The court docket of arbitration for sport has voided the inquiry that led to Olympic bronze on the ground train for the American gymnast Jordan Chiles, with the Worldwide Gymnastics Federation (FIG) confirming Romania’s Ana Barbosu will now change Chiles as bronze medalist.

CAS dominated on Saturday that the enchantment by US coach Cecile Landi to have 0.1 added to Chiles’ rating that vaulted her from fifth to 3rd got here outdoors the one-minute window allowed by the Worldwide Gymnastics Federation (FIG) by 4 seconds. The preliminary ending order will now be restored, with Barbosu third, her teammate Sabrina Maneca-Voinea fourth and Chiles fifth.

Chiles responded to the choice with two posts on social media. She initially posted 4 heartbreak emojis on a black background to her Instagram tales. Her second put up learn: “I’m taking this time and eradicating myself from social media for my psychological well being. Thanks.”

USA Gymnastics and the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee issued a joint assertion within the wake of the Cas ruling. “The inquiry into the issue worth of Jordan Chiles’ flooring train routine was filed in good religion and, we believed, in accordance with FIG guidelines to make sure correct scoring,” they stated.

“All through the enchantment course of, Jordan has been topic to constant, completely baseless and very hurtful assaults on social media. No athlete must be topic to such remedy. We condemn the assaults and people who interact, help or instigate them. We commend Jordan for conducting herself with integrity each on and off the competitors flooring, and we proceed to face by and help her.”

Barbosu and Maneca-Voinea have been initially left outdoors the medals within the flooring remaining in Paris after ending with matching scores of 13.700. Barbosu thought she had gained bronze over Maneca-Voinea by way of a tiebreaker – the next execution rating – and started celebrating with a Romanian flag.

Chiles was the final athlete to compete and initially was given a rating of 13.666 that put her in fifth, proper behind Maneca-Voinea. Landi known as for an inquiry on her rating, and after a evaluation, judges boosted Chiles’ complete by 0.1. That was sufficient to leapfrog Barbosu and Maneca-Voinea for the final spot on the rostrum.

The FIG spokesperson Meike Behrensen stated in an e-mail to the Related Press that “reallocation of medals is the duty of the IOC”. The Romanian gymnastics federation has requested for 3 bronze medals to be awarded. The Romanian prime minister, Marcel Ciolacu, reacted to the ruling by saying “justice has been served” and that “ultimately, the reality prevailed”.

The ruling provides one other layer to what has been a tough few days for all three athletes. Nadia Comaneci, the 1976 Olympic champion and a Romanian gymnastics legend, feared for Barbosu’s psychological well being due to the wrenching sequence during which she went from bronze medalist to fourth-place finisher.

“I can’t consider we play with athletes psychological well being and feelings like this… let’s defend them,” Comaneci posted on X earlier within the week.

Comaneci, on the identical time, criticized the judges for the way in which they scored Maneca-Voinea’s routine – the gymnast was docked 0.1 factors for stepping out of bounds, however viral replays confirmed she narrowly stayed inbounds. Comaneci urged the Romanian Olympic Committee to protest, which it did, however Cas denied that enchantment.

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Barbosu made it a degree after returning residence to Romania that she had no drawback with Chiles.

“I solely need for everyone to be honest, we don’t wish to begin selecting on different athletes of any nationality,” Barbosu informed reporters. “We as athletes don’t deserve one thing like that, we solely wish to carry out as finest as we will and to be rewarded based mostly on our efficiency. The issues lie with the judges, with their calculations and choices.”

The uncertainty has tinged what had been a fantastic second on the medal podium, when Chiles and Simone Biles knelt to honour Rebeca Andrade after the Brazilian star gained her fourth medal in Paris.

“It was simply the suitable factor to do,” Biles stated a few second that quickly went viral, with even the Louvre itself suggesting it is likely to be worthy sufficient for a spot someplace within the neighborhood of the Mona Lisa.

That reminiscence now carries a sophisticated and emotional postscript.

US gymnast Jordan Chiles should return the bronze medal she received within the flooring train after a court docket ruling determined her rating had been improperly judged, though the USA have confirmed they’ll attraction.

The Court docket of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) voided an attraction made by Workforce USA coach Cecile Landi in the course of the competitors that noticed Chiles’ rating enhance by 0.1 and shifting her from fifth to 3rd securing her a bronze medal.

