She started strong, making a two-and-a-half turn on the beam look effortless. Lasse Norman Hansen of Denmark leads the six-event contest at the midway point. No Americans qualified for the vault final.
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Usain Bolt rarely complains about going too fast.
Wevers, 24, was the second-oldest competitor in the final. She has 14 total, including bronze on vault past year.
Asked if she can tell her three gold medals apart, she flashed the megawatt smile that has graced magazine covers and newspaper front pages and said: “You can tell which is which because on the bottom they are engraved”. She has shown us what she is capable of on this event, and it is imperative that she shows it today. “And so that’s how we have fun”, Biles said.
Hernandez then hugged her coach and got a warm hug from a smiling Biles. Biles already has become the first USA gymnast to win three golds at a single Olympics and added a bronze in the balance beam Monday.
It was the USA’s 50th consecutive victory in a major global FIBA event and 22nd consecutive Olympic victory.
That’s why it was so important for Simone Biles to assert that she’s not the “next” anyone.
Still, Hong finished second, ahead of Biles, at the 2015 world championships.
Simone Biles tries for gold medal No. 4 in these games, this time in the Balance Beam Final alongside teammate Laurie Hernandez.
First individual medal for Hernandez- not the last? “Besides that error, the rest of the routine was excellent”.
She still managed to take bronze behind Dutch gymnast Sanne Wevers and USA teammate Laurie Hernandez.
According to Associated Press sports writer Will Graves, here’s what Biles makes of missing out on a potential five gold medals at Rio.
Former 200m gold medallist Veronica Campbell-Brown suffered a shock exit in the heats while reigning world champion Nicholas Bett of Kenya crashed out of the first round of the men’s 400m hurdles. “I don’t really know what happened”.
The Jamaican sprinter’s swan song in the Olympic 100 meters was a pedestrian-by-his-standards 9.81-second sprint, capped off by pointing to his chest a step before the finish line.
Epke Zonderland, known as the “Flying Dutchman”, defends his horizontal bars title with Germany’s Fabien Hambuechen looking to complete his collection of silver and bronze from London and Beijing. “So I’m happy I proved everyone wrong”.
Naddour fought back though, and gave arguably the best performance of his life on the pommel horse.
Australia’s Edwina Bone looks on as the USA’s Katie Reinprecht controls the ball during the women’s field hockey Australia vs U.S. match of the Rio 2016 Olympics Games at the Olympic Hockey Centre in Rio de Janeiro on August 8, 2016. She’ll join Madison Kocian with one of each.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled early Monday morning that long jumper Darya Klishina is eligible to take part in Tuesday’s qualifying.
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Mark Cavendish, the victor of 30 stages in the Tour de France, tries to capture the Olympic medal that has long eluded him when he returns to the Rio velodrome for the omnium.
