Jordan Chiles return her medal in its entirety. She wrote in one post:

“Please keep Jordan (and my family) in your prayers. Racism is real, it exists, it is alive and well.”

She continued:

“They have officially, 5 days later, stripped her of one of her medals. Not because she didn’t win, not because she was drugged, not because she stepped out of bounds…But because judges failed to give her difficulty and forced an inquiry to be made,”

As Jazmin Chiles touched on, the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) announced yesterday that they would support the Court of Arbitration for Sport’s (CAS) decision to void an on-floor inquiry made by Jordan Chiles‘ coach during the floor exercise competition earlier this week. Chiles was initially awarded a score of 13.666, which put her in fifth place behind Romanian gymnasts Ana Barbosu and Sabrina Maneca-Voinea. However, after Chiles‘ coaches submitted an appeal, arguing that the difficulty of her floor exercise was not scored properly, judges boosted her total by 0.1, catapulting her to medal earning third place.

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Shortly after, the Romanian Olympic Committee filed an appeal that argued Chiles‘ coaches filed the inquiry 4 seconds beyond the 1 minute mark allowed. The CAS agreed with the appeal, and ruled that Chiles‘ previous score would stand putting her back to fifth. Additionally, the committee confirmed earlier today (Sunday, August 11th) that they will begin planning a reallocation process to award Ana Barbosu the bronze medal and have Chiles return the trophy.

The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee said in a statement that they will appeal the ruling to the highest courts in international sports, taking the matter either to Switzerland’s Swiss Tribunal or the European Court of Human Rights. Defending Chiles‘ win, they wrote:

“We firmly believe that Jordan rightfully earned the bronze medal, and there were critical errors in both the initial scoring by the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) and the subsequent CAS appeal process that need to be addressed,”

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They added:

“The initial error occurred in the scoring by FIG, and the second error was during the CAS appeal process, where the USOPC was not given adequate time or notice to effectively challenge the decision.”

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