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Olympian Jordan Chiles Addresses Whether She'll Compete in 2028 Olympics After Medal Controversy

After Jordan Chiles was stripped of her bronze medal during the 2024 Paris Olympics last year, she shared whether she’ll return to the mat in Los Angeles in 2028. 

By Olivia Evans Jul 17, 2025 1:11 PM
| Updated Jul 17, 2025 1:54 PM
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Jordan Chiles is focusing on the present. 

After the Olympic gymnast was stripped of her bronze medal for her individual floor routine from Paris 2024 because of a scoring inquiry issue—the prize was instead awarded to Romania’s Ana Barbosu—she shared where she stands with competing in Los Angeles in 2028. 

“For now, I’m still embracing Paris,” she exclusively told E! News during the ESPY Awards red carpet July 16. “I’m still embracing the moments that we’ve all had since Paris. I have one more year of college and then we’ll just go from there.”

Indeed, Jordan, who is a rising senior at University of California Los Angeles, just competed in the NCAA Championships in April where she nabbed her second title for uneven bars and ranked first overall for the season in the floor routine. 

But, right now, the 24-year-old is embracing life off the mat.

“It’s been really fun—just finding ways outside of our sport to continue to live our life,” she gushed in an interview alongside Team USA teammate Suni Lee. “There’s more to us, we’re more than just athletes. I think our minds constantly grow and gravitate in different ways so I’ve just been enjoying it.”

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Jordan Chiles Addresses Possibility of 2028 Olympics After Medal Controversy

As for Suni—who was diagnosed with a career-threatening kidney disease in 2023—she hasn’t returned to the gym since leaving Paris, and she still isn’t sure if LA 2028 is on the horizon.

“I haven’t done any gymnastics since the Olympics,” Suni, 22, admitted to E! “So, I’m still trying to figure out if I want to go back, if I don’t want to go back. I don’t know yet.”

As she put, “Right now, I’m just trying to live my life.”

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And despite her scoring controversy, Jordan has said that she still sees her Paris 2024 performance as a bronze medal-earning experience, previously telling E! News, “I'm always going to fight and be my best self because that's just who I am."

For more athletes who attended the 2025 ESPY Awards, keep reading… 

—Reporting by Sharon Carpenter

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