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Simone Biles and Suni Lee came to the support of Jordan Chiles on social media as the American gymnast’s bronze medal win in the floor exercise is in limbo.

Chiles may end up having to return the Olympic medal after the Center of Arbitration for Sport ruled Saturday that her score must revert to the original mark because the U.S. did not file an inquiry with judges in time. The International Olympic Committee on Sunday determined that Chiles must return her medal, but USA Gymnastics appealed the ruling, saying it had video evidence showing coaches made the inquiry in time.

As Chiles wrote on her Instagram Stories over the weekend that she was heartbroken over the chaotic situation, Biles and Lee offered messages of support.

“Sending you so much love Jordan,” Biles wrote on her Instagram Stories. “Keep your chin up olympic champ! We love you!”

Lee wrote a loving message of support as well and took a swipe at Olympic officials over the debacle.

“All this talk about the athlete, what about the judges?? Completely unacceptable. This is awful and I’m gutted for Jordan,” she wrote. “I got your back forever Jo. (You) have all my flowers and you will ALWAYS be an Olympic champion.”

Team USA wrote on its X account, “Forever THAT girl.”

If Chiles is stripped of her medal, she will become only the third gymnast in history to have an Olympic medal stripped. The other two were China’s Dong Fangxiao and Romania’s Andreea Răducan, both of whom lost their medals from the 2000 Sydney Olympics.

Răducan’s individual all-around gold medal was stripped after testing positive for a banned substance from cold-medicine pills given to her by a team doctor. China’s team all-around bronze was stripped after it was discovered Dong was just 14 years old in Sydney, which is two years too young to compete.

Fox News’ Jackson Thompson contributed to this report.

Simone Biles was left fuming with Olympics fans for ‘shushing’ in the middle of her balance beam routine on Monday after a rare mistake saw her miss out on a medal.

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SUNI LEE

Before she recovered from a nasty slip in her warmup to win silver in the floor final, Biles failed to make it onto the podium for the first time at this summer’s Paris Games after she briefly lost her footing and was forced to step off the beam.

As a result, the American gymnastics legend did not add to her tally of three gold medals after receiving a disappointing score of 13.100.

Biles’ USA teammate Suni Lee, who suffered a more disastrous fall when she came flying off the beam at the end of her routine, revealed that both of them were thrown off by the ‘tense’ atmosphere inside Bercy Arena.

As they cheered their teammates on, Lee claims athletes were subjected to ‘shushing’ noises on the sidelines with the crowd urging them to be quiet.

‘You could feel the tension in the room. I mean, the crowd shushing us for cheering,’ the 21-year-old said after getting the same score of 13.100.

‘We did not like that, just because it’s just so silent in there. I love hearing my teammates cheer for me.’

Lee then recalled Biles fuming after her routine came to an end. ‘Me and Simone were like, “Why are they shushing?” Like, we’re just trying to cheer.

‘But yeah, [Biles] came off and she was like, “I don’t know why they were shushing in the middle of my routine.”‘

When television cameras cut to her after the routine, Biles appeared to be asking her coach why fans were shushing in the venue.

Lee went on to describe the atmosphere inside Bercy Arena as being eerily quiet, which she believes may have contributed to their errors on the day.

‘I could literally hear myself breathing.’

Biles still had another chance to win her fourth medal of this summer’s Olympics later in the day, which she did after taking silver in the women’s floor final.

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SIMONE BILES

The 27-year-old, who has become USA’s most decorated gymnast of all time in Paris by taking her overall Olympics medal tally to 10, has already won team, all-around and vault titles over the past week.

However, the slight stumble on the beam meant she missed out on the opportunity to add to the bronzes she won in this event at the 2016 and 2020 Games.

Wearing a blue-and-white leotard featuring over 5,000 crystals, Biles was more than halfway through her set when she couldn’t quite keep her balance.

She hopped off the beam and onto the mat while thousands inside a packed Bercy Arena let out an audible gasp.

There was an extended wait for her score to post. At one point, Biles rolled her eyes in seeming annoyance knowing she wasn’t going to finish on the medal stand.

Simone Biles’ strong finish not enough after faltering on beam | Paris Olympics
Simone Biles is forced to reset after losing her balance and is able to finish strong, but it’s not enough to claim a podium spot in the beam final.

Biles finished in a tie for fifth with Lee, whose hopes for a gold on beam she’s long coveted ended in the middle of her routine when she fell during the end of her acro series, just like the former did a few minutes later.

As she warmed up for the floor final, Biles appeared to injure her calf muscle after slipping on the mat.

She then went on to post a score of 14.133 on the floor, which was not enough for the gold medal after Brazil’s Rebecca Andrade scored 14.166 to hold onto first place.

Instead Biles was forced to settle for silver in her final event at this summer’s Games, meaning she leaves Paris with four medals in the bag.

There were fears for the 10-time medalist before she started her performance though after she was left grimacing as she finished her practice routine.

She then went to get medical attention and came back wearing a strapping on her left leg. Biles also appeared to be limping as she tried to walk off the injury.

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What to know

  • Simone Biles won the 2024 Olympic all-around title, making her the first two-time all-around champion since 1968.
  • This was the first time in Olympic history that two previous all-around gold medalists were on the same team and going head to head: Suni Lee (2020) and Simone Biles (2016).
  • Simone Biles, 27, became the oldest all-around champion in 72 years.

    Simone Biles says she started the morning of her historic win with therapy

    The Olympic gold medalist credited therapy for helping get her to gold. During a press conference following her win on Aug. 1, the gymnast told reporters that her day began with a session with her therapist.

    “Even this morning at 7 a.m., I saw my therapist, and there’s a time change,” she told reporters. “So she is so amazing for allowing me to do that these (past) couple of days … I think you see that on the competition floor.”

    Biles has spoken openly about turning to therapy as a tool in recent years. During a 2021 interview with TODAY’s Hoda Kotb, she reflected on how her struggles with mental health forced her to withdraw from multiple events at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics. She explained how therapy helped her to confront those challenges.

    “I don’t think people understand the magnitude of what I go through,” she said at the time. “But for so many years to go through everything that I’ve gone through having a front, I’m proud of myself.”

    Simone glitters and is all gold in GOAT necklace featuring 546 diamonds

    The Olympic champ showed off her gold medal and a goat necklace by Parisian jeweler Janet Heller Fine Jewelry.

According to a post from the jewler, Biles commissioned the three-dimensional piece adorned with 546 diamonds.

See moment Simone Biles and Suni Lee take victory lap as crowd roars

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In the moments just before their medals were announced, video showed the two gymnasts waiting with bated breath in a nearly silent stadium.

As their results appeared, the crowd applauded, and Lee shook the American flag. Biles was the first to take to the floor before being quickly joined by her teammate. The two celebrated as their lively audience clapped and shouted from the stadium.

Simone Biles is back on top, summits the top of the podium for medal ceremony

With a gold medal in her hand, Biles waved from the top of the podium during the gymnastics all-around medal ceremony.

The 27-year-old stood next Brazilian gymnast Rebeca Andrade, who won silver, and her fellow U.S. gymnastics teammate Suni Lee, who took home a bronze medal.

The gymnast took home the individual all-around gold medal for the second time in her Olympic career. Her win is the first time an American gymnast has won two golds for the all-around final.

Suni Lee embraces Simone Biles after floor routine and anticipated win

The two members hugged after competing in the Artistic Gymnastics Women’s All-Around Final. The two gymnasts closed out their time at the games with a gold medal for Biles and a bronze for Lee.

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