The Olympian scored a bronze medal in balance beam on Tuesday, tying the record for the most medals of any American gymnast.
netting a third-place finish in Tuesday’s event behind Chinese athletes Guan Chenchen and Tang Xijing.
With seven Olympic medals total, the 24-year-old is now tied with Shannon Miller for the most awarded American gymnast. It’s likely she could have won more medals in some other timeline—perstatements to the press, it sounds like she has no regrets.. “ So to be clear, to do beam, which I didn’t think I was going to be, just meant the world to be back out there. And I wasn’t expecting to walk away with the medal. I was just going out there doing this for me.”
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