PARIS (Reuters) – American gymnast Jordan Chiles is set to lose her bronze medal in the women’s artistic gymnastics floor exercise competition after the Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled in favour of an appeal by Romania’s Ana Barbosu, who will move up to third place, it said on Saturday.
Barbosu and her team had appealed to CAS that an inquiry filed over the results in that event was done so past the one-minute deadline and that Chiles should not be awarded the score of 13.766 that lifted her to third place behind winner Rebeca Andrade of Brazil and silver medallist Simone Biles of the United States.
Chiles had initially been awarded a score of 13.666, while Barbosu scored 13.700.
“The inquiry submitted on behalf of Ms Jordan Chiles in the final of the women’s floor exercise was raised after the conclusion of the one-minute deadline,” CAS said.
“The initial score of 13.666 given to Ms Jordan Chiles in the final of the women’s floor exercise shall be reinstated.”
CAS also ordered the international gymnastics federation FIG to determine the ranking of the final and “assign the medal(s) in accordance with the above decision.”
The decision does not affect either Andrade or Biles, who scored 14.166 and 14.133 respectively.
(Reporting by Karolos Grohmann; and Hugh Lawson)
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