The US gymnast who missed out on, won, then was stripped of a bronze medal at the Paris Olympics has revealed she still has the prestigious piece of jewellery. Jordan Chiles is still in the midst of challenging for the third-placed finish in the women's floor routine at last year's Games, with the saga dragging on for months. Chiles was initially placed fifth by judges in the final, but a US team enquiry saw her difficulty score bumped up by 0.1, which put her in third place. After Chiles, teammate and silver medallist Simone Biles, and Brazilian champion Rebeca Andrade celebrated during the medal ceremony, it was revealed that the Romanian team had appealed against the decision. The appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) argued the American in-competition enquiry came just after the one-minute deadline expired. CAS agreed and Romania's Ana Bărbosu was reinstated in the bronze spot and awarded her medal in a ceremony in Bucharest a few days after the Olympics ended. But Chiles said she still considered herself a bronze medallist even if the official records disagreed as her appeal continued in the Swiss Federal Supreme Court. "Whatever happens with the bronze, it's still a bronze in my head, it's still a bronze in my heart," Chiles said on The Trophy Room With Candace Parker. "And I can't really continue on my life with having something so small but so big in the world carried in my heart for the rest of my life." The 23-year-old won gold for the US in the women's team final in Paris and claimed silver in the same event in 2021 in Tokyo, where she was a late call-up for Biles. Chiles told Parker she was 50/50 on competing at the Los Angeles Olympics in 2028, but she had rediscovered her love for competing after having a crisis of confidence after the Games. "Yes, I'm going to continue to fight, but I can only fight for so long, I can only fight for so much," she said. "I know what my right is and I know what I've done to create this amazing ability to be this two-time Olympian." Chiles is currently competing on the American collegiate scene with UCLA, just a few hours south of Stanford, where Bărbosu was accepted in January.