Jordan Chiles reveals who she blames for 'outrageous' Ana Barbosu Olympic bronze medal scandal READ MORE: Volleyball player speaks out Donald Trump behind-the-scenes By JACK BEZANTS Published: 22:35 GMT, 6 March 2025 | Updated: 22:54 GMT, 6 March 2025 Jordan Chiles believes Ana Barbosu's coach at the Paris Olympics is to blame for the scenes of devastation in last year that sparked a feud that is still ongoing now. As Barbosu celebrated winning bronze in the women's floor final at the Games, Chiles and her United States team - led by her coach Cecile Landi - appealed her score from her routine, believing her split leap was not graded properly. The judges agreed, bumping Chiles up to third and leaving Barbosu in tears and she fell out of the medal positions. Days later, the Romanian Gymnastics Federation appealed, saying Chiles' team didn't contest the score in the allotted one-minute deadline. The Court of Arbitration of Sport upheld the appeal and Barbosu was awarded a bronze medal in Bucharest. In the meantime, the Romanian prime minister threatened to boycott the closing ceremony. Since then, Chiles is still contesting the verdict through the courts with the backing of US Gymnastics. But she reflected on the saga so far in her new book 'I'm That Girl'. She wrote: 'I was crushed and angry. None of this would have happened if Ana's coach, who knew that Cecile had submitted an inquiry right after my floor routine, had waited for the inquiry results to come in before allowing Ana to take the podium, holding her flag. Jordan Chiles lost her bronze medal from the Paris Games in scenes that rocked the Olympics Chiles has now opened up on the incident in her new memoir, titled 'I'm That Girl' Romania's Ana Barbosu reclaimed the medal on an appeal in the days after the event 'That was highly unusual and premature. Our coaches would not have allowed us to do that. Everyone knows you don't celebrate until after everything is final - and an inquiry for my score had been announced.' She continued: 'The fact that the validity of my medal was being questioned after the fact - days after the medal ceremony had taken place - was surprising and outrageous to me. 'Once the medal ceremony has happened, that is the final result unless a drug or rules violation is discovered. That had been the case at every single Olympics in history.' Ironically, Barbosu's coach that day was Patrick Kiens - who has since been hired by the World Champions Centre in Texas, where Chiles and Simone Biles practice. Speaking on Thursday in a podcast appearance on Casuals with Katie Nolan, Chiles insisted she is not giving up the fight to be crowned an Olympic bronze medalist. 'No, it’s not over. It’s still ongoing,' the 23-year-old said. 'My lawyers and my attorneys are the ones who are kind of laying everything out. And they are the ones who are taking control.' Share or comment on this article: Jordan Chiles reveals who she blames for 'outrageous' Ana Barbosu Olympic bronze medal scandal Add comment