A scoring inquiry for Simone Biles’ floor routine in the final was never registered, according to video that was submitted on Monday as part of Jordan Chiles’ appeal to the Swiss Federal Tribunal. This presumably means that the Olympic champion will not win another gold medal. Finishing just 0.033 points behind Brazilian Rebeca Andrade, Biles took home the silver medal.
After someone on X, formerly Twitter, pointed out problems with the queries for both Biles and Jordan Chiles, Biles responded on Tuesday, “Honestly not a big thing for me, Rebeca had a better floor anyways,” adding a hand-heart emoji.
“It’s disappointing that it wasn’t processed, but I don’t mind the outcome.”
In the floor final, Biles scored 14.133, with a 6.9 difficulty rating. However, if her split leap had been given full credit, she would have received a 14.233 and an extra 0.10 in difficulty. With it, she would have surpassed Andrade, who received a score of 14.166.
However, Biles asks coach Cecile Landi, “Is he asking?” in the video that was included with Chiles’ appeal. Landi retorts, “He claimed to have.” Cecile Landi turns to Biles and says, “They didn’t send it,” raising her arms in a defenseless gesture after her husband and co-coach Laurent Landi speaks a few words in French.
After then, Landi queries her spouse, “What about Jordan? Would you like to give it a shot?
Director Katie Walsh and production company Religion of Sports, who were granted special permission to film in Bercy Arena for Biles’s most recent documentary project, “Simone Biles: Rising,” gave Chiles with the video. The docuseries’ first two episodes were made available on Netflix before the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, and two more will air later this year.
Landi did send Chiles a message, claiming that Chiles was not given proper credit for her split leap. After a review panel made this decision, Chiles’ score was raised by 0.10 points, earning her the bronze medal ahead of Ana Barbosu of Romania.
Romania claimed that Chiles’ scoring investigation was not done in a timely manner in their appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport. CAS concurred and ordered the floor final results to be adjusted, citing data from Omega that demonstrated the query was registered four seconds too late. Chiles’ bronze medal was consequently taken away from her on the last day of the Paris Olympics.
However, the regulations provide that Chiles had sixty seconds to voice a question; they do not specify that the question must be submitted in that time frame. The FIG admitted that there were no systems in place to keep track of verbal inquiries received during the CAS hearing last month.
However, it is evident from the time-stamped footage that Landi states “Inquiry for Jordan” twice before the allotted 60 seconds have passed.
Biles seemed to be more bothered by Chiles’ unfair denial of the bronze medal than by her lack of another gold one.
The seven-time Olympic winner added four speaking emojis to her post on X on Tuesday, saying, “BUT JUSTICE FOR JORDAN.” “You hear me? I’m so excited!”
