“Well, that might be bearable”, Biles allowed, noting Raisman is 22, “and we’ve all seen what she does at this age”. Women’s national team coordinator Martha Karolyi was asked if it was disappointing that Biles lost. A gymnast putting their hands on the beam results in a points deduction equivalent to a fall.
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Sanne held on for the gold medal, while Biles settled for bronze.
Simone Biles was content with a bronze medal in the balance beam final after stumbling and almost falling on Monday.
“When I was doing the team, I felt that we were pushing each other’s backs, propelling each other along”.
The 23-year-old Whitlock scored 15.633 points to achieve his fourth Olympic medal and second in Rio after all-around bronze. “A medal is a medal”. She has all the capability in the world to medal on this event as long as she goes out and performs a perfectly executed routine.
Rio’s Day 10 of competition featuring action in boxing, cycling, marathon swimming, wrestling, began with Anita Wlodarczyk of Poland winning the women’s hammer throw gold medal with a world record of 82.29 meters. She won silver at the 2015 World Championships in dramatic fashion; after she got off the beam, she hurried to her notebook to calculate her own difficulty score. Yet she hardly looked overcome by the moment as she dazzled on her favorite event while securing a seventh medal for the American women.
The judges pondered over her score for several minutes and when 14.733 flashed up on the big screen, Biles rolled her eyes skywards as the mark was nearly a point lower than her qualifying effort of 15.633.
“She has all the talent but it’s just that she is so determined and she works so hard”, Manitoba Gymnastics Association executive director Kathy Stoesz told the Winnipeg Sun this past March.
“I’m disappointed in the routine that I did”.
After a week of dominance in Rio, Simone Biles was still strong in Monday’s individual balance beam finals – but she didn’t finish on top.
And now she has three.
But Karolyi and Brestyan turned the experience into a positive, and it launched her into this season.
Biles’ first vault was an Amanar.
Although she comfortably won the event, two of her competitors were forced to try an incredibly risky move known as the “the Produnova” in order to impress the judges.
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When it didn’t happen – and really, it never does in gymnastics any more – the 19-year-old star settled for a pretty sweet consolation prize: a third gold medal in Rio. “It’s obviously not something that people expect or that’s easy to do after taking a year off and having it be the second Olympics or being the grandma or whatever they like to say. I am happy to do something for my country”.
