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Simone Biles Begins The Gold Rush With Group Gymnastics Win
On Tuesday night, they captured the team gold in dominant fashion, exceeding sky-high expectations and hype.
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USA Today’s Nicole Auerbach tweeted a photo from the mixed zone, where swimmers are interviewed in between races, of Katie Ledecky pausing mid-interview to watch the tight finish of Michael Phelps’s 200-meter butterfly final with the journalists.
Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympian in history, has more gold to add to his trophy case. Coverage of the preliminary heats begin at 11 am CT.
The U.S. women’s team – comprised of Simone Biles, Gabby Douglas, Laurie Hernandez, Madison Kocian and Aly Raisman – handily defeated their competition Tuesday in Rio to capture gold.
From her seat in the Rio Olympic Arena, just above the balance beam, Karolyi’s eyes grew wet behind her glasses as she watched her squad dominate and win the team gold medal.
“Watching Aly makes me want to ideal the things that she does”, Hanano said. Eastern and can be seen on delay during NBC’s primetime segment at 8:00 p.m.
Biles is the world’s best, and she can do whatever she wants on the beam. Does he Tweet back? Each U.S. gymnast has made an event final, and the Americans have two in each event except for vault where Biles is the only one who tried to qualify.
Her teammate, Shawn Johnson finished with a silver medal in the all-around individual Olympics competition in 2008.
Speraw said his young team talked about their nerves following the loss to Canada. The women’s team will face Australia in a quarterfinal match on Friday.
The women’s all-around final is Thursday.
This was a second consecutive Olympic gold medal in the team event for the US women and was the final global campaign for the legendary Martha Karolyi, the team’s national coordinator.
Karolyi said it may have been the first time she had cried at an Olympics since Nadia Comaneci of Romania won her first gold medal in Montreal in 1976. Harrison has since come back and regained her status as world No. 1 in her weight class.
“It was fine, when I was watching I wanted to encourage the girls as much as I can and when I was competing just contribute to Team USA as best as I could”, said Douglas. “Gymnastics is really my hobby, ever since I was twenty-something”.
While the gold was never in doubt, you wouldn’t have known about it by watching Karolyi. Scherer competes second after Ginny Thrasher who won the gold in 10m air rifle Saturday.
It marked the most lopsided women’s gymnastics team victory since the Rome Games in 1960 when the Soviet Union scored 382.320 points to 373.323 for Czechoslovakia under a different scoring system. Next up is India in Pool B of the women’s field hockey tournament.
We’re not sure how to describe Serena Williams’ straight-set loss Tuesday to Elina Svitolina, 6-4, 6-3, in just 72 minutes.
MANAUS, Brazil (AP) – With time running out, Catalina Usme beat Hope Solo with a free kick from a tight angle to give Colombia a 2-2 draw against the United States on Tuesday at the Olympics.
Sure, the road to glory for the USA women’s gymnastics team was only two nights compared to several months, but if it had been longer, we would have only seen more greatness.
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At the other end of Olympic Park, the USA women’s gymnastics team captured a second straight gold with a high-flying and dominating performance.