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Posted: 2024-08-26T21:22:00Z | Updated: 2024-08-26T21:22:51Z

Olympian Simone Biles is making sure she has Jordan Chiles back as her USA Gymnastics teammate fights to get her bronze medal back.

Biles, who has seven gold medals, said shes been doing everything she can to support Chiles while she deals with the fallout from being stripped of her third-place win at the Paris Olympics earlier this month.

Weve been FaceTiming, texting, just being girls, Biles told People in an interview published Monday. I did talk to her on one of the days, and I was like, You know what, Jordan, you have to feel all these feels. Dont let these emotions stop you. This will be the healthiest way to get all of this out.

Chiles initially finished fifth in the floor finals in Paris but was bumped to bronze after her coach, Cecile Landi, appealed her score to officials, arguing Chiles score did not accurately calculate her routines difficulty rating.

But afterward, two Romanian gymnasts petitioned to have Landis appeal overturned, arguing that the coachs request came four seconds past the deadline for score adjustments.

USA Gymnastics officials later revealed that the body which oversaw the appeal, the Court of Arbitration for Sport, was refusing to reconsider its decision to rescind Chiles medal despite evidence that called the timing into question.