Qualifying rounds began Sunday for the gymnasts at the 2024 Olympics, and Team USA showed the world why they’re still in a league of their own. TODAY’s Hoda Kotb shares the highlights of the competitions.
The Olympics women's gymnastics team final starts at 12:15 p.m. ET and will be shown on NBC and streamed live on
Biles' also includes Beyoncé — and Taylor Swift, too. Her set features"...Ready For It?’ and"Delresto " by Travis Scott ft. Beyoncé.Vault was the event in which Biles withdrew from the team competition in Tokyo, so she's showing it's a much different story on the"redemption tour" in Paris. Hezly Rivera competes in the floor exercise during the women's U.S. Olympic Gymnastics Trials on June 30, 2024, in Minneapolis.Only three gymnasts can compete in each of the four events for each team in the finals. Every score counts in the finals, compared to the qualifying round, where teams can drop the worst of their four scores.
She described the sensation in further detail, likening it to being unable to control a car you drive daily. She enters today's competition with four gold medals, two bronze and one silver in her Olympic career, which ties her with former two-time Olympian Shannon Miller at 7 Olympic medals. Biles' four gold medals are already a U.S. record for women's gymnastics.
Biles would have five career gold medals, with potentially four still up for grabs. She has qualified for the individual all-around vault, balance beam and floor exercise events on Thursday.The U.S. enters as a strong favorite to run away with the team gold medal after besting its closest competitor, Italy, by more than five points in the qualifying round.
That means Biles, Jordan Chiles and Suni Lee will be the ones to bring it home in floor exercise. The event is a strength for Chiles, who finished third in qualifying, while Lee took 24th. No other gymnast in the world has ever completed one in international competition. The degree of difficulty is so high that even if Biles has points deducted for hopping back on her landing, it doesn't dramatically affect her score.
Rebeca Andrade and Brazil will look to make a run at their first women's gymnastics team medal in Olympic history.dominated qualifying. If they are able to repeat that performance and Carey is feeling better today, the U.S. will be very hard to beat. She continued, “I had, like, no energy today and didn’t really have a sense of what was going on in my head. So, I just kind of wanted people to know that so, they know that there’s actually something wrong.”
A key will be getting off to a good start in their first event, the vault. Biles posted the highest score of any gymnast in that event in the qualifying round.Leave it up to Snoop Dogg to break any tension as Team USA women's gymnastics goes for the team gold.during the qualifying round on Sunday, bringing a whole other vibe than the tension of the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.
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