At the Paris Olympics 2024, a late inquiry kept US gymnast Jordan Chiles off the podium. But who is to blame? The judges, the technology, or the way we measure time itself?
At the Olympics, seconds matter. Anyone who’s watched the Games — or, really, any athletic competition — knows the difference even a fraction of a second can make. It’s the difference between a basketball going up just before the buzzer sounds instead of the moment after and the difference between a championship and an elimination. This persnickety counting is only supposed to matter on the field of play itself — the court, the pitch, and, in the case of gymnastics, the mat.
On September 16th, Chiles’ legal team filed an appeal with the Swiss Federal Tribunal, the only entity that can compel CAS to reopen the case, citing far more procedural mismanagement than anything detailed in the original decision: misdirected emails leading to extremely delayed notifications for US sport officials, which impacted their ability to prepare for the tribunal; missing file attachments; and a major source of conflict of interest on the three-person adjudication panel.
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