The CAS ruling on Saturday stated that that the on flooring attraction by Landi got here exterior the 1-minute window allowed by the Worldwide Gymnastics Federation (FIG). The committee wrote that the enquiry got here 1 minute 4 seconds after the rating was posted which means it didn’t meet the specified standards for an attraction.

CAS dominated that the preliminary ending order ought to be restored with Romania’s Ana Barbosu and Sabrina Maneca-Voinea ending third and fourth respectively with Chiles again right down to fifth.

They left the ultimate rating choice to the FIG who decided it was as much as the Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC) to determine on probably reallocating the bronze medal.

On Sunday the IOC confirmed the choice to strip Chiles of the medal and provides it to Barbosu who was in third place earlier than Chiles’ rating was upgraded.

In a press release, the IOC stated: “The IOC will reallocate the bronze medal to Ana Barbosu (Romania). We’re in contact with the NOC of Romania to debate the reallocation ceremony and with USOPC concerning the return of the bronze medal.”

Chiles took to instagram on Saturday following the CAS ruling saying she is “taking this time and eradicating myself from social media for my psychological well being, thanks.”

USA Gymnastics launched a press release saying it was devastated by the ruling. They wrote: “The inquiry into the Issue Worth of Jordan Chiles’ flooring train routine was filed in good religion and, we believed, in accordance with FIG guidelines to make sure correct scoring.”

In the meantime, Chiles’ gymnastics teammate Simone Biles added: “Sending you a lot love Jordan. Hold your chin up ‘Olympic champ’ we love you.”

Moreover the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee launched a press release comfirming that they might attraction in opposition to the choice.

It learn: “The US Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) might be interesting the current choice made by the Court docket of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) concerning Jordan Chiles.

“We firmly imagine that Jordan rightfully earned the bronze medal, and there have been vital errors in each the preliminary scoring by the Worldwide Gymnastics Federation (FIG) and the following CAS attraction course of that have to be addressed.

“The preliminary error occurred within the scoring by FIG, and the second error was in the course of the CAS attraction course of, the place the USOPC was not given satisfactory time or discover to successfully problem the choice. Because of this, we weren’t correctly represented or afforded the chance to current the case comprehensively.

“Given these circumstances, we’re dedicated to pursuing an attraction to make sure that Jordan Chiles receives the popularity she deserves. We stay devoted to supporting her as an Olympic champion and can contonue to work diligently to resolve this matter swiftly and pretty.”

The 2 potential locations the USOPC may take the attraction can be to Switzerland’s highest court docket, the Swiss Tribunal, or the European Court docket of Human Rights.

He was the final one coming off the courtroom Thursday, and Joel Embiid made positive these inside Bercy Area had been conscious he was nonetheless there. 

After the USA pulled off its dramatic, comeback win over Serbia within the 2024 Paris Olympics males’s basketball semifinals, establishing an Olympic closing in opposition to France Saturday, Embiid celebrated by embracing the controversy his presence on the American roster created for these Video games. 

The Philadelphia 76ers star approached middle courtroom dancing to the beat of the music enjoying over the constructing’s loudspeakers. Upon seeing teammate Anthony Edwards, Embiid then made a gesture meant to taunt the gang. The boos which have adopted Embiid all through the Olympic event intensified. He’s getting ready for them to achieve a crescendo when Group USA performs France in entrance of its dwelling followers with a gold medal on the road in males’s basketball.    

As a result of Embiid could possibly be  – and within the minds of many French folks, ought to be – enjoying for France.

This is what it is best to know concerning the feud between Embiid and France and why the previous NBA MVP grew to become the heel French crowds like to boo on the Paris Video games:

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The place is Joel Embiid from?

Embiid was born in Yaounde, Cameroon on March 16, 1994. He didn’t begin enjoying basketball till he was 15 years outdated. He moved to the USA a yr later after NBA participant and fellow Cameroon native Luc Mbah A Moute observed him at a basketball camp in Africa.

Embiid has performed within the states ever since then, rising as a five-star recruit at The Rock Faculty in Gainesville, Florida, per his 247Sports Composite profile. He then performed one season at Kansas. Embiid was chosen by the 76ers with the No. 3 total decide within the 2014 NBA draft and has performed in Philadelphia throughout his total skilled profession.

Is Joel Embiid a U.S. citizen?

Sure, however not earlier than changing into a citizen in two different international locations.

