Jordan Chiles has been fighting to retain the bronze medal she initially won during the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Chiles, on behalf of Team USA, finished in third place during the women’s floor exercise final of the gymnastics meet in August 2024 behind Brazil’s Rebeca Andrade and USA’s Simone Biles in first and second place, respectively. It was the first time that three Black women stood atop the Olympics gymnastics podium.
Within days of the medal ceremony, Chiles’ medal was reallocated to Romanian athlete Ana Bărbosu following scoring inquiries.
“It was a devastating time,” Chiles said on the “Baby It’s Keke Palmer” podcast in November 2025. “It [was] an all-Black podium, which is very rare. It’s obviously something that people just don’t like. They didn’t want to see that. They didn’t want to see three beautiful Black women standing on that podium. They didn’t want to see the fact that we were just dominating, and I really took that to heart.”
Chiles subsequently filed an appeal to allow the Olympics commission to change the ruling that stripped her medal, which was her first individual Olympic trophy.
Keep scrolling for a complete timeline of Chiles’ bronze medal battle:
August 2024
Jordan Chiles was the last gymnast to compete in the women’s floor finals of the individual competition, finishing in fifth place behind Rebeca Andrade, Simone Biles, Ana Bărbosu and Sabrina Maneca-Voinea.
While Team Romania asked for an inquiry to look into the difficulty of Maneca-Voinea’s routine, the appeal was denied. The top three finishers were determined to be Andrade, Biles and Bărbosu before Team USA submitted an inquiry into one of Chiles’ moves.
The Olympic judges accepted the American challenge, which boosted Chiles from fifth place to third.
Days later, the Romanian team filed another inquiry with the Court for Arbitration of Sport (CAS) and questioned the validity of Chiles’ challenge. CAS found that Chiles’ coach, Cecile Canqueteau-Landi, submitted her inquiry four seconds after the deadline, which deemed the new score void.
The CAS reallocated the bronze medal to Bărbosu.
“Following the CAS decision with regard to the Women’s Artistic Gymnastics Floor Exercise Final and the amendment of the ranking by the International Gymnastics Federation, the IOC will reallocate the bronze medal to Ana Bărbosu,” a statement read. “We are in touch with the NOC of Romania to discuss the reallocation ceremony and with USOPC regarding the return of the bronze medal.”
Chiles later said in a social media statement that she was devastated to lose the medal before Team USA filed an appeal with the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
September 2024
When Jordan Chiles’ IOC appeal was unsuccessful, she filed another suit with the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland.
“The only stated basis for the ruling by CAS was its incorrect assertion that there was ‘no dispute’ that Chiles’s coach had been four seconds too late in making an inquiry to correct Chiles’s score — even though the judges at the women’s floor finals had accepted and approved that inquiry,” Chiles’ lawyer Maurice Suh said in a statement. “But Chiles directly and repeatedly disputed that issue at the arbitration hearing. Subsequent to the hearing, Chiles even submitted video footage which unequivocally proves that the inquiry was submitted on time.”
January 2026
The Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland granted part of Jordan Chiles’ appeal, ruling that the Team USA video footage was admissible in court.
“In the highly exceptional circumstances of the case in question, it considers that there is a likelihood for the audio-visual recording of the final on 5 August 2024 to lead to a modification of the contested award in favor of the applicants,” a statement from the court said. “The CAS [Court of Arbitration for Sport] could consider, in the light of this audio-visual sequence, that the verbal inquiry made on behalf of Jordan Chiles had been made before the expiry of the regulatory one-minute time limit.”
