Newly released footage shows that the judges of the women's floor exercise final at the Paris Olympics failed to act on a request from the U.S. coach to review Simone Biles' performance. If the request had been taken into account and Biles' score changed from what the U.S. coach saw, it's likely Biles would have won the gold medal.
Biles initially won the silver medal with a score of 14.133, just 0.333 behind Brazil's Rebeca Andrade, who won her second Olympic gold medal after a famous comeback from three torn ACLs.
The footage was submitted to the Swiss Federal Court as part of the trial of American teammate Jordan Childs for the bronze medal in the event, and has been made publicly available as an official Swiss court document.
In the video, Biles is heard asking her coach, Cecil Lundy, if he was questioning the judges about her appeal, to which her wife, Lauren Lundy, responds: “He said so.”
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Laurent can then be heard speaking in French, before Cécile turns to Biles and says, “They didn't send them.”
Biles was penalized 0.6 points for stepping off the mat, and if she had received full marks for the split jump, she would have received an additional 0.10 points for difficulty, giving her a score of 14.233 points, which would have put her ahead of Andrade, who received 14.166 points.
Had Biles won the event, the United States would have taken sole possession of first place in the gold medal count at the Paris Games with 41, but instead ended up tied with China with 40.
It would also have taken away one of the much-talked-about moments from the Paris Olympics, when Chiles and Biles bowed to Andrade on opposite sides of the medal podium, the first gymnast in Olympic history to stand on the podium wearing only her back, before further consideration.
Biles responded to the footage in a post on X Wednesday, saying she was pleased with the outcome and wanted to focus on Childs' trial.
“Rebecca had a better floor and I'm disappointed it wasn't dealt with but I'm not upset about the outcome,” Childs wrote. “But justice for Jordan.”
Biles has won 11 Olympic medals, more than any gymnast in U.S. history, including seven gold medals in the team event. She is the most decorated gymnast of all time, with 11 Olympic medals and 30 World Championship medals.
The video was provided to Chiles by the director of Biles' latest documentary project, “Simone Biles: Rising,” for Netflix. Director Katie Walsh and her production company Religion of Sport received permission to film Biles and her team during the Olympic competition. The footage was released to support Chiles' legal battle to win her bronze medal, which was stripped from her at the end of the Paris Olympics and given to Romania's Ana Barbos.
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Simone Biles and Jordan Childs of the United States pose with their Paris 2024 Olympic medals after the women's floor exercise final in gymnastics at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the Bercy Arena on August 5, 2024 in Paris. (Jamie Squire/Getty Images)
According to court documents filed Monday with the Swiss Federal Supreme Court, Childs' lawyers have submitted footage from the company that produces Biles' Netflix series that shows visual evidence in Childs' favor. According to multiple reports, the lawyers argue that the footage proves that a request for review that would have increased Childs' score was not filed in time.
Barbos initially won bronze on the floor exercise and began celebrating on the mat, but then U.S. coaches protested Chiles' score to the judges, and after a review, Chiles was awarded the bronze medal by 0.1 points, beating Barbos.
The initial ruling sparked a wave of backlash, with gymnastics legend Nadia Comaneci criticizing the scoring changes on social media and Romanian Prime Minister Marcel Colac threatening to boycott the Paris Olympics closing ceremony over the judging decision.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) subsequently ruled that the judging panel at the Games had improperly allowed an investigation to inflate Chilis's score. The following day, the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) ordered Chilis to return his medal. However, multiple reports have said that Chilis has not returned it and has no plans to do so.
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Simone Biles of the United States competes in the women's gymnastics team final at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the Bercy Arena on July 30, 2024 in Paris. (Aytac Unal/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Mr Childs' lawyers argue that the CAS, which handed down the final ruling, “violated Mr Childs' fundamental 'right to expression' by refusing to consider video evidence showing that Mr Childs' investigation was submitted in a timely manner, in direct contradiction to the CAS's ruling.”
Her lawyers also alleged a conflict of interest on the part of CAS President Hamid G. Garavi, who served as Romania's legal counsel for nearly a decade and was an active representative of the country at the time of the CAS decision to strip Chile of its medals.
Chiles sat down for the first time in an interview about the incident on Wednesday during a panel discussion at Forbes' Power Women Summit 2024. She visibly choked up when asked about the topic.
“For me, everything that's happened is not about the medal, it's about the color of my skin,” Chiles said through tears.
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