Embiid additionally had the chance to play for France or Cameroon within the Olympics. He gained citizenship to France in Might 2022 by way of a clause there that enables naturalization to a foreigner whose naturalization is “of remarkable curiosity.” Embiid then revealed in September 2022 that he had additionally develop into a United States citizen, and cited his son because the motivation.

Why Joel Embiied is being booed at 2024 Paris Olympics

Embiid’s determination to play for the USA on the Paris Olympics was a sore topic in France lengthy earlier than the Video games started.

When Embiid was granted French citizenship, hypothesis instantly adopted he was planning to signify France two years later when it hosted the Olympics. There was the potential to workforce with Victor Wembanyama and Rudy Gobert. Embiid has stated there was by no means an settlement that he would play for France in change for gaining citizenship, however did reveal just lately that French president Emmanuel Macron tried to recruit him.

Former NBA participant Boris Diaw, who presently serves as the overall supervisor of the French nationwide workforce in males’s basketball, insisted to The Athletic that Embiid approached a number of instances through the 2021-22 NBA season about his curiosity in enjoying for France. When France beat the USA 83-76 through the 2020 Olympics, snapping Group USA’s 25-game successful streak in Olympic competitors, Embiid even tweeted, “Allez les Bleus” in celebration.

“Joel got here to us and stated that he wished to play worldwide basketball, he stated he wished to win, and he stated he wished to play for France and he wished to win with France,” Diaw advised The Athletic. “So we listened to him.”

This led French officers to bypass the standard routes to achieve citizenship. Embiid didn’t have direct French heritage, nor had he lived in France for at the least two years. However he and his son had been granted a French passport due to what France may accomplish on the Olympics with him.

A yr later, when Embiid introduced he had dedicated to play for Group USA in Paris, he stated his household’s connection to the USA was the figuring out issue.

“It was not simple,” Embiid wrote in a submit on X (previously Twitter) explaining his determination in October 2023. “I’m blessed to name Cameroon, France, and the USA dwelling. “After speaking to my household, I knew it needed to be Group USA. I wish to play with my brothers within the league. I wish to play for my followers as a result of they’ve been unbelievable because the day I got here right here. However most of all, I wish to honor my son who was born within the US. I need my boy to know I performed my first Olympics for him.”

Embiid’s option to play for the USA was not met kindly by the French. 

“Group USA, with him, who can beat you? Come on, no one,” French Basketball Federation president Jean-Pierre Siutat advised The Athletic. “That is a straightforward approach for him to get an Olympic medal.”

Frederic Weis — the previous French nationwide participant who infamously acquired dunked on by Vince Carter through the 2000 Olympics — took it much more personally.

“I hate him for the issues that he did. I feel he does not have any respect for France and in addition for all of the people who find themselves asking for a French passport and do not get it. And below the pretext that he’s an awesome athlete, he acquired it,” Weis stated in April, by way of Eurohoops.internet. “I discover it scandalous, I discover it embarrassing. I do not care about his excuses, as a result of they’re his phrases, and his phrases imply nothing.

“I might take away from him the French nationality and I might ban him from coming into France,” Weis added. “You’ll not play within the Olympics. You’ll come to the airport with Group USA and we’ll say, ‘You do not have the appropriate to enter the territory, go to your property. You’re Cameroonian, you might be American, you aren’t French, go away.'”

Because the Olympics started, Embiid has been booed persistently by the followers — when he is in pregame warmups, when he is launched and when he is touched the ball throughout video games — in each Lille, France for the group stage, in addition to in Paris throughout Group USA’s wins over Brazil and Serbia to achieve Saturday’s gold medal recreation in opposition to France.

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What Joel Embiid stated on the Paris Olympics

Embiid’s response to the controversy has diverse.

Throughout the 2024 Paris Olympics opening ceremony, Group USA teammate Tyrese Haliburton jokingly introduced up the controversy in a video posted on his Instagram account.

“Give your passport again,” Haliburton stated.

“I am American, man,” Embiid responded, waving a miniature American flag from the boat carrying the USA delegation of athletes alongside the Seine River through the parade of countries.

Embiid stated final week when the subject got here up once more that he picked the USA as a result of he felt extra snug with the People and, “these guys wished me.”

“Lots of people see (the boos) as hate, I see it as love and respect,” he advised reporters in Paris final week. “If I wasn’t an OK basketball participant, I might not obtain that kind of remedy. So I see myself as being blessed and that’s how I work together with that kind of crowd and that kind of stuff. I’m blessed to be right here. I’ve seen worse. I’ve performed in worse environments.”

