The head of the panel that ruled Should lose her Olympic medal to a Romanian athlete has represented Romania’s government in legal disputes for years, it has emerged.
Romania appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) where Hamid G. Gharavi was the chair of the panel, despite his links to the Romanian government.
Chiles reacted by posting four broken-hearted emojis on Instagram and said she was taking a break from social media was behind the decision.
It is not known if she will receive the exact same medal as Chiles and if the USA star has been forced to return hers.
Chiles won the bronze in women’s floor exercise in Paris when her coach submitted an inquiry to challenge the judges’ initial score and her score was corrected from 13.666 to 13.766.
Chiles moved into third place, passing Romanians Barbosu and Sabrina Maneca-Voinea. It represented Chiles’ only individual medal of her Olympic career. She won a gold medal as part of the team event in Paris, and a silver medal in the same event in Tokyo.
Romania took its case to CAS, saying that the United States’ inquiry was not made within the one-minute window stated in the rules. Romania argued that the Americans missed that time limit by four seconds.
After the ruling on Saturday went against Chiles, the U.S. later countered it had video evidence that coach Cecile Landi made the appeal 47 seconds after Chiles’ initial score was posted, well within the time limi
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