Laurie Hernandez, Olympic gold medalist and NBC analyst, joins TODAY to break down what to expect from Team USA women’s gymnastics “redemption tour” at the Paris Olympics and which teams pose the biggest threat in their quest for gold. Watch the 2024 Paris Olympics on NBC and streaming on Peacock, starting with the Opening Ceremony July 26 at 12 p.
Women's gymnastics team qualifications take place early today. The U.S., helmed by Simone Biles, will hope to qualify first as a team and have finalists in all-around and individual events.
As expected, the U.S. women dominated the qualification round. After the second of five subdivisions, they scored a 172.296, which is more than five points over Italy, China and Great Britain. Simone Biles scored 59.566 in qualifying, a score that would have won the last two world championships. The U.S. women are well on their way to qualifying for every gymnastics event final, including the team final. As they prepare to close out this qualification round on bars, a tight race is emerging between Sunisa Lee and Jordan Chiles.
Biles is displaying incredible fortitude here; performing that vault on an ankle that may be bothering her is no easy feat.Her first vault score will count toward her all-around total. Her second vault, a Cheng, scored a 14.800. A 15.300 average will easily put her on track to make the vault final, along with her teammate, Jade Carey.
Chiles is one of three U.S. gymnasts who will attempt two vaults, along with Jade Carey and Simone Biles. They are all capable of making the final, but again, only the top two Americans will qualify.Vault is not Sunisa Lee's strongest event, but she cruised though it with a clean double-twisting Yurchenko. A 14.133 is a great score for Lee.
Despite getting her ankle taped after her one-touch warm up, she earned a 14.600. She and her training mate, Jordan Chiles, are on track to make the floor final.Despite a strong start to her routine, Jade Carey's last tumbling pass ended in heartbreak. She appeared to get lost in the air on her double tuck, doing only a full tuck and rolling back out of bounds.
After her beam routine, Biles consulted the team's athletic trainer. The next event is floor, which is the most physically taxing of the four. Australian director Baz Luhrmann and Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour and actress Jessica Chastain attend the artistic gymnastics women's qualification during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.As if the first routines of the Olympics weren't nerve-wracking enough for Team USA. Simone Biles and company will start their competition on what is probably the most difficult apparatus to settle in on, the balance beam.
Overall, Team USA's women are expected to sail through to the team final in the top spot and will be able to drop the lowest qualifying score on each apparatus.Team USA have been eliminated from the women's team archery competition after suffering a 5-1 defeat to Chinese Taipei in the Round of 16. Xie Yu took gold in the 10m men's air pistol event this morning, with Italy taking both silver and bronze.Much has been made of the water quality of the River Seine in the build-up to the Games, with Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo taking a dip herself to prove the water is safe.
Sports seeing their first action of the Games Sunday include sailing and skateboarding, and tonight's swimming finals are set to be headlined by France's poster boy Leon Marchand, who will be looking to end the host's 12-year gold medal drought in the pool, and Team USA Gretchen Walsh, who has qualified fastest in the women's 100m butterfly.You may have spotted before the start of a session at the Olympics an unusual ritual of someone banging a stick on the ground.
Because one bad qualification routine could take a gymnast out of the all-around, apparatus or even team finals, an ill-timed error in this round of competition tends to produce a ripple effect of heartbreak.The current scoring system can seem less intuitive than the previous one to audiences who do not follow the sport between the Olympic Games.
When she was growing up, she said her Ethiopian father, who loves soccer, started a soccer club for Ethiopian kids in the Bay Area “to come together and play.”“I just feel like I’ve had a lot of people supporting me, backing me along the way,” she said, “and I wouldn’t be here without them so I think it would just be an incredible feeling for all of us.”Fencing uses three different weapons: epee , foil, and saber.
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