Jordan Chiles is refusing to let her Olympic bronze medal angst get her down heading into 2025 after flaunting her team gold on social media.
The Team USA gymnast was controversially stripped of her individual bronze in the floor exercise at this summer's Paris Games after a dispute involving Romania's Ana Barbosu.
After initially placing fifth, an appeal from the United States raised Chiles' marks by a tenth to place her in third place behind Brazilian Rebeca Andrade and her teammate Simone Biles.
However, days after the Olympics, that changed when the Romanian athletic commission filed its own appeal over the scores that knocked Barbosu off the medal table.
The appeal found that the United States' original challenge to the scores was filed four seconds late and invalid, meaning Chiles was stripped of his coveted bronze medal.
In an Instagram post on New Year's Eve, the 23-year-old re-shared a photo of Team USA posing next to the gold medal she won in the team final alongside the likes of Biles and Suni Read.
Jordan Chiles refuses to let Olympic bronze medal heartbreak get her down
Team USA gymnast flaunted her team gold in Instagram post on New Year's Eve
In September, Chiles filed an appeal with a Swiss court as he tries to regain the bronze he won in Paris.
Team USA initially attempted to appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport after its medal was stripped, saying it had uncovered video evidence that its appeal that day was made 47 seconds after the initial score was posted. Chiles. The CAS refused to reopen the case.
The CAS is based in Lausanne, Switzerland, and appeals of any case go directly to the country's highest court.
Chiles' appeal claimed that her “right to be heard” was violated when the CAS refused to consider new evidence. The appeal also alleges that the chair of the CAS panel had a conflict of interest due to prior legal ties in Romania.
The appeal was supported by both USA Gymnastics and the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee. In a statement, USA Gymnastics said it made a “collective and strategic decision to have Jordan lead the opening performance.” USAG is coordinating closely with Jordan and his legal team and will make supportive submissions to the court in the continued pursuit of justice for Jordan.
The Oregon-born athlete said in a social media post at the time that her situation “seems unfair,” adding that she had been the target of “spontaneous racially motivated attacks on social media.”