The head of the Court of Arbitration for Sport panel that ruled that gymnast Jordan Chiles had to give up her Olympic bronze medal in favor of a Romanian athlete has represented Romania for almost a decade in arbitration cases, documents show (via @tariqpanja) nytimes.com/2024/08/13/world…

There is IOC precedent for not removing a medal but instead awarding duplicate medals after an investigation concluded wrongdoing on the judges’ part. 2002 Olympics figure skating with Canada and Russia. The two couples ultimately shared the podium.

Making the athletes pay for the multiple errors FIG OFFICIALS committed is cowardly and fundamentally wrong. It took over an hour yesterday for @gymnastics to CORRECT THE CORRECTION posted on Ana Barbosu’s score. Awarding two bronze medals hurts no one. Stand by your athletes.

What Jordan Chiles and Ana Barbosu have both had to endure completely tarnishes both of their Olympic experiences. And for what? Neither cheated. Both exhibited the highest levels of sportsmanship. They competed with dignity and honor and the people in charge failed to follow through on their end, and with ZERO accountability after the fact. We have yet to see a statement of accountability of any kind from the FIG (@gymnastics) or @iocmedia. Instead that burden has been passed on to the athletes — the ones who actually did their jobs — resulting in irreparable trauma.