“Taking part in in Philly, they boo their very own guys greater than opponents,” Embiid added. “Generally it appears like our followers are extra in opposition to us once they’re presupposed to be in opposition to the opponent. However like I stated, it’s all love. It’s all as a result of they wish to push you, need you to do higher. Similar to with this crowd, it makes me wish to be higher and do extra and do no matter it takes to win.”

Embiid prompt Friday that he would have performed for Cameroon if his native nation had certified for these Olympics, and that he would think about doing so sooner or later. However since Embiid has performed for the USA in a world competitors, he would wish a waiver from FIBA and USA Basketball to play for an additional nation on the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.

For now, he is able to play the position of villain as soon as extra in entrance of what is anticipated to be one other raucous French crowd.

“I do know myself. I’m going to work together myself and I’m going to take pleasure in it,” Embiid stated Friday. “They’re going to boo me. I’m going to return at them … and so it’s going to be enjoyable.”

What Group USA is saying about Joel Embiid boos

“That’s all you are able to do is chortle about it,” Group USA coach Steve Kerr advised reporters in Paris, in accordance with the Related Press. “He’s finished a superb job simply making mild of it. And his teammates clearly have his again. It’s all a part of it. I’m positive he knew this was coming. And what I like is that after the French followers would boo, you could possibly hear the American followers cheer. So, everyone appears to be having some enjoyable with it.”

“It’s OK. He’s with us. Be mad. We don’t care,” U.S. guard Anthony Edwards stated. “He selected us over y’all, so it’s all good.”

Joel Embiid Olympic stats

Embiid lastly got here by way of for Group USA with 19 essential factors in opposition to Serbia within the semifinals after an in any other case underwhelming efficiency. Charles Barkley accused him of being out of form throughout an look on Paul George’s podcast. He’s averaging 13 factors and 4 rebounds over 5 video games in Paris.  

How you can watch USA vs. France in Paris Olympics gold medal recreation

• Date: Aug. 10, 2024
• Time: 3:30 p.m. ET
• Location: Accor Area, Paris
• TV: NBC
• Streaming: Peacock, nbcolympics.com, fuboTV

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Susan Wojcicki, the previous boss of YouTube and one among Google’s earliest workers, has died aged 56.

Google’s chief government Sundar Pichai introduced that Ms Wojcicki had handed away after two years of dwelling with lung most cancers.

Mr Pichai, who can also be the boss of Google’s dad or mum firm Alphabet, mentioned on X/Twitter he was “unbelievably saddened” and Ms Wojcicki was “as core to the historical past of Google as anybody”.

As soon as described because the “most vital Googler you have by no means heard of”, Ms Wojcicki was current on the firm’s beginnings when, in 1998, she rented out her Menlo Park storage to the search engine agency’s founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Web page.

She was later persuaded to go away her job at chip large Intel to hitch Google, changing into the agency’s sixteenth worker.

Ms Wojcicki would go on to steer YouTube, the net video sharing firm owned by Google, for 9 years till 2023 when she stepped all the way down to focus “on my household, well being and private initiatives I am obsessed with”.

Ms Wojcicki was one among comparatively few ladies to carry a senior function within the expertise business.

She needed to encourage extra women to enter the sector, telling the BBC’s Newshour in 2013 that the long run was going to be “more and more digitally influenced”.

“However then I see there are only a few ladies within the business,” she mentioned. “General the tech business has, on common, in all probability about 20% ladies and I additionally take a look at the pipeline of ladies popping out of technical levels and it is vitally small.”

Whereas Ms Wojcicki rose to change into the boss of YouTube, her tenure was not with out controversy. The platform confronted criticism over its dealing with of on-line disinformation, together with through the Covid pandemic.

In 2022, plenty of fact-checking organisations wrote to her accusing YouTube of being “one of many main conduits of on-line disinformation and misinformation worldwide”.

Ms Wojcicki stepped down a yr later to give attention to her private life and well being.

Saying her demise “with profound disappointment”, her husband Dennis Troper mentioned: “My beloved spouse of 26 years and mom to our 5 kids left us in the present day after two years of dwelling with non-small-cell lung most cancers.”

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Susan Wojcicki, one in all Google’s earliest staff and the previous chief government of its video web site YouTube, has died aged 56.

Within the male-dominated tech business, Wojcicki grew to become one in all Silicon Valley’s most influential girls, serving to to create Google’s all-conquering promoting enterprise.

