PARIS – The Best of All Time is the Olympic girls’s all-around champion as soon as once more.
Simone Biles gained her second Olympic title within the girls’s all-around on Thursday inside Bercy Area, scoring a 59.131. The win comes three years after she needed to withdraw from the Tokyo all-around closing as a result of twisties. Biles gained the 2016 Olympic all-around title, and together with her win, turns into the primary gymnast since Vera Caslavska (’64, ’68) to win two Olympic all-around titles – she’s solely the third gymnast to ever obtain the feat. Biles is the primary lady to win non-consecutive Olympic all-around titles. That is her ninth Olympic medal, making her essentially the most embellished American gymnast in Olympic historical past.
Brazil’s Rebeca Andrade repeated as silver medalist with a 57.932, and Sunisa Lee (USA) gained the bronze (56.465).
Biles began her night time on vault throwing the Yurchenko double pike, aka the Biles II, and scoring a 15.766. The selection to throw the Biles II as a substitute of the Cheng ended up giving her room to breathe in opposition to Andrade, her most formidable opponent in a decade. Within the subsequent rotation on bars, she made a significant error on her Pak salto (13.733), dropping roughly seven-tenths on her common to date in Paris.
After the error on bars, she trailed Andrade by rather less than three-tenths. Regardless of having the higher hand on beam and flooring, Biles was seen seemingly meditating and later admitted she was burdened.
“I used to be most likely praying to each single god on the market attempting to refocus and recenter myself as a result of that’s not the bars that I had been coaching.” She added shortly after, “I’m not the very best bars swinger like Suni or Kaylia, however I can swing some bars!”
On beam, Biles received again on observe, scoring a 14.566 and regaining the lead. She closed issues out as the ultimate competitor of the meet on flooring, scoring a 15.066 – her highest flooring rating in Paris to date – and blowing the group her signature kiss, which was noticeably larger than regular.
After the meet, she gave Andrade her flowers by calling her a “phenomenal” athlete and saying she needed to deliver out the “large weapons” with the Yurchenko double pike.
“I don’t wish to compete with Rebeca no extra,” Biles stated with endearment. “I’m drained. She’s method too shut. I’ve by no means had an athlete that shut, so it undoubtedly put me on my toes and it introduced out the very best athlete in myself. So I’m excited and proud to compete together with her however… uh-uh, I don’t prefer it no extra…. I’m getting uncomfortable guys. I don’t like that feeling – I used to be STRESSING.”
There have been indications that Biles is retiring after Paris, however one other one got here Thursday contained in the press convention room of Bercy, when she appeared to move the torch to Andrade.
“I’ve by no means been so STRESSED earlier than – thanks, Rebeca – but it surely’s good,” Biles stated. “I’m gonna hand it to her now; she will be able to have the remainder.”
Nevertheless it appears Andrade could have additionally simply competed her final all-around meet.
“I believe the all-around particular person requires so much from us – from my legs, my knees, the remainder of my complete physique, however the future belongs to God,” Andrade stated by means of a translator. “It will depend on how I really feel sooner or later, how my physique feels, how I really feel mentally. I’ve labored so much on the psychological aspect of issues. I wished at the moment to be a particular competitors, and it was. I believe this will likely be my goodbye to the person all-around.”
It is smart that the 25-year-old would wish to give her physique a relaxation, particularly after struggling three ACL tears in her profession. Andrade is already one of many all-time greats and has made historical past for Brazil time and time once more, main the nation to its first Olympic staff medal in gymnastics with the bronze earlier this week.
As for Lee, it’s unimaginable to not be in awe of what the 2020 Olympic champion has gone by means of prior to now three years to return to the rostrum. After being recognized with, battling, and going into remission from two sorts of kidney illness prior to now 12 months, Lee labored her method again to competing all 4 occasions. She solely added flooring again lower than three months in the past.
“Actually, six months in the past I didn’t even take into account I’d be right here competing at the moment,” Lee stated. “That was an achievement in itself. Truthfully, I wasn’t anticipating to be on the rostrum. To simply be right here has been completely superb. And I don’t know if you happen to guys might inform, however I undoubtedly received a bit emotional after my flooring routine. Simply seeing the rating come up was simply insane.”
