American gymnast Jordan Chiles has been granted an appeal in her efforts to reclaim the bronze medal on floor exercise that was stripped from her at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Switzerland’s supreme court said on Thursday its judges sent the “highly exceptional circumstances” of the bronze medal awarded in the women’s floor exercise back to the Court of Arbitration for Sport to examine new evidence.

The outcome of an event that created a celebrated Olympic photo featuring Chiles, floor exercise silver medalist Simone Biles and gold medalist Rebeca Andrade of Brazil — all women of color — rests on just a handful of seconds: Can the U.S. team prove it made a timely appeal in the Olympic arena on behalf of Chiles?

The ruling from Switzerland’s federal judges — highly unusual in cases of this nature — suggested Chiles could regain the bronze medal she originally got in Paris after challenging her judged score.

Chiles’ third-place finish was overturned within days on appeal by the Romanian team to the CAS’ Olympic court in Paris. The medal was awarded in Bucharest the next week to Ana Maria Barbosu.

Chiles said at the time that the decision felt “unjust and comes as a significant blow, not just to me, but to everyone who has championed my journey.”   

The federal court wants CAS to examine a recording that could show the original U.S. challenge of the judged score was within a one-minute deadline on the field of play.

“In the highly exceptional circumstances of the case in question,” the Swiss Federal Tribunal said in a statement, “it considers that there is a likelihood for the audio-visual recording of the final on Aug. 5, 2024 to lead to a modification of the contested award in favor of the applicant (Chiles).”

The CAS said in a statement Thursday it “can now ensure a thorough judicial review of the new evidence that has since been made available.”

Both CAS and Switzerland’s supreme court are based in Lausanne, which is considered the Olympic Capital, gave no timetable for the review. It likely will take at least one year to prepare and process before a verdict is ready.

Still, the federal court’s decision has given Chiles renewed hope of keeping her medal and putting the controversy behind her.

“We are delighted that the Swiss Federal Supreme Court has righted a wrong and given Jordan the chance she deserves to reclaim her bronze medal,” Maurice M. Suh, part of the legal team representing Chiles, said in a statement. “As the Court recognized, there is ‘conclusive’ video evidence that Jordan was the rightful winner of the bronze medal.”

Suh added that Chiles will “fight vigorously” and is grateful to have a “full and fair opportunity to defend her bronze medal.”

USA Gymnastics praised the court for recognizing “the flaws in the initial process and that Jordan’s case can now be heard inclusive of all relevant evidence.”

“USA Gymnastics will continue to support the efforts of Jordan and her team to retain her bronze medal in the 2024 Olympic women’s floor exercise,” USA Gymnastics said in a statement. “We look forward to a fair arbitration that includes the clear evidence proving the inquiry into Jordan’s score was filed well within 1 minute as required by FIG rules.”

Chiles, now 24, has pressed forward with her life after dealing with significant online backlash — some of it racially tinged — in the immediate aftermath.

She returned to compete collegiately at UCLA while also leaning into her burgeoning celebrity, participating on the reality competition “Dancing With the Stars,” posing for the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, and is currently featured in a commercial for a female athleisure apparel line that also includes tennis icon Serena Williams and track star Sha’Carri Richardson.

MEXICO CITY — MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum reiterated that operations on Mexican soil are always carried out by Mexican forces, in her latest attempt to assuage concerns of U.S. encroachment on Mexican sovereignty.

The comments made at her daily press conference Thursday come after questions surrounding the case of a former Olympic snowboarder accused of drug trafficking, who was recently sent to the U.S. to face charges.

Sheinbaum and U.S. Ambassador Ronald Johnson have insisted that Canadian Ryan Wedding, who was in hiding in Mexico, turned himself in at the U.S. embassy last week, something his lawyer denies.

That account was contradicted by FBI Director Kash Patel, who said the fugitive accused of moving drugs into the U.S. was captured in a “high-risk” joint operation carried out “hand-in-hand” and “on the ground” with Mexican forces.

On Thursday, Sheinbaum spoke with Trump by phone, part of the two leaders’ continuing dialogue on trade and security, but they did not speak of Wedding’s arrest, she said.

Sheinbaum acknowledged earlier this week that she did not know the details of the arrest and did not want to argue with Patel.

But she addressed the ongoing concerns of U.S. intervention in Mexico.

“We will never accept joint operations by the United States … operations on our territory are carried out by Mexican forces … we always tell President Trump that,” she insisted Thursday after the call.

Instead, Sheinbaum said the leaders spoke about drug trafficking, the border and trade, coming as the Mexican president has sought to defuse mounting threats by Trump of taking military action against cartels.

The controversy surrounding Wedding’s arrest has resurfaced anxieties around how U.S. agencies operate on Mexican territory, especially in the wake of the U.S. military operation in Venezuela earlier this month, which deposed former President Nicolás Maduro. Since, Trump has repeatedly underscored his desire to fight cartels on land, an escalation from the boat attacks carried out in the Caribbean and the Pacific.

Sheinbaum has repeatedly said she would not allow unilateral U.S. military intervention in the country over concerns for Mexican sovereignty but has promoted bilateral cooperation between the two neighbors.

The Mexican president said that in this latest conversation Trump did not press for any operations in Mexico, but that they did discuss Mexico’s most recent transfer of dozens of imprisoned cartel members to the U.S., which observers have described as an offering by Sheinbaum’s government.

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