This is Biles’ first Olympic Games, and she’ll have the chance to go for four more gold in various individual exercises.
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NBC says the comparison is valid because even though the cable viewers weren’t watching the same thing as people tuned in to NBC, they were still watching the Olympics.
The US women’s gymnastics team, anchored by all around world champion Simone Biles, won the team gold medal at the Olympics on Tuesday by the widest margin ever. Biles suggested “Final Five”, which the team agreed upon to represent Karolyi’s last Olympics, and the fact that only four women will be sent to Tokyo for the all-around final in 2020. “It’s very hard to make Martha cry”.
Now, the 19-year-old gymnast calls her grandparents, Ron and Nellie, mom and dad. She was so proud of us. “And she said, ‘This is why we do so many repetitions in practice'”. Biles also lead her team to the gold, finishing her floor exercise with a whopping 15.800.
Not since the golden era of the Soviet Union, which won eight successive women’s team golds between 1952 and 1980, has one team been so superior.
Day 3 of the Rio Games features medal action in gymnastics, swimming, fencing, women’s rugby, judo and more. Here’s how the competition works. They easily surpassed the previous record of 5.066 points, set by the Fierce Five in London. “I mean, I can believe it because we’ve been putting in the work, and all of our hard work has finally paid off”. All three scores count, so every fall, stumble or bumble is costly.
The Americans opened up with the vault.
Fittingly it was Biles who performed the final routine of the night on the floor for the US. Each of the three American women on each of the four events one-upped her predecessor as the USA topped the scoreboard in every apparatus.
On uneven bars, the Americans were spectacular.
Next up was Douglas, who’s almost three inches taller, at 21, than she was at the 2012 London Games. Clearly, they are feeling great about their routines.
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All in all, at the moment Russian Federation has three gold medals, six silver and three bronze. There’s a gymnast from Trinidad and Tobago on the balance beam! Kim Kardashian’s favorite athlete, Biles, earned the highest score on the vault of 15.933. Both delivered. Douglas got lots of height on her release skills and hit her handstands, then stuck her double layout dismount to get a 15.766. They started with a nearly-stuck Amanar vault, the one made famous by McKayla Maroney in 2012, from Raisman.
