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Jordan Chiles says Olympic gymnastics controversy took away ‘the recognition of who I was’

For 14 seconds, Jordan Chiles paused and looked down to collect her thoughts and emotions. The question — about what Chiles felt she lost when the International Olympic Committee stripped her of her bronze medal in the Olympic women’s gymnastics floor exercise — forced her to stop mid-answer. “It’s about the fact there were things that have led up to …

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4 months, 1 week ago

USA chiefs set to APPEAL decision to strip Jordan Chiles of Olympic bronze medal after bombshell ruling

Daily Mail

The US Olympic & Paralympic Committee has appealed the Olympic chiefs' decision to take Jordan Chiles' bronze medal after she stepped on the podium for the floor competition in Paris. Early on Sunday, the International Olympic Committee confirmed it will re-award Chiles' bronze medal to Romanian gymnast Ana Barbosu after the sport's highest court voided an on-floor appeal from Chiles' …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

IOC’s handling of the Jordan Chiles ruling is disturbing and shameful

New York Times

An earlier version of this article misidentified the United States’ original appeal recipient. One of her coaches believed the judges failed to include the correct degree of difficulty for Chiles’ split leap — she received a 5.800 instead of the proper 5.900 — and filed an appeal. The Court of Arbitration for Sport supported the claim, ruling Landi missed the …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

‘We ugly cried.’ Jordan Chiles savors euphoria of surprise Olympic bronze medal

LA Times

American Jordan Chiles bursts into tears after learning she won the bronze medal Monday during the women’s individual floor finals at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. Whether the inquiry submitted by Jordan Chiles’ coach would move her onto the podium or keep her in fifth place during the floor exercise final on Monday, Gina was already proud. “We ugly …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Paris Olympics: Simone Biles makes stunning return to competition

The Hindu

Simone Biles made a stunning return to Olympic competition on July 28, powering through left calf pain to get her multiple-medal bid off to a rousing start. It’s OK.” Landi, who said Biles aggravated a minor injury she’d been dealing with for a couple of weeks, said there was never any question the superstar gymnast would not continue. “We’ve never …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

Simone Biles moves closer to 3rd Olympic trip as injuries mount behind her at US trials

Associated Press

MINNEAPOLIS — Maybe the most remarkable thing about Simone Biles’ decade-plus run redefining what’s possible in gymnastics is how she has managed to stay healthy while doing it. Before Biles hopped on the uneven bars in her first event, Kayla DiCello’s hopes of joining Biles in Paris ended with a torn right Achilles suffered a few feet away on vault. …

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5 months, 4 weeks ago

Simone Biles aims to lock up Paris berth at U.S. Olympic trials

The Hindu

Simone Biles looks all but unstoppable as she vies to punch her ticket to Paris at the U.S. Olympic gymnastics trials this week, where competition to fill out the five-woman roster promises to be fierce. Simone Biles continues Paris Olympics prep by cruising to her 9th U.S. Championships title “I think we always knew she could be better,” Landi said …

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5 months, 4 weeks ago

US gymnastics great Biles aims to lock up Paris berth at US Olympic trials

China Daily

Gymnast Simone Biles begins her floor routine during the final day of the 2024 USA Gymnastics Championships at Dickies Arena, Fort Worth, Texas, US on June 2, 2024. "I think we always knew she could be better," Landi said Wednesday as women began training at the Target Center in Minneapolis, where the trials start on Thursday with men's competition. Defending …

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7 months, 4 weeks ago

Georgia tabs Cecile Landi, Simone Biles’ longtime coach, as co-head coach of women’s gymnastics team

Associated Press

ATHENS, Ga. — Georgia has hired Cecile Canqueteau-Landi, a longtime personal coach of Olympic gymnastics champion Simone Biles, to help lead the GymDogs, the school’s women’s gymnastics program. Canqueteau-Landi will serve as a co-head coach alongside Ryan Roberts, who spent the last two years as an assistant under Courtney Kupets Carter. Canqueteau-Landi, who competed for France at the 1996 Olympics, …

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54 years, 11 months ago

Simone Biles falls on the vault—and still wins silver at the World Championships.

Slate

Last week, 10 years to the day after a braces-bedecked Simone Biles claimed her first world title at Belgium’s Sportpaleis Antwerpen, the grown-up Mrs. Owens returned to that very arena. There, Biles attempted the stratospherically difficult vault she debuted domestically in 2021: a roundoff entry onto the apparatus, with a second flip added in “post-flight.” This vault had informally been …

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