Olympic athlete Jordan Chiles stripped of bronze medal following score controversy

Chiles has been stripped of the bronze (Tom Weller/VOIGT/GettyImages)

Simone Biles took home the silver medal, while Brazil’s Rebeca Andrade took the gold.

While Chiles had scored 13.666 in the final – initially putting her in fifth place – it was later upgraded to 13.766, which placed her third and ahead of Barbosu.

Due to the score change, Barbosu lost her place on the podium.

The athlete had already been celebrating her bronze win, and was gutted when the appeal meant she lost out.

However, this has now been overturned. The decision came after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) upheld an appeal from the Romanian Olympic Committee.

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