Jordan Chiles Addresses Cheating Accusations and ‘Hate Comments’ on Social Media

Aside from a statement she released on her Twitter and Instagram pages on Aug. 15, Jordan Chiles has been radio silent about the contentious ruling that led to her losing her Olympic bronze medal.

However, Chiles shed some light on what she went through in the days after the controversy, touching on how she’s coped with the being the victim of racially-driven attacks from people spreading hateful insults for seemingly no reason to how she handled people accusing her of cheating at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Though Chiles’ comments on the “Way Up with Angela Yee” podcast were recorded on Aug. 9, the episode wasn’t released until Friday out of respect for Chiles and her family.

“That’s what gets on my nerves — they only follow our sport when they come into the Olympic part of things,” Chiles said . “…I always say when it comes to people with these hate comments, they have something within themselves that they can’t control or they don’t like. You’re looking in the mirror and you’re annoyed with something that’s in yourself, so you’re going to go on social media and attack somebody else. What is that?”

In addition to the social-media backlash, Chiles was also accused by some of cheating Romania’s Ana Barbosu out of third place in the floor exercise after a score inquiry from her coaches bumped her from fifth to third place just ahead of Barbosu.

“It all does come down to the judges,” Chiles added. “I didn’t do anything wrong, my coaches didn’t do anything wrong, so the biggest thing I think a lot of people are taking away from it is, ‘Oh, she changed the score.’ Well, I can’t control that. I can’t control something that they did. It’s a rule, it’s literally in the handbook. Go look at the handbook. At this rate, half of y’all do even do our sport, so like, what are you complaining about?”

Chiles’ coaches were well within their right to request a score inquiry after the completion of her routine once they deemed one of her elements wasn’t given the proper degree of difficulty.

In fact, gold-medal winner Rebeca Andrade and fourth-place finisher Sabrina Maneca-Voinea both issued score inquiries during the same event as well, but neither were accepted because they weren’t requested in time.

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