There was no need for Greek muscle man Eleftherios Petrounias or North Korea’s Ri Se-gwang to watch any re-runs of their performances on the rings and vault respectively to know they had struck gold.
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Biles, the overwhelming favourite and double world champion on beam, looked rock solid as she spun around 900 degrees on her right toes. Biles won’t leave Brazil with five golds – something no female gymnast has ever done – and she’s totally OK with it.
Brazilian native Miriam Nagl has been chosen to hit the opening tee shot for women’s golf, at the Olympics for the first time since 1900 in France.
Raisman, 22, received a gold medal in the all-around team event and a silver medal in the all-around individual event so far in these Olympic Games.
Her distinctiveness lies in the graceful sure-footed spins which Wevers executes in doubles and triples, maximizing every tenth of a point on the table and, in yesterday’s breathtaking routine, scoring the highest difficulty score of the final, along with the second-highest execution score.
“Oh my god, this is so fantastic”, the Dutchwoman said.
“The final was just nerve-wrecking”, Wevers said according to the Olympics website.
“The plan was to go all-out, but then I saw Simone making mistakes”. She had just lost her chance at creating history. “In 2012 I just wanted to be done, I wanted nothing to do with the sport anymore and now I am very happy, very pleased with the place that I am in and I am happy with how I have finished my career”, he said.
Just in case Mattel doesn’t jump on this prime time marketing opportunity to add Biles to that collection, parents can always count on children for their imaginative and creative spirits to make their own ” Team USA”, however they please.
“The combination of both is crucial and it is something that I decide myself”.
Boorman marveled at Biles’ ability to stay on the beam at all after she under-rotated on a front somersault – a punch front – and grabbed the beam in a one-legged squat.
Fans of the US Olympic gymnast were physically recoiling with grief over the death of her gold medal streak when she fell on the beam during her fourth event on Monday.
“I’m so proud of Laurie because she does those same exact routines in practice”, Biles said.
Yulia Stepanova and her husband, Vitaly, spoke up about a state-run doping system in Russian Federation that led to the ouster of the country’s athletes from the Rio Olympic track meet.
Russia’s Denis Abliazin narrowly missed out on silver as he scored 15.700.
With five Olympic medals, she is tied with Nastia Liukin and Mary Lou Retton as the second-most decorated American gymnasts of all time.
Bronze went to the young Japanese Kenzo Shirai, 19, with 15,449.
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Biles’ maternal grandparents made a decision to adopt the two youngest girls, bringing them to Houston from OH on Christmas Eve, 2002.
