Romanian gymnast Ana Bărbosu, who gained a bronze on flooring train on the 2024 Olympic Video games after a controversial ruling that stripped the medal from American Jordan Chiles, will be a part of Stanford’s gymnastics group within the fall. She introduced her dedication through Instagram on Wednesday.
“Can’t wait to hitch this superb household! Go Card,” she wrote.
Bărbosu, 18, was awarded the bronze medal six days after the ground train last after her group appealed to the Court docket of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). Throughout the Aug. 5 occasion, Chiles made the rostrum after her coach, Cecile Landi, efficiently inquired to have Chiles’ rating raised by 0.1, bumping her from fifth to 3rd place. The courtroom dominated that the judges presiding over the ultimate shouldn’t have accepted the inquiry as a result of Landi’s request got here 4 seconds after the one-minute deadline to submit it. The Worldwide Olympic Committee reallocated Chiles’ bronze medal to Bărbosu, who acquired it at a ceremony in Bucharest, Romania’s capital.
Bărbosu’s elation and devastation was within the highlight on the day of the ground train last. When Chiles, the final competitor within the occasion, initially scored a 13.666, Bărbosu — who scored 13.700 — started celebrating what she thought was a third-place end. After Landi’s inquiry led to Chiles’ rating change, Bărbosu’s dropped her Romanian flag out of shock and left the ground in tears.
Although Bărbosu is presently the official proprietor of the bronze, the medal remains to be tied up in appeals. Chiles’ attorneys filed a proper enchantment with the Swiss Federal Tribunal, Switzerland’s Supreme Court docket, to overturn the CAS ruling on Sept. 16 and added a second enchantment transient on Sept. 24. USA Gymnastics additionally filed a separate enchantment along side Chiles’ utility. Chiles’ attorneys are arguing that CAS didn’t take into account video proof that “confirmed her inquiry was submitted on time.”
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Whereas Bărbosu’s participation within the Paris Video games has largely been clouded by the ground last controversy, she helped Romania to a seventh-place end within the group last and earned a spot within the particular person all-around last. Within the 2026 NCAA gymnastics season, she’ll be a part of a Stanford squad that went on a Cinderella run from a No. 52 rating in Week 1 to the 2024 NCAA championship semifinal. It’s seemingly Bărbosu and Chiles will face off on the collegiate degree subsequent season, as Chiles might be finishing her senior season with UCLA gymnastics and Bărbosu will make her NCAA debut. Former Pac-12 foes Stanford and UCLA are in numerous conferences now (the ACC and Huge Ten, respectively), however the colleges have a twin meet slated for March 9, indicating they are going to seemingly proceed scheduling meets collectively sooner or later.
One other gymnast who competed for Romania on the 2024 Olympics may even enter the NCAA ranks quickly, as Lilia Cosman dedicated to Michigan State.
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