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Why Jordan Chiles' score changed, giving her bronze medal in Olympic floor final

Tom SchadUSA TODAYEditor's note: The International Olympic Committee ruled early Sunday Jordan Chiles will be required to return her Olympic bronze, which will be reallocated to Romania's Ana Barbosu.PARIS — When the last score was announced in the women's floor exercise final Monday, Ana Barbosu of Romania leaped onto the floor with her country's flag and started jumping down in celebration. And Jordan Chiles was deflated, thinking she had missed out on the podium.Then, in seconds, their moods flipped − and a distraught Barbosu dropped her Romanian flag on the ground.Chiles leapfrogged Barbosu to win a stunning bronze medal on floor at the 2024 Paris Olympics after her coaches successfully challenged a minor scoring decision made by the judges, boosting her to third place from fifth. It gave the 23-year-old the first individual Olympic medal of her career, in incredibly dramatic fashion."I was so tired, I didn't even realize my coaches put an inquiry in," Chiles said. "And I was like,...

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