Her husband Dennis Troper introduced her demise on Fb. “It’s with profound unhappiness that I share the information of Susan Wojcicki passing,” he mentioned. “My beloved spouse of 26 years and mom to our 5 kids left us at the moment after two years of dwelling with non-small cell lung most cancers.”

He referred to as her “an excellent thoughts, a loving mom, and an expensive buddy to many”.

Sundar Pichai, chief government of Google mother or father Alphabet, mentioned in a submit on X that he was “unbelievably saddened”.

“She is as core to the historical past of Google as anybody, and it’s exhausting to think about the world with out her,” he mentioned. “She was an unbelievable individual, chief and buddy who had an amazing affect on the world.”

In a notice to Google staffers, Pichai mentioned Wojcicki “used her place to construct a greater office for everybody”, together with being the primary girl at Google to take maternity go away. “Her advocacy round parental go away set a brand new commonplace for companies in all places,” he wrote.

Tim Cook dinner, Apple chief government, mentioned in a submit on X that he was “saddened” to listen to of Wojcicki’s demise. “She was one in all Silicon Valley’s visionaries and she or he will probably be missed by so many,” he mentioned.

Throughout Google’s earliest days, its founders Larry Web page and Sergey Brin constructed the search engine whereas working in Wojcicki’s storage at her residence in Menlo Park. In 1999, she grew to become its sixteenth worker. Throughout her tenure overseeing its promoting enterprise, Google’s advert revenues grew from zero to greater than $50bn in 2013.

After being concerned in Google’s $1.65bn acquisition of YouTube in 2006, she grew to become the video website’s chief government in 2014. By the point she stepped down in February final 12 months, YouTube had grown to greater than 2.5bn month-to-month energetic customers and almost $30bn in annual advert revenues.

“Susan was a trailblazer within the business, an exemplary mom, and a cherished buddy,” mentioned Marc Benioff, chief government of Salesforce.com, the place she was a board member.

Throughout greater than 20 years at Google, Wojcicki wore “many hats”, as she put it when she left — together with serving to to create Google Picture Search and its AdSense promoting community earlier than turning into its senior vice-president of promoting and commerce.

At YouTube, she nurtured the event of the “creator economic system”, whereas additionally warding off controversies over its content material moderation and video-recommendation algorithm.

In an inner memo asserting her departure final 12 months, she wrote: “25 years in the past I made the choice to affix a few Stanford graduate college students who have been constructing a brand new search engine . . . I noticed the potential of what they have been constructing, which was extremely thrilling, and though the corporate had just a few customers and no income, I made a decision to affix the crew. It will be probably the greatest choices of my life.”

Particulars of her well being weren’t extensively identified. Simply final month, she joined the board of administrators at Planet Labs, a satellite tv for pc imaging and knowledge firm.

Earlier than Google, Wojcicki labored at chipmaker Intel and as a administration advisor. Her mom Esther Wojcicki is a journalist and her father Stanley Wojcicki, a famend Stanford physics professor, died final 12 months.

She has two sisters: Anne Wojcicki, the co-founder and chief government of biotech firm 23andMe, who was married to Brin till 2015, and Janet Wojcicki, a professor of paediatrics on the College of California, San Francisco.

Tragedy hit the household earlier this 12 months when Wojcicki’s 19-year-old son Marco Troper died. He was a scholar on the College of California, Berkeley.

Philadelphia 76ers star Joel Embiid is a gold medalist. Because the beginning middle for Workforce USA, he helped the People earn a 98-87 win over France on Saturday afternoon for the staff’s fifth straight gold medal. Embiid solely had 4 factors, three rebounds, and two assists, however the massive fella performed a task.

Embiid was in a position to make defensive stops on French famous person Victor Wembanyama with the gold medal on the road and made positive he was there to make massive stops on the defensive finish. One has to offer credit score to Los Angeles Lakers star Anthony Davis for the defensive performs he made–four blocks–but Embiid deserves a ton of credit score for his work on that finish of the ground towards each Wemby and Rudy Gobert.

Afterward, NBA Twitter gave its finest reactions to the chief of the Sixers profitable his first gold medal and getting the job completed for Workforce USA:

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Farewell to fashionable pentathlon on this type. The ultimate day of the occasion in Versailles supplied a glimpse of the difficulties related to randomly pairing horses with people.

Staff GB’s Kerenza Bryson was getting ready for her showjumping spherical as France’s Marie Oteiza was thrown from her horse. The animal had appeared stressed from the outset. There was no lasting harm – apart to Oteiza’s medal hopes – however Bryson took observe.