Rounding out the highest 10 have been Alice D’Amato (ITA), Kaylia Nemour (ALG), Ellie Black (CAN), Qiu Qiyuan (CHN), Helen Kevric (GER), Flavia Saraiva (BRA), and Naomi Visser (NED).
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Thu. August 1 @ 8:36 p.m.
FINAL from Bercy!
Thu. August 1 @ 8:27 p.m.
Simone Biles (USA) FX: Can she turn into Olympic champion as soon as once more? Triple-double, single step again, HUGE as at all times. Punch entrance full by means of to tucked double-double, small hop. Double wolf flip, clear. Double structure half, no stag, appears to maintain it in bounds. Double structure, small hop. The BIGGEST KISS to the group. OLYMPIC CHAMPION ONCE AGAIN! 15.066!
Thu. August 1 @ 8:22 p.m.
Rebeca Andrade (BRA) FX: Punch entrance full by means of to full-twisting double again, giant step out of bounds. Full-twisting double structure, stutter step again. Double Y-turn to stag. Double structure, practically caught, smallest of hops ahead. Double pike, giant hop and a step again, however retains it in bounds. 14.033 – into first!
Thu. August 1 @ 8:20 p.m.
Sunisa Lee will want the ground of her life to surpass Alice, who’s in bronze medal place at this level… The reigning Olympic flooring champion! Imagine she wants a 13.535 or higher? STUCK full-twisting double structure. 1.5 to entrance full, small hop ahead. Double L-turn to full flip. Triple wolf flip. On the finish of this, it doesn’t matter what occurs, Suni has overcome a lot. Double again, bit under-rotated, hop ahead, and I believe that’s the LOUDEST this area has gotten all night time. IT’S A 13.666 – SUNI IS GOING TO BE ON THE PODIUM!!
Thu. August 1 @ 8:11 p.m.
Kaylia Nemour (ALG) FX: Double structure, low chest however mainly caught. 1.5 by means of to triple twist, step to the aspect, and gave the impression to be rightttt on the road. Possibly -0.1. Double wolf flip. Laid-out Arabian by means of to double pike, step ahead. 13.100 – into 2nd.
Thu. August 1 @ 8:05 p.m.
Manila Esposito (ITA) FX: Triple wolf flip. Double structure, too brief, falls to her knees. Simply not Manila’s day sadly. 12.733.
Alice D’Amato (ITA) FX = 13.500
Thu. August 1 @ 7:55 p.m.
With one to go, Simone Biles is within the lead by 0.166! Rebeca Andrade in second. Alice D’Amato third. Kaylia Nemour and Sunisa Lee TIED!
Thu. August 1 @ 7:47 p.m.
Rebeca Andrade (BRA) BB: Swap leap mount. Swap leap to modify half to separate leap, glorious. Again handspring to structure, large leg up verify. Entrance aerial to ring leap to again handspring, stable. Swap ring, step again. Facet aerial, good. Full flip. You possibly can hear Simone say, “You bought it!” Double pike, hop ahead. 14.133 – into second.
Thu. August 1 @ 7:43 p.m.
Sunisa Lee (USA) BB: Straddle mount. Triple wolf flip, clear. Entrance aerial, leg up, misses the connection to the leap to again handspring. Swap leap to modify half to ring leap, clear. Facet aerial to structure stepout to structure stepout, hits it. Swap ring, small bobble. Pike gainer full, bittt brief, has to take a step ahead. 14.000.
Thu. August 1 @ 7:39 p.m.
Flavia Saraiva (BRA) FX: Caught double structure, everybody instantly into it! Double again, large rebound, slips and falls to her chest – devastating.
Thu. August 1 @ 7:38 p.m.
Kaylia Nemour (ALG) BB: Roundoff structure mount to structure. Again handspring to two-footed structure, nearly comes off, however fightsssss. Double wolf flip, glorious. Facet aerial. Swap leap to modify half, bit low. Entrance aerial, most likely gained’t get connection for the break up leap to again swing down. Double pike, single step. 13.033 – inquiry submitted, accepted – 13.233!
Manila Esposito (ITA) = 14.200
Thu. August 1 @ 7:27 p.m.
