Czechoslovakia – remember when we used to call it that?
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After Biles finished her power-packed floor exercise, the scoreboard showed that the United States had amassed 184.897 points, an eight-point gap over silver medal-winning team Russian Federation, and the largest margin in the history of the event. I mean Russian Federation did end up winning the silver, and China took the bronze. During the qualifying round on Sunday, Team USA beat China by almost.
Hernandez revealed why the group had opted for the nickname “Final Five” as opposed to the “Fierce Five” of four years ago. As fans cheered – both in the Rio Olympic Arena and at home on the couch – the women that made up the 2016 Olympic team gathered to celebrate.
The United States women’s gymnastics team stood in a cluster and looked up at the scoreboard overhead. “The three favourites are USA, USA and USA”, said the commentator before the event got under way.
Simone Biles got her bid for a record five gold medals at the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games off to a flying start as the United States women coasted to a team gymnastics title defence on Tuesday, with China edged into third by Russian Federation after costly mistakes from the mainlanders. Aly Raisman and Simone Biles each nailed an Amanar, which is one of the toughest vaults being done today.
Also noteworthy is that Douglas and Raisman became the first American women to repeat as Olympic team champions.
Simone Biles, Gabby Douglas, Laurie Hernandez, Madison Kocian and Aly Raisman soared into Olympic history with observers saying this year’s USA squad is the best ever.
In the equestrian competition, Phillip Dutton of the USA has won the bronze in individual event.
They are five women tiny enough to huddle under a single American flag.
“We had a lot of pressure coming in but I think we handled it pretty well”, said Raisman.
Martha Karolyi leaned forward, her hands clutching the railing in front of her seat.
“It’s flawless”, Biles said.
The U.S. men’s volleyball team has dropped to 0-2 after a 3-1 loss to Italy.
Laurie Hernandez might or might not have winked at the judges before her powerful floor routine.
Simone Biles finished with the highest individual scores in the vault, the balance beam and the floor exercise to spirit the United States team to a record-breaking win. To lose the lead after the third turn and still push ahead of Swedens Sjostrom who set the world record to win Sundays 100 fly gold and win by 35 hundredths makes me wonder what she cant do.
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Daily Dismount reporter Tanith White confirmed the news on her podcast following the victory saying that the team, “chose this name because this is, allegedly, this is the final Olympic Games where the US women’s gymnastics team will be led by women’s national team coordinator, Marta Karolyi”. We just have to keep going in and train.
