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Jordan Chiles appeals ‘unfair’ decision that cost her Olympic bronze medal [Video]

Jordan Chiles filed an appeal of the decision that led to the U.S. gymnast being stripped of an Olympic bronze medal, her attorneys announced Monday.Video above: Romanian gymnast Ana Barbosu gets her bronze medalChiles was stripped of her first individual Olympic medal after the Romanian gymnastics team challenged the decision to revise her final score in the floor exercise to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).CAS eventually upheld the challenge, meaning the U.S. star’s bronze went to Romania’s Ana Bǎrbosu.Chiles has now opted to appeal CAS’ decision to the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland – where CAS is based.”From start to finish, the procedures leading to the CAS panel’s decision were fundamentally unfair, and it is no surprise that they resulted in an unjust decision,” Chiles’ attorneys said in a press release.Her attorneys argue CAS violated Chiles’ “right to be heard” by “refusing to consider the video evidence that …

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