Men's high bar: Hashimoto wins another gold for Japan With that mistake, though, she took herself out of medal contention and finished the meet in fifth. She fought to hold on and somehow stayed on the beam. New all-around champion Suni Lee had a clean routine going until she lost her footing on the final landing of her difficult acro sequence. Aside from a few small form breaks, she was elegant and masterful and nailed her double pike landing. The 16-year-old topped qualifying and performed a routine with the highest difficulty in the meet. 066 lower than her qualifying score - moved her into second place.īiles remained in second until the final gymnast of the night, Guan Chenchen of China, mounted the beam. She hugged her coach, waved to the photographers and toward the crowd and hugged her teammate. When she landed her dismount, she took a big hop backward, a massive smile on her face and then grabbed her heart in relief. Unlike the other three events, beam features minimal twisting and Biles downgraded her dismount from the "Biles" - a double-twisting double tuck - to a double pike.īiles performed third in the event and took a deep breath before mounting the beam and performed with confidence. She continued to train at a nearby gym and shared her struggles to overcome "the twisties," a dangerous disconnect between the mind and body that causes gymnasts to become disoriented in the air during twisting skills. She withdrew from last Tuesday's team final after one rotation and then scratched from the all-around, vault, floor and uneven bar finals to focus on her mental and physical health. The story of the night was not what color medal Biles earned, but the fact that, after a week no one could have predicted, she returned to competition under the greatest of pressure and scrutiny and showed why she is the sport's greatest star.īiles last competed in Tokyo one week ago.
With this, her seventh Olympic medal, Biles becomes the most accomplished American Olympic gymnast in history. Simone Biles is a bronze medalist again, after matching her result in the balance beam final from Rio. We have you covered with all the action you might have missed as the curtain closed on the sport in Tokyo:īiles earns bronze, seventh career Olympic medal While each gymnast has seven medals to her name, Biles has more golds (4) than Miller (2).Īll-around gold medalist Suni Lee also competed on beam, finishing in fifth place with a score of 13.866. With the newest addition to her hardware collection, she ties Shannon Miller as the most decorated Olympian in American gymnastics history. Olympics medal tracker | Scheduleīiles also earned a bronze medal in beam at the 2016 Rio Games. The 24-year-old, who withdrew from the women's team final and other individual events to focus on her mental health upon experiencing the "twisties," earned a bronze medal on the balance beam with a strong performance and a score of 14.000. The final day of gymnastics event finals promised to be special as Simone Biles made her return to the competition floor - and it didn't disappoint.
Tuesday morning marked the last time we got to watch our favorite gymnasts compete at the Tokyo Olympic. Summer Olympics, Artistic Gymnastics, Gymnastics Olympic gymnastics updates: Simone Biles wins bronze on beam in last day of event finals
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