Flavor Flav presents Jordan Chiles with bronze watch necklace amid Olympic scoring controversy

Flavonoid flavor is Jordan’s backbone.

The 65-year-old rapper, who was a breakout star at the 2024 Paris Olympics after he enthusiastically cheered on Team USA, posted on X (formerly Twitter) On August 11, he said he was ready to help Chiles after she was stripped of her bronze medal in the floor exercise final.

“Oh hey @ChilesJordan I’m making you a bronze watch necklace, it’s not made by anyone else, call me girl, I got it!!!” he wrote, adding a GIF of himself dancing at the Olympics wearing one of his signature watch necklaces.

Flavor Flav is known for his signature watch necklaces, and he wore one (or more) while cheering on Team USA during the Paris Olympics. His offer to Chili’s came after the medal was stripped from him following a gymnastics scoring controversy.

On August 5, Chiles, 23, competed in the floor exercise finals and eventually took the bronze medal after her coach, Cecile Landy of USA Gymnastics, queried the judges about her score (which initially placed her in fifth place). The queries were successful, showing that her hard start value was incorrect, and she moved to third place.

Chiles’ score rose from 13.666 to 13.766, putting her ahead of Romanian gymnast Ana Barbosu – who was initially the presumptive bronze medalist when the results were released – who earned 13.700 points.

On August 11, a CAS judge ruled in favor of Barboso and Sabrina Manica-Voinha, another Romanian gymnast, saying that Çelis would lose her medal and it would be redistributed to Barboso. Manica-Voinha’s score was also revised after the competition to 13.700 after an appeal by a deduction for out-of-bounds, leaving the two Romanian gymnasts tied. However, Manica-Voinha was officially placed fourth, and Çelis was placed fifth, as it currently stands.

“We are in contact with the Romanian Olympic Committee to discuss the medal return ceremony, and with the US Olympic Committee regarding the return of the bronze medal,” the IOC said in a statement.

The CAS decision has been referred to the International Olympic Committee and the International Gymnastics Federation to determine how the medals will be redistributed.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled that Landy’s inquiry was not made within the one-minute time limit for inquiries, however, USA Gymnastics now says it has video evidence to prove otherwise.

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“USA Gymnastics on Sunday formally submitted a letter and video evidence to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, conclusively confirming that head coach Cecile Landy’s request for an investigation was filed 47 seconds after the result was published, within the one-minute deadline required by the International Gymnastics Federation’s rules,” the federation said in a statement shared with People magazine on August 11.

The letter to the Court of Arbitration for Sport included a request from USA Gymnastics to “review the ruling and re-count Chiles’ bronze medal (13.766),” according to a statement issued on August 11.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport will then have to review the evidence presented by USA Gymnastics to determine whether the ruling is correct.

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While Chiles has been off social media, saying she is “distanced from herself” during this time for her “mental health,” many people have spoken out on her behalf, including her gymnastics teammates.

Simone Biles, who took home the silver medal in floor exercise, wrote on her Instagram account on August 10: “Sending you so much love Jordan. Hold your head up high Olympic champion! We love you!”

Chiles also received support from fellow gymnasts Sunny Lee and Jade Carey. mailHe wrote to me: “All this talk about the athlete, what about the referees? This is absolutely unacceptable. This is terrible and I feel bad for Jordan. I will support you forever, Joe. Flowers to you and you will always be an Olympic champion.”

“Don’t punish an athlete for someone else’s mistake. With you all the way, Joe. You are an Olympic champion forever and have so much to be proud of,” Carey added in an Instagram post.

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