The last event of the day will be the women’s balance beam, where Simone Biles will compete for her fourth Olympic medal of the Rio Games.
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Simone Biles had gone three for three in the first week of the Olympics, picking up team, all-around and vault gold.
The next competitor up, Sanne Wevers of the Netherlands, took advantage and perhaps motivated by the unexpected opportunity in front of her delivered a brilliant routine for a score of 15.466 to win gold.
Biles, a double world champion on the beam, will be back on Tuesday when she will be favorite to win the floor exercise.
Competing as in the junior competition at the 2015 national championships, Hernandez won gold in individual all-around and on the uneven bars to glo along with silver on the floor and bronze on the vault and balance beam. When her score finally flashed up above, it was a 14.500.
In the 2012 London Olympics, USA teammate Aly Raisman secured bronze in balance beam. Romania’s Marian Dragulescu will do the Dragulescu, which earned him a bronze medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics. She produced a strong routine but just couldn’t beat out Wevers.
The 16-year-old from Old Bridge, N.J., scored 15.333 in the eight-woman final at Olympic Arena. Hernandez was second in the qualifying round, just.267 behind Biles.
Hernandez, a 16 year old native of New Jersey, was gunning for gold herself, particularly once Biles proved human.
Isabela Onyshko of Canada followed with a routine that also had problems – she fell sideways off the beam after a twisting flip in which her feet didn’t find the middle of the beam.
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That hurt her with the judges, who awarded her 13.40 points. She and her coaches attempted an inquiry on Laurie’s score because they thought she deserved higher, but it was rejected.
