Simone Biles says ‘not a big deal’ after video shows scoring inquiry snafu might have cost her gold

Simone Biles isn’t worried about possibly missing out on another gold medal over another gymnastics scoring poll snafu in the floor exercise at the Paris Olympics.

Video from a camera crew following Biles at the Paris Games for the Netflix documentary series “Simone Biles: Rising” was given to Jordan Chiles, whose lawyers presented it Monday to the Swiss Federal Court as part of Chiles’ appeal to keep her bronze medal. The video also showed Biles asking Team USA coach Cecile Landi if an inquiry had been filed about her floor routine score.

Biles asked Landi, “Is he asking?” referring to Landi’s husband and fellow coach, Laurent, filing an inquiry. Landi replied, “He said he did.” Laurent then spoke to Landi in French before Landi turned to Biles and said, “They didn’t send it.”

Landi then asked her husband, “What about Jordan? Do you want to try?”

Biles finished 0.033 points behind Brazil’s Rebeca Andrade to win a silver medal in the women’s individual floor final. Had the survey been successful, Biles would have earned enough points to be awarded the gold.

“(H) First doesn’t matter to me,” Biles tweeted in response to the video. “Rebecca had a better floor anyway. upset how it wasn’t handled but I’m not mad at the results (sic).”

Biles added: “But justice for Jordan. you hear me!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

Chiles, the last of the nine gymnasts to perform her floor routine, received a preliminary score of 13.666, placing her fifth behind Andrade, Biles and Ana Bărbosu and Sabrina Maneca-Voinea of ​​Romania, who each scored 13.700. (Bărbosu was ahead of Maneca-Voinea for having a higher execution score, meaning the judges thought she hit a cleaner routine.)

Following the routine of Chiles, Landi submitted a survey, which the judges accepted and thus raised the score of Chiles to 13.766, pushing her into the bronze position. The video released Monday showed Landi saying, “Poll for Jordan,” twice before the one-minute window to appeal scores closed.

The Romanian Gymnastics Federation submitted an appeal to CAS challenging the timeliness of Chiles’ inquiry, saying it was presented four seconds after the one-minute window.

CAS ruled that Chiles’ inquiry was late lifted and her initial score should be reinstated, effectively kicking her off the podium. The International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) changed the results to reflect this before giving the International Olympic Committee (IOC) the final say on who would be awarded the bronze medal.

The IOC stripped Chiles of her bronze and reassigned it to Bărbosu, who received her medal at a ceremony in Bucharest on August 16. Chiles’ lawyers filed a formal appeal on Monday to overturn the CAS ruling.

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