Livvy Dunne reflects on watching Simone Biles in person at Olympics, 'heartbreaking' Jordan Chiles controversy

You deliberation Simone Biles is bully connected TV? Imagine watching her successful person.

Well, Livvy Dunne did conscionable that successful Paris – successful fact, she competed alongside the seven-time Olympic golden medalist erstwhile they were successful their younger days.

"I utilized to bash elite with her, and she conscionable has ever been truthful dominant," Dunne said successful a caller interrogation with Fox News Digital. "I don’t cognize if there’s ever going to beryllium anyone who has astir the magnitude of endowment arsenic Simone Biles."

Dunne took the travel to Paris to enactment Team USA, and she saw them predominate the games erstwhile again.

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Simone Biles and Jordan Chiles airs with their Olympic medals astatine Bercy Arena connected Aug. 5, 2024, successful Paris. (Jamie Squire/Getty Images)

But, arsenic usual, it was Biles who took her enactment away.

"Watching her successful idiosyncratic is specified a treat. To spot what she does and however precocious she tin spell successful person, it’s truly an grant to ticker her. That’s the champion mode to picture it," Dunne added.

While Dunne was successful Paris, though, she saw first-hand the emotional roller coaster that Jordan Chiles was on.

Chiles initially finished 4th successful the idiosyncratic level competition, but an accepted enquiry bumped her people up one-tenth of a point. That brought her to a bronze medal victory, causing the archetypal victor of the medal, Ana Barbosu, to spell from solemnisation to tears and choler – each portion Chiles and Biles celebrated.

Jordan Chiles is congratulated by teammate Simone Biles aft dramatically claiming the bronze medal connected a people alteration connected Aug. 5, 2024, successful Paris. (Mehmet Murat Onel/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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However, the Romanian Gymnastics Federation challenged that the enquiry was submitted past the one-minute deadline, which yet was the ruling – thus, Chiles was near without a medal.

"That was a tricky situation. I don’t cognize if they made the scores adjacent connected purpose, I person nary clue. I’ve ne'er seen thing similar that successful gymnastics history," Dunne said. "I emotion Jordan, she’s 1 of my bully friends, we grew up doing elite gymnastics together. I conscionable deliberation the full concern was truthful tricky, and I consciousness atrocious for everyone that was a portion of it.

"You evidently enactment truthful hard to get to the Olympics, and to person a medal there, and past taken distant truthful easily, and person it beryllium truthful finicky, it’s heartbreaking for everyone involved. I conscionable anticipation my miss Jordan is OK. It got dragged retired mode excessively long, adjacent aft the games were over. The full concern was conscionable ace tricky, and I consciousness truthful atrocious for each the girls involved."

Ana Maria Barbosu poses with her Olympic bronze medal connected Aug. 16, 2024, successful Bucharest, Romania. (Daniel Mihailescu/AFP via Getty Images)

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Chiles filed an entreaty successful the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland successful 1 much effort to get the medal back.

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