Chiles is the first gymnast to be stripped of an Olympic medal since 2000, when equipment errors and medal-stripping disputes tarnished the results.
is the sport’s highest-profile controversy since the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, the site of the biggest scandal in Olympic gymnastics history., or CAS, which found that the scoring appeal from Chiles’ coach was filed four seconds too late. Romania’s Ana Bărbosu, 18, was retroactively deemed the floor exercise bronze medalist.Chiles is the only gymnast in history to be stripped of an Olympic medal for reasons other than age falsification or failed drug tests.
The table was set nearly 2 inches lower than required. Seventeen gymnasts, including gold-medal favorite Svetlana Khorkina, of Russia, crashed their vaults before officials in the arena pulled out tape measures and discovered the error. Team USA gymnast Jordan Chiles lost her third-place score for floor exercise on Saturday after the Court of Arbitration for Sport found that her score was incorrectly adjusted, moving Chiles to fourth place and reinstating Romania’s Sabrina Maneca-Voinea in third place.
Her teammate Simona Amânar, who initially earned silver, was then awarded the all-around title. Răducan retained the gold medal she won in the team event earlier in the Games, as well as an individual vault medal she won three days later.“This decision was very tough for Andreea and was not easily taken by the IOC at the time,” Bach said in a news release. “It shows how strict our anti-doping rules are by having to apply the principle of strict liability of the athlete.
The only other instance, until Chiles, of an Olympic gymnastics medal being retroactively stripped, also occurred at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, but it came to light only a decade later. Dong's falsified age was revealed when she tried to register for the 2008 Beijing Games with a different birth year.
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