Jordan child's Olympic medal controversy Anna barbosu wins bronze medal in Romania one day after child speaks out the international Olympic Committee and a court of appeals have allowed Anna barbosu to accept the bronze medal in a ceremony in Romania on Friday even so the struggle for Jordan childes bronze medal is far from finished on Thursday the gymnast went out for the first time thanking supporters and expressing her grief about the situation according to USA Today childes still holds her bronze medal and USA Gymnastics has pledged to take the case to Switzerland's highest court the ioc on Thursday said Romania could move forward with the medal ceremony for barbosu after apparently rejecting a Romanian proposal that all three athletes involved in the dispute be awarded bronze medals this all comes after new information emerged about the three-person panel convened by the court of arbitration for sport Cas which ruled to strip childes of her medal the chair of the panel reportedly has active ties to Romania which would be a clear conflict of interest yet he was still allowed to participate in a decision that ruled in Romania's favor. Casas has responded to those reports and released a statement passing blame for the controversy on to the International Gymnastics Federation fig