Gymnast Ana Bărbosu received her bronze medal in a ceremony in Romania on Friday following a controversial ruling that stripped America’s Jordan Chiles of the medal.

The Romanian Olympic and Sports Committee hosted the ceremony in Bucharest, Romania’s capital, for Bărbosu, who received her medal, an Olympic poster and a mascot like other medal recipients in Paris. Romania’s prime minister Marcel Ciolacu presented her with a floral bouquet before Bărbosu spoke.

She said the Olympic spirit is more important than misunderstandings and, “I want to believe that the day will come when all three of us (Bărbosu, Chiles and follow Romanian gymnast Sabrina Maneca-Voinea) will receive a bronze medal.”

The controversy stems from the women’s gymnastics floor final inside Paris’ Bercy Arena on Aug. 5. Chiles, the last of the nine gymnasts to perform, received an initial score of 13.666, placing her fifth behind Brazil’s Rebeca Andrade (gold medalist), America’s Simone Biles (silver medalist) and Romania’s Bărbosu and Sabrina Maneca-Voinea, who each scored a 13.700. (Bărbosu was ahead of Maneca-Voinea for having a higher execution score, meaning the judges thought she hit a cleaner routine.)

Following Chiles’ routine, her coach Cecile Landi submitted an inquiry, which the judges accepted and thus raised Chiles’ score to 13.766, bumping her into the bronze position. The Romanian Gymnastics Federation filed an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport challenging the timeliness of Chiles’ inquiry, saying it was submitted four seconds after the allotted one-minute mark. (Gymnasts before Chiles had from the time their score appeared on the board to the start of the next gymnast’s routine — typically a few minutes — to file an inquiry. But with Chiles being the last gymnast to perform, the rule granted USA Gymnastics just one minute to submit an inquiry.)

CAS agreed that Chiles’ inquiry was raised late and her initial score of 13.666 should be reinstated. However, in its full report released last week, CAS also said it would grant Chiles, Bărbosu and Maneca-Voinea all bronze medals if it were up to the court, as it said the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) did not track the timing of the inquiry or have any guidelines in place to assure proper protocol was followed.

“If the Panel had been in a position to apply equitable principles, it would surely have attributed a bronze medal to all three gymnasts in view of their performance, good faith and the injustice and pain to which they have been subjected, in circumstances in which the FIG did not provide a mechanism or arrangement to implement the one minute rule,” the court said.

The FIG altered the results to reflect the CAS ruling and gave the IOC the final call on who would be awarded the bronze. In response, the IOC said it would not award more than one bronze medal, deciding to reallocate the bronze to Bărbosu and that it was in contact with the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee about the return of Chiles’ bronze medal.

“I have no words,” Chiles said on X in response to being stripped of her medal. “This decision feels unjust and comes as a significant blow, not just to me, but to everyone who has championed my journey.”

She added: “I am now confronted with one of the most challenging moments of my career. … I will approach this challenge as I have others — and will make every effort to ensure that justice is done.”

In its report, CAS squarely blamed FIG for the problems that arose during one of the most dramatic moments of the Paris Olympics. The panel said it was limited in its review, leading to heartbreak for the athletes.

CAS denied USA Gymnastics the chance to give new evidence, which USA Gymnastics said proves the inquiry was submitted 47 seconds after Chiles’ score was shown and thus is a legal inquiry. USA Gymnastics promised yet another appeal to the Swiss Federal Tribunal, the body that gives CAS its legitimacy for arbitrations. Successful appeals to the Swiss tribunal are uncommon.

Still, Chiles is holding out hope that her bronze stays hers.

“I believe that at the end of this journey, the people in control will do the right thing,” she said.