Gymnast at center of Jordan Chiles Olympic medal controversy is suspended for missing drug test

Romanian gymnastics prima Ana Barbosu has been provisionally suspended from her athletics aft missing 3 cause tests, the International Testing Agency (ITA) announced connected Thursday.

Ana Barbosu, 19, committed "three whereabouts failures wrong a 12-month period," the announcement said.

She volition beryllium taking the lawsuit to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), and she addressed the concern connected societal media.

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Ana Barbosu of Romania competes successful the women's level workout last astatine the Olympic Games Paris 2024 astatine Bercy Arena successful Paris, France, connected Aug. 5, 2024. (Daniela Porcelli/Eurasia Sport Images/Getty Images)

"I wanted to stock and clarify immoderate accusation that has been circulating," was posted connected Barbosu’s Instagram communicative aft the ITA announcement.

"As you tin imagine, moving to the US and starting assemblage (at Stanford wrong the past year) has been a large transition. Navigating done each the changes has been challenging, and I’m continuing to larn and turn done each experience. To beryllium clear, this concern has thing to bash with prohibited substances, and I person been grateful for the guidance and enactment passim the process."

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Ana Maris Barbosu and Jordan Chiles are pictured together. (Getty Images)

Barabosu was awarded the bronze medal successful level workout astatine the 2024 Paris Olympics, aft a highly arguable bid of people changes and appeals.

Bărbosu believed she had won the medal aft Chiles' archetypal people was announced. But past a U.S. manager made an appeal, and Barbosu was holding a Romanian emblem erstwhile she looked up and saw the scoring alteration that enactment Chiles ahead.

But past CAS ruled that the judging sheet astatine the lawsuit had improperly granted an enquiry that accrued Chiles' score. It ruled that the entreaty had been submitted past the one-minute deadline for inquiries and should not person been granted.

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Ana Barbosu of Romania walks into the arena earlier the level last connected time 10 of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 astatine Bercy Arena successful Paris, France, connected Aug. 5, 2024. (Naomi Baker/Getty Images)

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) aboriginal determined Chiles had to instrumentality the bronze medal she won successful the Paris Olympics level workout aft her people was improperly judged.

Chiles and Team USA person been appealing the determination ever since.

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