Jordan Chiles is not backing down.
On Monday, Sept. 16, attorneys for the Olympic gold medalist, 23, filed an appeal on Chiles’ behalf with the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland to overturn a decision by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) that stripped the athlete of her bronze medal in the women’s gymnastics floor event following the 2024 Paris Olympics, according to a press release. The bronze medal was awarded to Romanian gymnast Ana Bărbosu.
The “CAS violated Chiles’s fundamental ‘right to be heard’ by refusing to consider the video evidence that showed her inquiry was submitted on time — in direct contradiction to the findings in CAS’s decision,” her lawyers alleged in the press release.
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Chiles’ lawyers claim that Chiles was never properly informed that CAS president Hamid G. Gharavi had “a serious conflict of interest,” the press release states. Gharavi had acted as counsel for Romania for almost …