Jordan Chiles Olympics Controversy Highlights Arbitral Issues
By Jay R. Schleppenbach
Alternative Dispute Resolution,
November 2024
On August 10, 2024, United States Olympic gymnast Jordan Chiles made headlines when the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) overturned her bronze-medal finish in the gymnastics floor exercise finals of the Paris Olympics and instead held that bronze should be awarded to a Romanian gymnast. Chiles has appealed the CAS’s decision to the Swiss Supreme Court. Whatever the merits of that appeal may be, the controversy has brought arbitration issues into the limelight in an interesting way.
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