Romania’s Ana Barbosu Breaks Silence As USA Gymnastics Submits Additional Evidence For Jordan Chiles

Romanian gymnast Ana Bărbosu is breaking her silence after the International Olympic Committee ordered Jordan Chiles to return her Olympic bronze medal, announcing that it will now be awarded to Ana. On Sunday, August 11, the first-time Olympian took to Instagram to address the controversy writing in part, “Sabrina [Maneca-Voinea], Jordan, my thoughts are with you. I know what you are feeling because I’ve been through the same. But I know you’ll come back stronger. I hope from the deep of my heart that at the next Olympics, all three of us will share [the] same podium.” However, USA Gymnastics also released a statement Sunday announcing that they have “formally submitted a letter and video evidence to the Court of Arbitration for Sport” which requests that the “CAS ruling be revised and Chiles’ bronze-medal score of 13.766 reinstated.”