Jordan Chiles cries as she breaks silence on losing USA Olympic bronze medal: 'People didn't support me, I was left in the dark'

Daily Mail UK ^ | September 11, 2024 | Alex Raskin

[Morgana]

Jordon shut up! That little girl from Romania was better than you! In fact a lot of girls were way better than you that day. Get used to it the world is not going to give you a medal because you are black.

[God luvs America]

Actually she was not better than Chiles- the judges messed up and admitted as much. But so much for the facts...

[for-q-clinton]

Blame your coach...the coach screwed up. So she’s saying the coach is racist I guess.

[for-q-clinton]

Facts are the coach didn’t appeal in time. The coach is the idiot/cheater to blame.

[goodolemr]

There was never a ground swell of support and it looked like internal politics between different countries.

And football season started right. Of course people were gonna move on, oh and the female athlete that has people’s eyes is Clark, not anyone who competed in the games.

[God luvs America]

no disputing that...but she was not better than Chiles in that event, and the judges admitted as much by adding .1 to her score...

[mdmathis6]

There was video evidence that was submitted Sunday that the appeal was made 13 seconds before the deadline...it should count for something. And .1 point is .1 point. Too bad for the Romanian!

So I guess the fight is ongoing!

[Political Junkie Too]

A minute is not a lot of time to first deal with the disappointment of your gymnast, then realize there was a scoring error, and then get over to the judges' table to file the appeal.

I could see holding the team to the one minute ruling if the appeal involved a judgment call made by one of the judges, but if it were a true mistake in calculating the score then the time limit should be waived.

I think it was political. The United States was racking up the medals and the judges wanted to "spread the wealth around" to other nations.

-PJ

[DesertRhino]

She was chunky, her act was clunky and not graceful. She screwed up a couple of landings. The girl from Romania was much more graceful and her act was flawless. The Olympics wanted an all black medal stand.

[dfwgator]

Waaah, go cry to Kamala about it.

[lepton]

I agree. Though her blaming the mistake/misfortune on her skin color is facile.

[Hot Tabasco]

oh and the female athlete that has people’s eyes is Clark,

Lets see how many eyes are left now that it's come out that Clark liked Swift's instagram support of Harris.

[mass55th]

Wait until she has to compete against a man and gets trounced.

[Morgana]

I watched them both on youtube. Jordan was sloppy.

[God luvs America]

That’s great but you’re not a judge...they would not have given her the .1 on appeal if she did not deserve it...

And for the record- i most certainly was not rooting for her or Biles...

[dfwgator]

What a nation of whiners we’ve become.

[montag813]

They should give her a special ‘Black Medal”

[for-q-clinton]

A minute is the rule though. Don’t like it change the rules first. But that doesn’t make it racist that she didn’t win.

[TexasGator]

“Facts are the coach didn’t appeal in time. The coach is the idiot/cheater to blame.”

One minute window. OC said coach was SIX SECONDS late. Coach says otherwise.

[JZelle]

Power Women’s Summit? They should be more concerned about men taking over their sports.