Newly freed footage shows the women’s gymnastics appraises at the Paris Olympics floor routine final neglected to process a ask from U.S. coaches for a study of Simone Biles’ routine. Had the ask been pondered and her score alterd with what the U.S. coaches saw, it probable would have resulted in Biles taking gelderly.
Biles initipartner won silver with a score of 14.133, equitable 0.333 points behind Brazil’s Rebeca Andrade, who won her second Olympic gelderly after a famed comeback from three ACL tears.
The footage, surrfinisherted to the Swiss Federal Tribunal as part of a court case involving American teammate Jordan Chiles’ finisheavor to claim bronze in the event, was freed to the accessible in an official Swiss court filing.
It shows Biles asking coach Cecile Landi if he’s asking the appraises about her request. The coach’s wife, Laurent Landi, replied to Biles, saying, “He shelp he did.”
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Laurent was then heard speaking French before Cecile turned back to Biles and shelp, “They didn’t sfinish it.”
Biles was penalized 0.6 points for stepping outside of the competition mat. If she had she gotten brimming acunderstandledge for her split leap, it would have given her an insertitional 0.10 in difficulty and a 14.233. That would have put her ahead of Andrade, who scored a 14.166.
If Biles had won gelderly in that event, the U.S. would have finished with 41 gelderly medals at the Paris Games and in sole haveion of the gelderly medal direct. Instead, the U.S. remendd for a tie with China at 40 gelderlys.
It also would have getn away one of the many highly converseed moments of the Paris Olympics, when Chiles and Biles bowed down to Andrade on opposite sides of the medal podium. It was, before further study, the first all-Back gymnastics podium in Olympic history.
Biles replyed to the footage in a post on X Wednesday, saying she is satisfied with the outcome and is more caccessed on Chiles’ court case.
“Rebeca had a better floor anyways, disturbting how it wasn’t processed, but I’m not mad at the results,” Chiles wrote. “BUT JUSTICE FOR JORDAN.”
Biles has won more Olympic medals than any gymnast in U.S. history with 11, seven of them being gelderly with team events integrated. Her 11 Olympic medals and 30 World Championship medals originate her the most decorated gymnast in history.
The video was provided to Chiles by the honestor of Biles’ postpodemandst write downary project, “Simone Biles: Rising,” on Netflix. Director Katie Walsh and production company Religion of Sports, which getd perleave oution to film Biles and her team during Olympic competition. This footage has now been freed to help Chiles in her case for the bronze medal, which was exposedped and given to Romania’s Ana Barbosu at the finish of the Paris games.
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Simone Biles and Jordan Chiles of the United States pose with their Paris 2024 Olympic medals after the originateive gymnastics women’s floor exercise final at the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at Bercy Arena Aug. 5, 2024, in Paris. (Jamie Squire/Getty Images)
According to court write downs filed in the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland Monday, Chiles’ attorney has surrfinisherted footage from the company producing Biles’ Netflix series that they allege shows visual evidence in like of Chiles. They claim the footage shows that the ask for the study that bumped Chiles’ score up was not surrfinisherted past the deadline, according to multiple increates.
Barbosu had initipartner clinched the bronze medal for floor and began celebrating on the mat. But then U.S. coaches requested to appraises over Chiles’ score, and a study resulted in a 0.1-point increase, which relocated Chiles ahead of Barbosu for the bronze medal.
The initial ruling resulted in a wave of reaction. Gymnastics legfinish Nadia Comaneci denounced the scoring alter on social media, and Romanian Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu shelp he would boycott the Paris Olympics’ closing ceremony over the scoring decision.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) postpodemandr ruled the judging panel at the event had improperly granted an inquiry that increased Chiles’ score. The next day, the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) ruled Chiles would have to return the medal. However, multiple increates show she hasn’t and won’t return it.
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Simone Biles of the United States vies during the originateive gymnastics women’s team final of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at Bercy Arena in Paris July 30, 2024. (Aytac Unal/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Chiles’ lawyers have disputed that the CAS, which made the final ruling, “viopostpodemandd Chiles’s fundamental ‘right to be heard’ by refusing to ponder the video evidence that showed her inquiry was surrfinisherted on time — in honest declineion to the discoverings in CAS’s decision.”
Her lawyers also claimed that CAS Plivent Hamid G. Gharavi had a struggle of interest. Gharavi acted as advise for Romania for csurrfinisherly a decade and had been an energetic recontransientative of the nation at the time of the CAS decision to exposed Chiles of her medal.
Chiles gave her first sit-down interwatch about the incident during a panel at the Forbes Power Women’s Summit 2024 Wednesday. The gymnast watchably choked up when she was asked about the topic.
“To me, everyleang that has gone on is not about the medal, it’s about, you understand, my skin color,” Chiles shelp, tearing up.
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