Ana Barbosu is reacting to the shocking news of Jordan Chiles being stripped of her bronze medal, which will instead be going to Ana.
After the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) confirmation of the plan to award the 18-year-old gymnast the bronze medal after stripping the 23-year-old Team USA gymnast of the honor, the Romanian athlete spoke out on her Instagram.
“Sabrina [Voinea], Jordan, my thoughts are with you. I know what you are feeling because I’ve been through the same,” she wrote via Instagram Story. “But I know you’ll come back stronger.”
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“I hope from deep of my heart that at the next Olympics, all three of us will share the same podium. This is my true dream,” she continued.
She added that “this situation” wouldn’t exist if “the persons in charge had respected the regulation.”
“We athletes are not to be blamed and the hate directed to us is painful,” she concluded. “I wanted to end this edition of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 in the spirit of Olympism, the true value of the world.”
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