Romanian gymnast Ana Barbosu received her Olympic bronze medal during a ceremony in the capital Bucharest that marked the end of a series of controversies after the medal was initially awarded to US gymnast Jordan Chiles and later stripped.

“I didn’t expect the medal to be so heavy, but I would wear it day and night if that was the price,” Barbosu said after the ceremony.

The medal was re-awarded to Barbosu after the Court of Arbitration for Sport last week overturned an appeal by US national team coach Cecile Landi during the floor exercise final in Paris, which had catapulted Chiles into third place and pushed Barbosu down to fourth.

Following the appeal, Chiles was initially awarded the bronze medal and took part in the medal ceremony following the competition.

The decision caused an uproar in Romania, a traditional gymnastics stronghold, and prompted the country’s gymnastics federation to request a review of the U.S. team’s appeal.

The CAS ultimately ruled in Barbosu’s favor on the grounds that the US team had filed an appeal four seconds after the one-minute deadline had expired.

Speaking to reporters after receiving her medal, Barbosu said the resolution of the controversy was “possible with the help of the federation and the law firm, who did not give up on us athletes and fought for us.”

“I am very happy with this medal and hope to represent Romania at the highest level and bring home more medals,” she said.

Romania was long considered a superpower in gymnastics, but has not been able to stand out in recent years.

Barbosu’s result gives Romania its first Olympic medal in gymnastics since the 2012 London Games. USA Gymnastics has announced that it will continue to work to ensure the Chilean keeps her medal.

Requests are a standard part of gymnastics competitions, where athletes or coaches ask judges to review an exercise to ensure elements are scored correctly. Scores can be adjusted up or down based on a request.

But the Paris Games affair was painful for all athletes involved and was made worse by the flood of online abuse directed at the gymnasts. Chiles, who received some racially motivated comments on social media that she described as “wrong and extremely hurtful,” said the decision to strip her of her bronze medal was “unjust.”

Barbosu said the medal controversy was “sad” and that “we expected the referees and the staff at the Olympics to do their jobs properly.” However, she was sending “good thoughts” to the U.S. gymnasts.

“I’m thinking of her even though I got the medal today,” she said.