Olympian Jordan Chiles’ Sister Says RACISM Is Fueling The Hate

Daily Report August 11,2024

Olympic gold medalist Jordan Chiles announced that she’d be taking a break from social media after having bronze taken away on a scoring change.

The change has caused a firestorm, specifically among the legions of Jordan’s fans and notably in her big sister Jazmin, who is telling people to stop writing racist garbage online.

“Please keep Jordan (and my family) in your prayers,” Jazmin wrote in a lengthy Instagram story. “Racism is real, it exists, it is alive and well.

“They have officially, 5 days later, stripped her of one of her medals. Not because she didn’t win, not because she was drugged, not because she stepped out of bounds. Not because she wasn’t good enough.”

“But because the judges failed to give her difficulty [score] and forced an inquiry to be made.”

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“FOUR SECONDS. Her bronze was stripped over 4 seconds of time that would have never needed to happen if the judges did their job.”

In its ruling, CAS said the judges should have ruled an inquiry requested by Chiles about her difficulty score after a one-minute window set forth by the Federation Internationale de Gymnastique. Romanian gymnast Ana Barbosu therefore took the bronze medal, with Chiles’ team mate Sabrina Maneca-Voinea placed in fourth and leaving hers just outside a medals position. It was a fate Chiles avoided in Rio, where she failed to win her first Olympic medal as an individual.

The U.S. Olympic Committee will appeal the decision.

“Just so y’all are aware – in the HISTORY of the Olympics NO ONE has ever been stripped of a medal for this,” Jazmin Chiles wrote in another post. “Also – there are only TWO ways you can be stripped of a medal. Cheating or doping. She did neither.”

Jazmin said she doesn’t think racism was “the root cause” of the medal being removed from Jordan, but notes about racist messages her sister has been getting online.

Jordan Chiles was not the only one sharing her frustration with the ruling on social media, as Suni Lee also reacted publicly.

“All this talk about the athlete, what about the judges??” Lee wrote. “Completely unacceptable. This is awful and I’m gutted for Jordan. I got your back forever, Jo.”

Jordan posted a line of broken heart emojis to her Instagram story on Saturday, noting that she was stepping back from social media for the good of her mental health.