Gina Chiles and Jordan Chiles. John Nacion/Getty Photos
As followers and celebrities proceed to rally round Jordan Chiles amid her Olympic medal drama, the gymnast’s mom is giving one star a particular shout-out.
“Thanks. Means the world,” Gina Chiles wrote by way of X on Monday, August 12, resharing a video Taste Flav shared of the bronze clock necklace he made for Jordan, 23. “She’s not on socials proper now as you’ll be able to think about. I’ll share it along with her 🫶🏽.”
Earlier this week, Flav, 65, introduced by way of X that he was creating the customized piece for Jordan, writing, “Ayyy YOOOO @ChilesJordan ,,, imma make you a BRONZE CLOCK NECKLACE,,, and that’s one thing NO ONE else has,!!! Hit me up my lady,,, I gotchu,!!!”
He confirmed off the necklace in an X video on Monday. Hanging on a white rope chain, the pendant featured a clock bedazzled with bronze-colored gems. The rapper debuted the jewellery piece in patriotic trend by filming it on an American flag backdrop.
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“USA gonna Combat the Powers that be,,, within the meantime between time,,, Imma all the time a person of my phrase @ChilesJordan,” he captioned the clip.
Flav’s assist for Jordan comes after information that she will likely be stripped of her Olympic bronze medal. The athlete initially positioned fifth within the girls’s ground train ultimate on the 2024 Paris Olympics on August 5. She was ran into third place after her coach submitted an inquiry into her routine, inflicting her rating to be modified.
Thanks. Means the world. She’s not on socials proper now as you’ll be able to think about. I’ll share it along with her. 🫶🏽 https://t.co/HzavHHYxhp
— Gina Chiles (@gina_chiles) August 13, 2024
Romanian gymnast Ana Barbosu misplaced out on the bronze because of this, whereas her teammate Sabrina Maneca-Voinea’s rating remained the identical after their coaches positioned an inquiry of their very own into her efficiency. The outcomes have sparked backlash from Workforce Romania, with Romanian Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu boycotting the closing ceremony in protest.
5 days later, the Courtroom of Arbitration of Sport (CAS) decided that Workforce USA’s inquiry into Jordan’s routine was filed 4 seconds over their one-minute deadline. The Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC) confirmed at some point later that Jordan’s medal could be stripped and reallocated to Barbosu, 18.
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On Sunday, August 11, the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee introduced plans to attraction the medal removing, with USA Gymnastics claiming to have “video proof” proving the inquiry was made inside the correct time restrict. The attraction was finally denied by the CAS.
“USA Gymnastics was notified by the Courtroom of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on Monday that their guidelines don’t permit for an arbitral award to be reconsidered even when conclusive new proof is offered,” USA Gymnastics later wrote by way of X. “We’re deeply disillusioned by the notification and can proceed to pursue each potential avenue and attraction course of, together with to the Swiss Federal Tribunal, to make sure the simply scoring, placement and medal award for Jordan.”
Jordan Chiles Tim Clayton/Corbis by way of Getty Photos
Olympic gymnast Aly Raisman known as the choice “so unfair” and “so merciless” throughout Monday’s episode of As we speak earlier than providing a possible answer to the dispute. “The IOC has given multiple medal earlier than, and I feel they need to do this now,” she said. “It’s terrible.”
Raisman, 30, additionally mentioned she’s been in communication with Jordan — who introduced she’d be taking a break from social media — all through the medal controversy. “There’s been horrific bullying, and I simply really feel for her. My coronary heart’s going out to her,” she added. “I assist her totally, and I’m simply so unhappy and so disillusioned that that is taking place, and it’s unfair.”
