Team USA's women won 10 medals at the 2024 Paris Olympics but returned with nine after Jordan Chiles, 23, was stripped of bronze from the women's floor final on August 5.
Chiles competed last and scored 13.666, which left her fifth, behind Romania's Ana Barbosu and Sabrina Maneca-Voinea. Her coach, Cecile Landi, filed an inquiry arguing that the score did not give due credit for Chiles's tour jeté full. After review, the score rose by 0.1 and Chiles moved from fifth to third.
The Romanian Gymnastics Federation later appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport. CAS found that Landi had submitted the inquiry four seconds after the one-minute window. The International Olympic Committee then ordered Chiles to return the medal and named Barbosu the bronze medalist.
This week Chiles appealed to the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland, where CAS is based. She and her team say video shows Landi made the inquiry within the allowed time, and that the footage appears in Simone Biles Rising.
Biles released the multi-part Netflix documentary, produced by Religion of Sports and directed by Katie Walsh, in late July. The first two episodes follow her from the Tokyo 2020 Olympics into her comeback before Paris, with fuller Games coverage promised later. Her counsel say the submitted video shows Landi's inquiry 49 seconds after the result, and that Landi and Chiles embraced 15 seconds after the score appeared.
According to a press release obtained by CBS Sports, Chiles's attorney, Maurice M Suh, said: "Jordan Chiles' appeals present the international community with an easy legal question—will everyone stand by while an Olympic athlete who has done only the right thing is stripped of her medal because of fundamental unfairness in an ad-hoc arbitration process?"
"The answer to that question should be no," he continued. "Every part of the Olympics, including the arbitration process, should stand for fair play."
Her counsel argue that CAS violated her fundamental right to be heard by refusing to review footage they say shows the inquiry was made on time. The Independent has asked CAS for comment.