Jordan Chiles is not backing down in her fight to regain the bronze medal she believes she earned at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.
Chiles, 23, appeared on Good Morning America Tuesday, March 4, and discussed her mental state seven months removed from the controversial ruling at the Games.
“I can tell you I’m doing way better than I was when it first happened,” Chiles said on GMA.
She continued, “I definitely can only do so much for myself, really focus on my mental, and knowing that I’ve been at UCLA and competing with the team has really helped with that. I’m going to continue to fight and understand that I can only control what I can do with myself. And let everything else just be on the backend of whether my lawyer, my attorney are doing whatever they can to continue to fight for that.”
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Chiles is currently in the midst of her junior season on the UCLA Bruins’ gymnastics team. She returned to the team last year after being stripped of a bronze medal in the women’s individual floor exercise routine in August 2024.
After Chiles’ coach, Cecile Landi, raised an inquiry about Chiles’ score, she judges bumped her up one-tenth of a point. The score adjustment moved Chiles into third place and Romania’s Ana Bărbosu to fourth.
The Romanian Gymnastics Federation then filed an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), challenging the timeliness of the inquiry. The Federation argued it was submitted four seconds after the one-minute appeal window.
Eventually, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) sided with the Romanian Federation and awarded the bronze medal to Bărbosu, 18.
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Chiles’ representatives have since filed two appeals in the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland, most recently in September 2024. USA Gymnastics has also filed a separate appeal.
The appeals asked the court to require CAS to re-open the proceedings and consider their audio and video evidence — which comes from the Netflix camera crews who were in Paris filming Simone Biles’ docuseries, Rising — and allegedly disproves the timeline laid out in the initial ruling.
Whether or not she ever gets her medal back, Chiles insisted she’s at peace with things.
“I’m just going to continue on to move with life,” she said on GMA. “I can’t control what happens at the end of the day. I just know what’s right with me and that I’m always just going to continue to look forward.”
