Four Seconds in Paris: How Jordan Chiles’ Bronze Medal Became the World’s Smallest Geopolitical Crisis
Jordan Chiles, the American gymnast whose bronze medal in Paris is now entombed in bureaucratic amber, has become an international Rorschach test. From the cafés of Bucharest to the izakaya of Tokyo, people aren’t debating whether she stuck her landings; they’re arguing who gets to keep the moral high ground this week. The Court of…