“I’m not sentimental, but when Aly told me the name of the team is the Final Five, that is the moment”.
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In addition to providing the official outfits, GK has also partnered with more than 10 Olympic athletes, including gold medalists Gabrielle Douglas, Nastia Liukin and SImone Biles.
Russian gymnast Aliya Mustafina, who won the gold medal on the uneven bars at the 2012 London Games, said her team also entered the competition knowing they probably could not beat the Americans.
Aly Raisman competes on the beam during the women’s team final.
At just 4 feet 9 inches tall, Simone Biles might be the smallest American Olympian in Brazil, but she’s threatening to become Team USA’s biggest star of Rio 2016.
The US women’s gymnastics team made the team final a race for silver. Because they are all of us, watching our kids in the spotlight and feeling all the feels.
So commanding and consistent were the U.S. performances that members of the silver and bronze medal teams said they were essentially competing for second place. She, like teammate Laurie Hernandez, won her first gold medal at 16.
Lauren Hernandez and Madison Kocian joined Biles in taking home a gold from their first Olympics. Hernandez went undefeated in junior division all-arounds in 2015, winning four straight gold medals, including the junior all-around title at the national championships.
The 19-year-old is the reigning three-time all-around champion and a holder of a record ten world titles. “They think that they are doing gymnastics”, Raisman tells NBC.
That’s really good. Like, 2015 Serena Williams good or 2000 Tiger Woods good.
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Yesterday, the USA women’s gymnastics team won an Olympic gold medal by the largest margin ever recorded under the current scoring system, and they did so with panache, style, and slicked-back hair.