“I’m going to the barrier and like to look at the rider earlier than me undergo the entire spherical,” Bryson stated. “I visualise that I’m on that horse as a psychology train.

“She fell off on the first fence. It might have thrown folks however I took a deep breath. I used to be involved the horse may need seen it as a result of horses undoubtedly discover issues like that, it does have an effect on their confidence. You might have by no means met that horse earlier than, you solely have 20 minutes to get to comprehend it. You need to create a partnership and a bond with that horse.”

Not. Horses might be faraway from fashionable pentathlon completely by the point the Los Angeles Olympics comes round in 2028. Impediment course operating takes the place of showjumping. “It’s a huge disgrace as a result of using is generally my sturdy level,” Bryson stated. “I come from a pony membership and using background.”

The change, accelerated after a German coach struck a horse within the Tokyo Olympics, usually appears to have angered rivals. The idea of a contemporary fashionable pentathlon is to not many individuals’s liking.

Bryson minimize a dejected determine after her ninth-placed end right here however can see an even bigger image. She’s going to start work as a junior physician in Bathtub later this 12 months and can also be a military reservist.

“I’m actually dissatisfied with my efficiency. I got here right here to try to win a medal. With pentathlon and pulling 5 issues collectively in the identical day, there may be at all times a component of luck. I’m additionally attempting to be actually optimistic and bear in mind I’m an Olympian. I’ve different issues happening and typically it’s important to bear in mind there may be extra to life than sport and medals.

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“I’m going to have a vacation, decompress, then have a take into consideration the subsequent cycle. Not getting a medal right here has made me hungry for an additional Olympic Video games.”

Michelle Gulyas took gold for Hungary with a world report factors haul of 1,461. France’s Élodie Clouvel received silver, with bronze going to Seong Seung-min of South Korea.

Staff GB’s reigning Olympic champion, Kate French, had withdrawn resulting from sickness earlier than the beginning of the ultimate. French’s substitute, Annika Zillekens of Germany, took a name from her coach shortly after 9am on Sunday. She had been collaborating in an 8km run across the Olympic village earlier than studying she can be handed a late closing berth. There was no scope for a heat‑up by the point the reached Versailles. Maybe unsurprisingly, Zillekens completed fifteenth.

The trendy pentathlon occasions ended at Paris 2024 with victory for Hungary’s Michelle Gulyas on the Château de Versailles. Gulyas delivered a record-breaking efficiency, amassing 1,461 factors to set a brand new world document.

France’s Elodie Clouvel gained her second Olympic silver within the occasion (having completed second at Rio 2016) and have become the primary French athlete to win two Olympic medals within the sport.

Bronze went to Seong Seungmin of the Republic of Korea, the primary girl from her nation to win an Olympic medal within the sport.

Gulyas, 24, was an image of focus throughout the 5 disciplines, particularly within the closing laser run, the place the stakes had been highest. Competing in entrance of round 15,000 followers, she maintained her composure and executed her technique with precision.

“It was robust,” Gulyas admitted, reflecting on the race, “however I knew what I needed to do, and I stayed centered on my capturing.”

“You all the time need assistance to win this stuff, and you must all the time ask for assist even if you’re very sturdy and difficult as a result of that is what I’ve felt in the course of the years, and nonetheless, I’m right here with an Olympic medal,” she added.

For France’s Clouvel, the silver medal was a bittersweet near-miss. Getting into the laser run with a 13-second benefit, Clouvel was poised to take the gold in entrance of her residence crowd. Nonetheless, a collection of misses on the capturing stations noticed her benefit dwindle, leaving her to accept silver with 1,452 factors — 9 factors shy of Gulyas.

Clouvel remained gracious, acknowledging her Hungarian rival’s distinctive efficiency: “Ending in second place, successful silver, it’s my place at the moment. Congratulations to Michelle for the wonderful capturing.”

Seong secured the bronze, marking her Olympic debut with a podium end. The younger pentathlete was thrilled together with her efficiency and is happy for the longer term.

“It feels nice to have this bronze medal,” she mentioned, “however I nonetheless wish to get the gold, so I’m wanting ahead to the subsequent Video games.”

The three medallists shared a heart-warming second of friendship on the rostrum.

A phenomenal second to finish the fashionable pentathlon at Paris 2024, the Palace of Versailles including a layer of grandeur to what was already a spectacular occasion.