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(NEXSTAR) — Fresh disconnected their golden medal successful squad competition connected Tuesday, Simone Biles and the U.S. women's gymnasts took to the mat Thursday to vie for all-around gold.
Biles, 27, entered the lawsuit hoping to go the oldest women's all-around champion since 1952. She besides came successful with an 11-year unbeaten streak successful the all-around successful meets she has started and finished into the finals.
After a show lone Biles could propulsion off, her streak volition unrecorded on.
Biles jumped retired to a speedy pb connected the vault, scoring 15.766, pushing her up of Brazilian prima Rebeca Andrade. The pb was fleeting though, aft a miscue threw disconnected Biles' momentum connected the uneven bars, prompting a people of 13.733.
That dropped her to 3rd spot down Andrade and France's Kaylia Nemour heading into the equilibrium beam.
Biles near the beam, seemingly exhaling a suspiration of relief, aft a seemingly palmy regular that earned her a 14.566. It bumped her to the pb partway done rotation three.
It was the level workout that yet ended the golden medal hunt.
Lee — who needed to implicit the "routine of her lifetime" to medal, according to erstwhile Olympian Laurie Hernandez, who was calling the lawsuit connected NBC's broadcast — landed a 13.666 people connected the floor. That guaranteed her a medal earlier Biles adjacent touched the floor.
Biles took the level past connected Thursday. Heading successful with a people of 44.065, she needed to support her pb from the archetypal 3 events. More specifically, she needed to people astatine slightest 13.867 connected the level to unafraid the apical spot.
After a Biles-like routine, scoring her a 15.066, the 27-year-old did conscionable that.
Simone Biles, of the United States, performs connected the equilibrium beam during the women's creator gymnastics all-around finals successful Bercy Arena astatine the 2024 Summer Olympics, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024, successful Paris, France. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Simone Biles, of the United States, performs connected the level during the women's creator gymnastics all-around finals successful Bercy Arena astatine the 2024 Summer Olympics, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024, successful Paris, France. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
Simone Biles, of the United States, performs connected the level during the women's creator gymnastics all-around finals successful Bercy Arena astatine the 2024 Summer Olympics, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024, successful Paris, France. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Simone Biles, top, celebrates with teammate Suni Lee, of the United States, during the women's creator gymnastics all-around finals successful Bercy Arena astatine the 2024 Summer Olympics, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024, successful Paris, France. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr)
Simone Biles, of the United States, celebrates aft winning the golden medal successful the women's creator gymnastics all-around finals successful Bercy Arena astatine the 2024 Summer Olympics, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024, successful Paris, France. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Lee earned bronze, coming successful down Brazil's Andrade.
This marks Biles' sixth Olympic golden medal, the third-most successful women's gymnastics history. She is besides the archetypal pistillate to assertion aggregate Olympic all-around golds since Vera Caslavska of Czechoslovakia went back-to-back successful 1964 and 1968.
Many person questioned whether this volition beryllium Biles' last. She has been quiescent astir her future, saying her absorption aft leaving Paris volition beryllium connected the post-Olympic circuit she headlines. Biles is besides joined and has talked openly astir the fearfulness of missing retired connected beingness milestones due to the fact that of her clip successful the gym.
Still, Cecile Landi — who has coached Biles with her hubby Laurent since precocious 2017 — possibly offered a small spot of penetration aft the American women won squad golden Tuesday.
“She wanted to rewrite her story, the end,” Landi said, earlier adding a tiny asterisk.
“Well, that’s what she says now.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
