After routing Senegal and setting Olympic records in points, margin of victory and assists, the US women’s team next faces Spain at 12 p.m. His semifinal doubles match with Marc Lopez and a first-round mixed doubles match are to take place later.
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In other soccer action, the defending champion USA women’s soccer team takes on Columbia.
In London, the Fierce Five held hands as they stared at the scoreboard and cried as the results came up. The U.S. women’s gymnastic teams look to repeat as champs as the All-Around Team Final takes place on August 9.
“I think that it is probably comparable with the era when Russian Federation was dominating and when Romania took over and was dominating”.
After watching the Chinese athletes perform their routines on the uneven bars, the USA squad is finally called. Since 1976, no country has won five consecutive team titles at major global competitions.
Before Tuesday, the previous biggest winning margin under the open-ended scoring system, which was introduced to the sport in 2006, came at the 2014 world championships when the Americans beat China by 6.693 points.
The arena is quite loud at times with cheering – particularly for the Brazilian team that’s concurrently competing on the floor exercise.
Below, check out more of Team USA, including Dannell Leyva, who tragically fell off the high bar earlier. “So we should carry ourselves that way, not be scared and shaky because we have that pressure”.
There were stories leading up to the day’s competition, however.
Biles was the first African-American to be world all-around champion and the first woman to win three world all-around titles in succession. Of course, Douglas, a veteran at 20 years old, was dominant on the uneven bars with a 15.766 score, as was Kocian. Raisman and Biles each nailed an Amanar, which is one of the toughest vaults being done today.
Finally, floor, again with Hernandez, Raisman and Biles. “Congrats on sticking the Biles and qualifying for the finals @Simone_Biles!” the Neighbors 2 star posted on Monday.
The Americans had the highest team score on every event.
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Her outright dominance in the last three years has been down to the cleanliness of her executions.
Until then, there are more medals to chase.
United States’ Aly Raisman performs on the vault during the artistic gymnastics women’s team final at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2016.
“I can’t say that I’m happy, it’s just good that I was able to compete”, she said.
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“#GoTeamUSA”, Biles added. “Behind all of our hard work and dedication, are our coaches who have never given up on us and put in work for us to be where we are”.
