Team USA gymnast Jordan Chiles could be stripped of her bronze medal

Judges should be ashamed of themselves for causing this mess in the first place. Make it right and give them both medals!

this makes no sense whatsoever.  it was the judges fault to begin with for overlooking Jordan's performance and not giving her the 0.10 she earned when she performed her floor routine, thus placing her in her rightful spot as 3rd. The judges should be fired. This is so so wrong.

I can see Romania challenging solely based on the embarrassment of their athlete. The judges messed this one up and should let both women keep bronze purely from the embarrassment they both are experiencing now.

They better not take her medal away for something that wasn’t her fault. Just give them both bronze. USA gymnastics committee better fight for her to keep it.

Is there anything these folks have gotten right. This has been a disaster.

Both the U.S. and Romania have said they would be fine with awarding two bronze medals, as has been done before in cases like this. CAS is wilding. If the judges had actually judged correctly, then none of this would have happened because no inquiries would have been required for the gymnasts to receive accurate scores.

Give both girls the Bronze. Seriously, what difference does two 3rd place awards make in the grand scheme of things.

Award them both the bronze after everything they’ve been publicly put through because the judging panel didn’t properly do their jobs

Honestly the judges are 100% at fault. The real loser is the Romanian gymnast Sabrina Maneca-Voinea who came in 5th. The judges incorrectly penalized her for stepping out of bounds when she didn't. Her score would've been 13.800, higher than Barbosu's and higher than Chiles' score including her inquiry. Smh give all three of them bronze atp.

they both get bronze, TF? its not that difficult

Everyone lost with this one... even if the other girl gets the medal, she lost the podium moment. And even if Chiles missed 4 secs from the require 1 min, it doesn't mean she didn't complete the routine that was the winning one or scored enough points for the bronze —which meant she did still earn it. So even if they did give the bronze to the Romanian Gymnast, she still scored less than Chiles. Basically, the take a way is the Judges and officials messed up as they didn't score correctly in the first places and no one checked to see if they were withing the 1 min mark. So they made this mess up but both gymnast suffered.

Give both the bronze. Would be heartless to take it away from one since it was neither girls fault.

Award them both the bronze. You cant say that it was four seconds to late. That is a lame excuse. It makes no sense at all. The judges should have done their job in the first place and judge correctly. Shameful.

It was the judges' fault. Sometimes, it takes longer than 1 minute to see that the judges might have made a mistake. Jordan deserves that bronze. She earned it. She should not lose what she has earned because of the judges' mistakes. Those judges are looking so stupid at the moment. PLEASE LET HER KEEP IT!!!!

Four seconds too late is the same as disqualifying Indian Wrestler from appearing in gold medal match for being 100gms overweight. Yes 100 GRAMS

I was devastated to see the Romanian girl's heartbreak on live tv and thought the Olympics and live coverage did her real dirty for that. It seemed a part of the rules, though, and it might've been a lesson on celebrating prematurely, but still awful. Now, to do that to another amazingly hardworking girl, they should let them both keep it and reevaluate themselves. Rediculous the mental toll they are putting on both.

Award Jordan or BOTH gymnasts the medal and also reprimand the judges for causing this confusion in the first place.

Team USA should get just as petty and challenge when the timer began. Argue that the timer was started 4 seconds too early.

Seems to me that the Romanians complained enough that they tried to find a reason to backtrack. "Oh, you were 4 seconds too late..." Pretty BS move when they hadn't given her proper credit for her routine's difficulty.

This is an injustice. There should be a rule that states judges can’t retract a medal based on a technicality like this. She was the better athlete! The Olympics is about sportsmanship, the judges made a mistake twice at this point. The initial ruling and deciding to take the inquiry 4 mins late if they weren’t supposed to were their mistakes. The fact of the matter is they wouldn’t even have to have submitted the inquiry if the judges were doing their job right in the first place. This is a perfect of example of sports in service to rules rather than rules in service to sports. One minute to catch a mistake and submit an inquiry is a rule that has nothing to do with the competition outside of time efficiency for the logistics of flow of the competition. Having the option to challenge the rulings makes the competition more fair because there is obviously human error. Getting to the right and fair judgement should always be the priority over an auxiliary time technicality.