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USA Gymnastics has stated that an arbitration panel is not going to rethink a choice asking gymnast Jordan Chiles to return the bronze medal she was awarded within the creative gymnastics ground train at Paris 2024.
In line with the governing physique, it was notified earlier on Monday by the Court docket of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) that the foundations don’t permit for an arbitral award to be reconsidered even when conclusive new proof is introduced.
“We’re deeply dissatisfied by the notification and can proceed to pursue each potential avenue and enchantment course of, together with to the Swiss Federal Tribunal, to make sure the simply scoring, placement, and medal award for Jordan,” USA Gymnastics stated in a press release.
USA Gymnastics submitted extra proof to Cas on Sunday after the Lausanne-based worldwide physique dominated in favour of an enchantment by Romania’s Ana Barbosu, who will transfer as much as third place within the occasion.
Barbosu and her staff had appealed to Cas that an inquiry by Chiles‘ coach filed over the leads to the occasion was made after the one-minute deadline and that the American shouldn’t be awarded the rating of 13.766 that lifted her to 3rd place.
However USA Gymnastics then offered Cas with time-stamped video that it stated reveals the coach first acknowledged a request to file an inquiry 47 seconds after the rating was posted, adopted by a second assertion 55 seconds after the rating was posted.
Chiles had initially been awarded a rating of 13.666, whereas Barbosu scored 13.700.
The choice by CAS doesn’t have an effect on both winner Rebeca Andrade of Brazil or silver medallist Simone Biles of the US, who scored 14.166 and 14.133 respectively.
Reuters
