Romanian gymnast Ana Barbosu, the 2024 Olympic floor exercise bronze medalist, will serve a two-year suspension for whereabouts failures for drug tests, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ruled.

Barbosu’s ban is backdated to May 5, 2026 when her provisional ban began, meaning she is eligible to return to competition in May 2028, two months before the Los Angeles Olympics, pending further possible appeals.

Barbosu had appealed the provisional ban, which was announced May 7, to CAS. A judge ruled that Barbosu’s three whereabouts failures between September 2025 and December 2025 were “correctly recorded,” according to a press release.

High-level Olympic sport athletes must provide daily whereabouts, including a specific daily 60-minute time slot, where they will be available for drug testing.

Any combination of three missed tests and/or filing failures (failing to provide accurate whereabouts) in a twelve-month span constitutes an anti-doping rule violation that can carry a standard suspension of up to two years depending on degree of fault.

“I wanted to share and clarify some information that has been circulating,” was posted on Barbosu’s Instagram story after the provisional ban was announced in May. “As you can imagine, moving to the US and starting college (at Stanford) has been a big transition. Navigating through all the changes has been challenging, and I’m continuing to learn and grow through each experience. To be clear, this situation has nothing to do with prohibited substances, and I have been grateful for the guidance and support throughout the process.”

Barbosu, 20, won a floor exercise bronze medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics, though an ongoing appeals process involving American Jordan Chiles’ score could affect the results.

CAS said Wednesday that the Barbosu-Chiles score case will not have a CAS hearing before May 2027 while the parties involved are exchanging written proceedings.

Chiles originally won floor bronze on Aug. 5, 2024, after a U.S. inquiry into her difficulty score during the competition led to it being raised by one tenth. That moved her from fifth place into bronze-medal position, passing Romanians Sabrina Voinea and Barbosu.

After a Romanian appeal, a CAS panel reverted Chiles’ score because the scoring inquiry was recorded as submitted four seconds past the one-minute time limit. Chiles was moved back to fifth place, five days after the competition on Aug. 10, 2024. Barbosu became the bronze medalist.

A month later in September 2024, it was announced that Chiles appealed the court decision to the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland. The appeal asserted that CAS refused to consider video evidence found on Aug. 11, 2024 (one day after the CAS ruling) that showed the inquiry was submitted on time.

In January 2026, the Swiss court ruled that CAS must re-examine the case, taking the new evidence into account.