USA Gymnastics may have just unearthed a smoking gun.
There’s a positive new development in USA Gymnastics’ relentless pursuit to help Jordan Chiles reclaim her bronze medal from the 2024 Paris Games.of her bronze medal in the women’s gymnastics floor final after the Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled that Cecile Landi, Chiles’s coach, submitted her appeal to raise Chiles’s score four seconds over the allotted 60-second time limit. Chiles originally scored 13.666 on her floor routine on Aug.
Over a month later, USA Gymnastics may have unearthed new evidence proving that Landi did, in fact, submit her appeal on time., reveals that Landi tells the judges, “Inquiry for Jordan!” exactly 49 seconds after Chiles received her score in the floor routine—well before the 60-second time limit—. Landi could be heard saying “inquiry for Jordan” several more times prior to the deadline.
The short clip may be the most significant piece of evidence to date in USA Gymnastics’ ongoing efforts to help Chiles get her bronze medal back, though it’s not clear whether the evidence will be accepted.it had new video evidence to prove Landi submitted her appeal before the time limit. However, the CAS rejected the video and said it couldn’t accept new evidence after its decision had been made.
On Monday, Chiles also filed a formal appeal with the Swiss Federal Tribunal to overturn the CAS’s ruling. The appeal, which is currently ongoing, includedChiles previously called the CAS’s ruling “unjust” and “devastating”Kristen Wong is a staff writer on the Breaking and Trending News team at Sports Illustrated. She has been a sports journalist since 2020.
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