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Simone Biles Faces Potential Olympic Gold Loss Due to Scoring Controversy

Errors in Scoring Inquiry May Have Denied Simone Biles Another Olympic Gold


The floor exercise final at the Paris Olympics faced more complications than initially realized.

 

Recent video presented on Monday as part of Jordan Chiles’ appeal to the Swiss Federal Tribunal suggests that Simone Biles’s floor routine scoring inquiry was not recorded, which likely cost the Olympic champion her chance at winning another gold. Biles finished with a silver medal, just 0.033 points shy of Rebeca Andrade of Brazil.

“Honestly, it’s not a huge deal for me; Rebeca had a better floor routine anyway,” Biles remarked on Tuesday, including a hand-heart emoji, in response to a Twitter comment about the scoring issues involving both Biles and Jordan Chiles.

“It’s frustrating that it wasn’t processed, but I’m not upset with the results.”

Biles scored 14.133 in the floor final, which featured a 6.9 in difficulty. However, had she received full credit for her split leap, her score could have increased by 0.10, resulting in a 14.233. This would have put her ahead of Andrade’s score of 14.166.

 

In the video related to Chiles’ appeal, Biles can be seen asking her coach Cecile Landi, “Is he asking?” to which Landi responds, “He said he did.” After some discussion in French, Cecile tells Biles, “They didn’t send it,” gesturing in exasperation.

 

Landi then inquires about Jordan, saying, “What about Jordan? You want to try?”

 

This footage was obtained by Chiles from director Katie Walsh and the production company Religion of Sports, who were granted special access to film at Bercy Arena for Biles’ latest documentary, “Simone Biles: Rising.” The initial two episodes of this docuseries premiered on Netflix ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympics, with two more episodes scheduled for release later this year.

Landi did lodge an inquiry concerning Chiles, asserting that Chiles did not receive appropriate credit for her split leap. The review panel agreed, raising Chiles’ score by 0.10 points and awarding her the bronze medal, placing her ahead of Romania’s Ana Barbosu.

 

Romania later appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, arguing that Chiles’ scoring inquiry was submitted too late. CAS concurred, indicating that the inquiry was recorded four seconds past the cutoff time and ordered the revision of the floor final results, ultimately stripping Chiles of her bronze medal on the final day of the Paris Olympics.

 

However, the regulations stipulate that Chiles had 60 seconds to make a verbal inquiry, not necessarily that the inquiry needed to be logged within that time frame. During the recent CAS review, it was acknowledged by FIG that there were no systems in effect to capture the timing of when verbal inquiries were made.

 

Yet, in the video that has timestamps, Landi notably states “Inquiry for Jordan” twice before the 60-second limit is reached.

It seemed that Biles was far more concerned about Chiles being wrongly denied a bronze medal than about her own potential loss of a gold medal.

“BUT JUSTICE FOR JORDAN,” the seven-time Olympic champion declared in her Tuesday Twitter post, emphasizing with four emojis representing a person speaking. “You hear me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”