Flavor Flav Reveals Custom Bronze Necklace for Jordan Chiles

Flavor Flav is coming by way of along with his promise to present Jordan Chiles a bronze necklace after the Court docket of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) dominated that Chiles should return her bronze medal.

The information got here after the 23-year-old gymnast’s dramatic bronze medal win within the flooring train last, secured by a last-minute attraction from her coach, Cecile Landi. Landi’s problem prompted a rating revision that propelled Chiles from fifth to 3rd place, knocking Romanian gymnast Ana Barbosu, who had initially claimed the bronze with a rating of 13.700, off of the rostrum.

Shortly earlier than the CAS introduced that Jordan Chiles needed to return her bronze medal, the gymnast determined to take a step again from social media.

The Court docket of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) initially discovered that Head Coach Cecile Landi’s attraction was submitted exterior the one-minute deadline. USA Gymnastics fired again, claiming they’ve video proof that the inquiry was really throughout the allowed time.

Nevertheless, on August 12, the Court docket of Arbitration for Sport mentioned it will not contemplate overturning its ruling regardless of new proof from USA Gymnastics.

“USA Gymnastics was notified by the Court docket of Arbitration for Sport on Monday that their guidelines don’t enable for an arbitral award to be reconsidered even when conclusive new proof is introduced,” USA Gymnastics mentioned in a statement. “We’re deeply disenchanted by the notification and can proceed to pursue each attainable avenue and attraction course of, together with the Swiss Federal Tribunal, to make sure that simply scoring, placement and medal award for Jordan.”

“Ayyy YOOOO @ChilesJordan,,, imma make you a BRONZE CLOCK NECKLACE,,, and that’s one thing NO ONE else has,!!! Hit me up my lady,,, I gotchu,!!!” he wrote in an X post earlier this week.

Just a few days later, he got here by way of with that promise. “USA gonna Battle the Powers that be for our lady Jordan Chiles,,, however within the meantime between time,,, I gots ya this one among a sort Bronze clock,” he wrote in a video unveiling the one-of-a-kind piece of glitz. “Thankx to @ROCK’N STONES for creating this gem so rapidly,!!!”

Followers could not get sufficient of the customized piece, because the feedback part was flooded with assist. “That is superb. Jordan will all the time be the rightful bronze medal winner. That iconic podium picture won’t ever go away,” one consumer mentioned.

“Uncle Flav! America’s favourite uncle,” one other wrote.

“You’re the greatest womens hype machine. Thanks!!!” a 3rd mentioned.

“You proceed to be a tremendous Human,” another person commented.

On Sunday, August 11, proper earlier than the closing ceremonies of the 2024 Paris Olympics, 18-year-old Barbosu took to her Instagram Tales to handle the Court docket of Arbitration for Sport ruling.

“Sabrina [Maneca-Voinea], Jordan, my ideas are with you. I do know what you’re feeling, as a result of I have been by way of the identical. However I do know you may come again stronger,” Barbosu wrote on social media. “I hope from deep of my coronary heart that on the subsequent Olympics, all three of us will share [the] similar podium. That is my true dream!”

She continued, “This case wouldn’t have existed if the individuals in cost had revered the regulation. We, athletes are to not be blamed, and the hate directed to us is painful. I wished to finish this version of the Olympic Video games Paris 2024 within the spirit of Olympism, the true worth of the world.”

USA Gymnastics and the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee launched a joint assertion following the ruling: “We’re devastated. The inquiry within the Problem Worth of Jordan Chiles’ flooring train routine was filed in good religion and, we believed, in accordance with FIG guidelines to make sure correct scoring.”

The assertion additionally famous Chiles had been subjected to “completely baseless and very hurtful assaults on social media.”