Simone Biles delivered big time on the floor to bring home the Olympic gold medal for Team USA. Now with eight Olympic medals, Biles is the most decorated U.S. Olympic gymnast in history. Watch the 2024 Paris Olympics on NBC and streaming on Peacock, July 26 - Aug 11.
Simone Biles and Jordan Chiles competed in all four events, Suni Lee did bars, beam and floor, and Jade Carey competed on vault. Olympic newcomer Hezly Rivera didn't compete but still earned a medal.Few athletes have weathered more cataclysmic shifts in their sport than Biles. Eleven years after she won her first world championship, Biles reflected on how the sport has evolved throughout her career.
"Honestly, I would have had to Google that," she said when asked about becoming the most decorated U.S. gymnast in Olympic history. "I think in 2016, we were destined to win gold ... We were a little young and naive. So it didn’t hit the way that it does now," Biles said after today's final."Now that I'm much older, we have so much more experience and we're out here really having fun and enjoying what we're doing, so I think it's just different."Defending all-around gold medalist Suni Lee stuck the landing of her uneven bars routine, helping the U.S.
Chiles told Kotb she was ready to"just have a party" ahead of the event, adding that she was thinking,"I'm just going to go out there and do what I know." “Keep an eye out on her ankles,” commentator and Olympic gymnastics medalist Laurie Hernandez told viewers. “You can always tell if a gymnast is nervous by the way her ankles shake while she’s either walking or on her tippy toes.”
She also sported her Team USA leotard today and warmed up with her teammates, ready to step in as an alternate in the event of an injury.Biles has officially become the most decorated American gymnast in the history of the Olympic Games with eight medals.Rebecca Cohen Jordan Chiles, Hezly Rivera, Simone Biles, Sunisa Lee and Jade Carey celebrate winning the gold medal in the gymnastics women's team final at the Paris Olympics on Tuesday.After a rough beam routine, Chiles more than redeemed herself on floor. She tumbled to the music of her hero, Beyoncé.Chiles stands out on floor for her magnetic stage presence. While other gymnasts play it safe to conserve energy, Chiles goes just as hard on her dance skills as she does on her complex acrobatics.
Their daughter, Juliette Landi, represented France in synchronized diving earlier in these Games, so the Landis' know what it's like to sit in the stands as nervous parents, too.Beam, the trickiest event, is up next for the Team USA ladies. They're hoping they can make it through the third rotation without any falls.In the theater world, they say a bad dress rehearsal means a good show.
Gymnastics history books already have Biles’ name written all over them, but she could join yet another echelon of the sport’s royalty by having a skill named after her on every event. Andrade and Biles will face off for gold in the today's team final, as well as the all-around, vault, beam and floor finals. While they have competed against each other before, Paris is set to be the first Olympic showdown with both of them at peak form.Flávia Saraiva, one of Team Brazil's stars, suffered a scary fall from the uneven bars in warmups. She appears to have a black eye after seeking medical attention, but posted a strong 13.666 on bars.
While the lowest score on each event could be dropped during qualifying, all scores count in the team final.After winning the team silver medal in Tokyo, the U.S. women aren't afraid to say it — they want that gold medal.said at the trials in Minneapolis Simone Biles and Jordan Chiles will do all four events in today's final. Suni Lee will compete on the uneven bars, balance beam and floor.
“We really connected the designs to Paris as the host city,” Diaz said. “Paris is known to be the fashion capital of the world, and we know all eyes are on Team USA, so we made sure that we had that cohesion of fashion throughout but also that the whole collection was unmistakably Team USA.” "It's super exciting that we get to be in each other's elements and supporting each other's dreams and goals," Biles said at the time."It's these memories that we make that we'll never get back, so any time we can show up for one another and support, we just get super excited because our schedules don't align that much so whenever it does, it's really important for both of us to show up and support.", who anchored the U.S.
She is currently tied with"Magnificent Seven" star Shannon Miller at seven Olympic medals. A podium finish today would bring her Olympic medal collection to eight.
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