Jordan Chiles on campaign to have Olympic bronze medal returned: 'I know we were right'
Jordan Chiles is doubling down on her efforts to reclaim her Olympic gymnastics medal that was stripped after a controversial ruling, saying, "That bronze medal was given to me in the right way."
Jordan Chiles is doubling down on her efforts to reclaim her Olympic gymnastics medal that was stripped after a controversial ruling, saying, "That bronze medal was given to me in the right way."
Chiles, 23, told NBC’s “TODAY” show Monday that it had "honestly been a very difficult time" since the Olympics wrapped up, as she and her lawyers pursued legal avenues to have her medal officially returned.
While Chiles said she still physically has the medal, the official results show that she finished fifth.
“It's hard to tell yourself everything is going to be fine when we literally didn’t do anything wrong. Everything was in the time that it needed to be," Chiles said in her first live TV interview about the ordeal. “For them to come back and say it was four seconds too late when we have proof … I can only control what my truth is, and I know that we were right.”
Chiles originally finished fifth in the floor exercise event at the Paris Olympics in August. Her coach, Cecile Landi, saw that judges had erred in evaluating the degree of difficulty for an element of her routine and her score was corrected, landing her in third place.
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