Jordan Chiles and her legal team have submitted an appeal to the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland concerning her performance in the women’s floor exercise at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. 

As reported by BET, Chiles initially earned the bronze medal on Aug. 5 after scoring 13.766. This was due to a successful appeal by her coach, Cecile Landi, which added 0.1 to her difficulty score and moved her from fifth to third place, surpassing Romania’s Sabrina Voinea and Ana Barbosu. However, following a request from Romanian officials, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) invalidated Landi's appeal, citing that it was filed four seconds past the 60-second limit for scoring inquiries. This decision restored Chiles’ score to 13.666 and demoted her to fifth place, ultimately winning the bronze medal to Barbosu.

USA Gymnastics (USAG) originally submitted a letter and video evidence to CAS contesting its ruling and requested that the CAS decision be revised and Chiles’ bronze-medal score reinstated. USAG later announced that the CAS arbitration panel had notified them that it would not reconsider its decision.

On Monday (Sept. 16), Chiles’ lawyers released a statement, saying that they were aiming "to overturn a decision by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) that stripped her of her bronze medal."

"Chiles asks the Supreme Court to find that the CAS decision was procedurally deficient for two reasons," the statement read. “First, CAS violated Chiles’s fundamental “right to be heard” by refusing to consider the video evidence that showed her inquiry was submitted on time—in direct contradiction to the findings in CAS’s decision.

It continued, "Second, the entire CAS proceeding was unfair because Chiles was not properly informed that Hamid G. Gharavi, the President of the CAS panel that revoked Chiles’s bronze medal and awarded it instead to a Romanian gymnast, had a serious conflict of interest: Mr. Gharavi has acted as counsel for Romania for almost a decade and was actively representing Romania at the time of the CAS arbitration. Today’s appeal filing was supported by the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC), which filed a letter in support of Chiles’s appeal."