Gymnast Jordan Chiles refusing to return medal IOC retroactively stripped

For those of you who need a recap of this story. Jordan Chiles won bronze in the individual floor routine after an appeal by Team USA was accepted by the judges, awarding her extra points for the difficulty of her routine. That moved her from fifth place, behind Romanian gymnasts Sabrina Maneca-Voinea and Ana Barbosu, to third place and the bronze position. However, after the medal ceremony, the Romanians appealed the decision by the judges and was able to get the finish reversed. It turns out Team USA submitted their appeal five seconds after the allotted time to appeal of 60 seconds had come to an end. So Barbosu was given the bronze and Chiles was ordered by the IOC to give back her medal. However, a further plot twist emerged when Team USA attempted to appeal the revised finish, arguing they had timestamped evidence that they had indeed submitted their appeal on time. However, the arbitration board refused to see this new evidence, arguing their ruling was final.

Now Chiles is refusing to return the bronze medal to the IOC.

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In other words, this is a total shite show. For one thing...that medal should not belong to Chiles or Barbosu, it should belong to fifth place finisher, Sabrina Maneca-Voinea. She scored as low as she did because the judges ruled she had stepped out of bounds during her routine. However, instant replay clearly shows she did not step out of bounds. You can't appeal that, however, so she loses no matter what.

The judges really failed in this event.