Jordan Chiles has been ordered to return her Olympic bronze medal following a ruling by the International Olympic Committee, with the American the victim of a verdict from the Court of Arbitration for Sport voiding a scoring inquiry.
Chiles is being made to relinquish her hardware as CAS voided an on-floor appeal by the gymnast’s coach that sent her into third place, claiming the appeal came four seconds after the one-minute scoring time limit.
Her sister, Jazmin Chiles, has lashed out at the decision via social media, also exposing some of the racist remarks she has been treated to.
“Please keep Jordan (and my family) in your prayers,” she wrote on her Instagram Story. “Racism is real, it exists, it is alive and well. They have officially, five 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. Not because she wasn’t good enough. But because the judges failed to give her difficulty [score] and forced an inquiry to be made.”