Romanian gymnast Ana Barbosu poses with the bronze medal for her ladies’s inventive gymnastics particular person ground efficiency on the Paris 2024 Olympics, after receiving it throughout a ceremony on the Romanian Olympic and Sports activities Committee, in Bucharest, Romania, Friday, Aug. 16, 2024. American gymnast Jordan Chiles referred to as an arbitration panel’s determination that dropped her out of the bronze medal place within the ground train on the Paris Olympics “unjust” and a “vital blow” in a message posted on social media Thursday. (AP Picture/Vadim Ghirda)
Romanian gymnast Ana Barbosu acquired Olympic bronze at a ceremony in Bucharest on Friday after the Worldwide Gymnastics Federation awarded it to her as an alternative of US gymnast Jordan Chiles following a bitter row.
A rating revision over the diploma of issue lifted Chiles to 3rd within the ground train on the Paris Olympics on August 5, inflicting heartbreak for Barbosu who thought she had gained bronze.
Romania appealed the choice, and the Court docket of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) dominated the US enchantment for the rating revision got here too late.
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Chiles, 23, mentioned Thursday that being stripped of a bronze medal on the Paris Olympics has been devastating and heartbreaking and delivered her an unjust blow.
On Friday, Barbosu, 18, mentioned she felt “very pleased and grateful”, although saddened that “there have been such issues at a excessive stage”.
“We as athletes have achieved completely nothing incorrect,” she mentioned, including she hoped for Chiles and fellow Romanian gymnast Sabrina Voinea, who additionally contested her personal rating within the ground ultimate, to get “pleased conclusions”.
After the medal — a unique one than was given to Chiles — was positioned round her neck in a brief ceremony held by the Romanian Olympic and Sports activities Committee, Barbosu instructed reporters: “I didn’t notice it was that heavy.”
She added she hopes to convey extra medals to the jap European nation, which used to have a strong gymnastics program however had not taken half within the Olympics for the previous 12 years.
“I inform the ladies who need to do gymnastics to have religion that if they need one thing, it’s going to come true in the event that they keep it up and put within the arduous work,” Barbosu mentioned.
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Despite the new afternoon, she patiently posed with the medal for photographers, kissed it after which took pictures with some kids.
USA Gymnastics has vowed to proceed to battle for Chiles’ medal.
One of many defining photographs of the Paris Video games exhibits Chiles and silver winner US celebrity Simone Biles and Chiles bowing to gold winner Brazil’s Rebeca Andrade on the rostrum.
In her remarks Thursday, Chiles additionally mentioned a swirl of social media assaults have been extraordinarily hurtful as she tries to recuperate from the controversy over the ground train ultimate.
Chiles, Barbosu and Romania’s Voinea have all been attacked on-line.
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Romania’s gymnastics federation has requested for the assaults to cease, as did Barbosu’s mom, Pompilia Barbosu, on Friday, “begging as a mom to cease all of the defamations.”
Observe Inquirer Sports activities’ particular protection of the Paris Olympics 2024.
