Jordan Chiles Is Training for the L.A. Olympics. Her Paris Bronze Is Under Review.

The UCLA star is the fourth gymnast from the gold-medal Paris team to declare for the Los Angeles Games.

Jordan Chiles is going back to elite gymnastics, aiming at a third Olympics, this one in Los Angeles. The Paris team gold medalist said on September 2, 2026 that she'll train for the 2028 Games, in an announcement video narrated by Michael Jordan, the basketball star she's named after, as the Los Angeles Times reported.

The decision costs her a soft landing she already had. Chiles finished a decorated UCLA career this year, and on September 1, 2026 the school said she'd rejoin the program as a student coach. Since Paris she's been a finalist on “Dancing with the Stars,” published a memoir, I'm That Girl: Living the Power of my Dreams, and landed on Time's list of the 100 most influential people in sports.

Now she's back to full elite training with less than two years on the clock.

One piece of Paris still isn't settled. Chiles won bronze on floor there, her first individual Olympic medal, with a Beyoncé-inspired routine, and the score was upgraded past Romania's Ana Barbosu after an inquiry — a result the Court of Arbitration for Sport is still considering, the Times reported. Whether she keeps that medal isn't up to her.

She's the fourth gymnast from the 2024 gold-medal team to declare for 2028, following Suni Lee, Jade Carey and Hezly Rivera. Simone Biles, who is 29 and has 11 Olympic medals, hasn't formally come out of retirement.

A third Olympics is rare for an American woman. Before Biles, none had managed it in 24 years: Dominique Dawes got to hers in 2000, and only Linda Metheny and Muriel Grossfield had done it earlier. Three women are now in line to try in 2028, the outlet reported.

The college résumé she's leaving behind is a loud one. Chiles was a 23-time All-American and won her second and third individual NCAA titles, on bars in 2025 and floor in 2026. She scored 19 perfect 10s at UCLA, third-most in program history, and took the AAI Award, given to the country's best senior gymnast.

“Because the dream is still there,” Jordan says in the video, answering his own question about why she's doing this again. Chiles supplies the shorter version: “Why not?”

The first date on her calendar isn't an Olympic one. It's the UCLA season, from the coaching side of the floor.

Source: latimes.com, retrieved September 3, 2026.