Exclusive: Jordan Chiles’ Bronze Medal Controversy Sees New Development as Gymnastics Icon Makes Honest Confession…..Read More

August 5, 2024: Sabrina Maneca-Voinea and her Romanian teammate Ana Barbosu stand at a score of matching scores of 13.700 in the Paris Olympics floor exercise finals. The latter, thinking she had won the bronze after a tiebreaker, starts celebrating with a Romanian flag. But not so early.

Jordan Chiles’s coaches called for an inquiry on her score, bringing her 0.1 points more. This boosted her position to three from five, going over the Romanians. Barbosu covered her face with her hands and went away from the arena in tears, seeing the scorecard change. But was it the only heartbreak?

Unfortunately, the answer is a BIG NO! An appeal was made by Team Romania, saying that Chiles’ inquiry was submitted four seconds late. Days later, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) agreed with them, and just like that, Jordan Chiles was no longer the 2024 Olympic Bronze Medalist according to CAS.

But that could have been the end of it, right? But to this day, Chiles has yet to return her medal and is fighting for it by challenging it in the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland. In the meantime, Barbosu was awarded a new one.

But in all this, Sabrina Voinea was not talked of much, but now even her part of the story has also started to come out, thanks to her mother. What did she say?

Probably feeling angry with the post-controversy bronze medal controversy, Sabrina Voinea’s mother, Camelia Voinea, the former Romanian gymnast, said on Facebook today, “The moment Sabrina’s medal was stolen in Paris…” in Romanian, which was then translated to English.

This came out as a caption to a TikTok, which started with Jordan Chiles’ footage celebrating with her team after winning the bronze with the TikTok version of the song “Who Is She?” by I Monster.

The overlaying text said, “She may have won the „3RD place,” which switched to “but we all know who actually WON” when Sabrina Voinea entered the video with her Paris floor routine with the words, “Watch for heat, does it touch the mat? And I’ll tell you what, it does not” being extra loud in the background.

This looked like a shot at the CAS, who didn’t address Voinea’s appeal according to the Romanian Gymnastic Federation.