America’s Simone Biles competes on the beam during the women’s qualifications at the Rio Olympics. The gap between that Russian team and the Brazilian team that finished dead last was 4.601 points.
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The Americans had the highest team score on every event.
A celebratory occasion for a Thai Olympic bronze medal winner’s family has turned somber – the athlete’s grandmother collapsed and died minutes before he won the third place in the 56-kilogram weightlifting category in Rio. The U.S.’s margin of victory was the highest since 1960.
Biles wobbled slightly on the beam but held allowing the United States to confidently stride into the final rotation on floor with nearly a five-point lead on China.
Hernandez revealed why the group had opted for the nickname “Final Five” as opposed to the “Feirce Five” of four years ago.
The team adopted the #FinalFive moniker for two distinct reasons.
Gymnastics fans, even ones who only watch every four years, are here for the performance.
She was the first African-American to be world all-around champion and the first woman to win three world all-around titles in succession.
“We set the standard and we’re not going down”.
How good – no, great – is this team?
A score of 15.800 confirmed the result and gave the US their second successive team gold.
Download the Team USA app today for breaking news, 2016 U.S. Olympic Team bios, videos and more. Team Japan, whose male counterparts scored the gold in the men’s final yesterday, placed just out of the medals in fourth. How’s that for pressure?
“As long as you can feel the energy and you feel that the crowd is really into it, I don’t think it really matter how many people are there”. We’ve been doing so many competition routines in the gym at practice so that by the time you get to tonight, it just feels like a normal day.
Ledecky already won gold in the 400-meter free, beating her world record time, and earned silver anchoring the 4×100-meter freestyle relay. This is the best team that we have ever seen. The teenager from Columbus, Ohio, was raised by her grandfather and his wife – to her they are mum and dad – due to her biological mother’s drug and alcohol addiction. “I wanted the energy in the arena to boost them up as opposed to make them tense up”. They were almost flawless all throughout.
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She made it look easy as hit 15.933 on the vault, followed by 14.800 on uneven bars, on which world champion Kocian gave a spectacular display of aerial acrobatics to lead the way with 15.933. A few moments later, when the result was official, Biles, Raisman, Hernandez, Gabby Douglas and Madison Kocian huddled together, stacked their hands and broke with a shout: “We are the Final Five!”.
