The U.S. Women’s Gymnastics Team has managed to dominate their competition in the 2016 Rio Olympics.
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Fans wanted “GLAMSquad”, Simone Biles’ coach suggested “Slay Squad”, and fans voted for “Phenomenal Five”.
Completing the stability to which Simone returns when lands from her increasingly athletic and gravity-defying vaults and jumps is the family church, St. James the Apostle.
“When a kid is wobbling you are worrying”, US coach Mihai Brestyan admitted to The Daily Beast afterwards.
There was no need to worry.
Lynn Raisman told People all about her sideline nerves while watching her daughter perform. Biles has the very real possibility of nabbing five gold medals and finally putting to rest the debate over whether she is the greatest gymnast of all time.
For the rest of the day, the Americans were on a different planet.
Team U.S.A. scored 184.897 points in their team total.
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They ran faster, spun tighter, jumped higher, and flipped further than anyone else. Raisman, who won three medals in London four years ago and seemed to be on the outside looking in as recently as this spring, followed with perhaps the finest vault of her long career. “That helped us”, said the Texan. “We’ve have good teams before but there were issues here and there”. In addition, religious practice can increase physical and mental health, longevity, and education attainment.
“We are the Final Five!”
It was little wonder that her team mates were already hugging and whooping for joy even before she had begun her hip-swinging routine to the beats of Samba music. Gabby Douglas told Christianity Today that as a young child, she and her family were homeless and often had to eat off the floor off napkins. Gabby Douglas has faced attacks on Twitter for her hair-a throwback to similar racist criticism she got at the 2012 games-and for not putting her hand over her heart during the National Anthem.
You are now subscribed to the Daily Digest and Cheat Sheet. Focused and stern faced, Douglas took a deep breath, leapt onto the uneven bars and 35 seconds later nailed her landing, giving a big smile, her work done. When Biles drilled her Amanar and put up a 15.933 – tied for highest of the night – the US was already on top of the leaderboard and everyone else was playing for second.
The gold medal winners took to social media to announce their new name and show off their gold medals.
Lauren Hernandez’s sassy floor routine elicited nearly full hometown cheers. It was just the beginning, though: Aly Raisman followed it up with a almost flawless routine for a 15.3.
It transpired that they were simply laying the groundwork for Biles. Raisman’s power tumbling and firm landings kept the momentum going and electrified the crowd. For much of the last two years, her stock answer when asked about Rio was that she just hoped she made the team.Never mind that there was as much a chance of leaving her home as USA Swimming deciding it didn’t need that Michael Phelps guy.
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“It didn’t feel like the Olympics”.