Simone Biles (USA) BB: Swap leap mount. Swap leap to modify half to again pike, excellent. Triple wolf flip, at all times appears a bit tedious. Entrance aerial to separate leap to straddle leap. Again handspring to structure stepout to structure stepout, excellent. Facet aerial, little bit of an arm swing. Full-twisting double again, small hop again. Again on observe! Provides Cecile an enormous hug, after which goes over to Laurent who isn’t “on the ground” however behind the ropes and provides him a hug too. 14.566 – about what she’s been scoring right here.
Thu. August 1 @ 7:19 p.m.
Midway by means of!
Thu. August 1 @ 7:15 p.m.
Rating replace:
- Alice D’Amato (ITA) UB = 14.800
- Qiu Qiyuan (CHN) BB = 14.500
- Ou Yushan (CHN) BB = 14.033
- Flavia Saraiva (BRA) BB = 14.266 – inquiry submitted, unchanged
- Ana Barbosu (ROU) FX = 13.566
- Naomi Visser (NED) FX = 13.400
Thu. August 1 @ 7:12 p.m.
Sunisa Lee (USA) UB: Toe-on laid-out Tkatchev (Nabieva) to Bhardwaj. Van Leeuwen. Quick on the following handstand. Blind change to straddle Jaeger to Pak to Maloney to Gienger. Large 1/1. Tucked full-twisting double again, practically caught, fast step out and salute. 14.866.
Thu. August 1 @ 7:06 p.m.
Kaylia Nemour (ALG) UB: Nearly goes over on a handstand partway by means of however fights for it, shortly will get the swing again, and moreover that, the set is phenomenal as at all times. She has been so constant! 15.533 – jumps forward of Biles!
Thu. August 1 @ 7:01 p.m.
Manila Esposito (ITA) off on bars.
Thu. August 1 @ 7:01 p.m.
Andrade now forward of Biles by 0.267. Biles misplaced roughly 7 to eight tenths with that mistake. She nonetheless has the upperhand on beam and flooring, however she will be able to’t afford anymore main errors.
Thu. August 1 @ 6:59 p.m.
Simone Biles (USA) UB: Weiler half to Maloney to large 1/1 to piked Tkatchev to Pak, and the catch is bizarre, she bends her legs and loses the swing, don’t know if she brushed the mat – it doesn’t look like she did? Re-kips and finishes her regular set. Toe 1/1 to caught tucked double-double. 13.733 – in comparison with 14.433 and 14.400 earlier this week. May’ve been so much worse. Appears she new issues have been off and saved her legs bent to keep away from brushing the mat.
Thu. August 1 @ 6:53 p.m.
Rebeca Andrade (BRA) UB: Maloney to stalder 1/1 to piked Tkatchev to Pak to Van Leeuwen. Blind change to piked Jaeger. Toe 1/1 to full-twisting double again, small hop. No double-double at the moment, however she does join the Pak to Van Leeuwen and total a surprising set from Rebe! 14.666!
Thu. August 1 @ 6:51 p.m.
Ellie Black (CAN) off on beam.
Thu. August 1 @ 6:48 p.m.
After Rotation 1!
Thu. August 1 @ 6:45 p.m.
Flavia Saraiva (BRA) UB: Flavia the warrior nonetheless has her eyebrow bandaged after busting it open within the contact on bars through the staff closing. Toe 1/1 to piked Tkatchev to Pak. Toe-on. Maloney to Gienger. Blind change. Double entrance, small hop again. 13.900.
Thu. August 1 @ 6:40 p.m.
Another scores:
- Ellie Black (CAN) UB = 14.066
- Haruka Nakamura (JPN) BB = 13.700
- Helen Kevric (GER) BB = 13.400
Thu. August 1 @ 6:35 p.m.
Kaylia Nemour (ALG) VT: A podium contender little question! And all of it begins with this vault – glorious double-twisting Yurchenko by means of the air, step again. 14.033.
Thu. August 1 @ 6:34 p.m.
Manila Esposito (ITA) VT: Double-twisting Yurchenko, nice touchdown, small hop ahead. 13.866.
Luisa Blanco (COL) FX: That is most definitely Luisa’s closing meet ever – she slid into this closing however indicated after qualifying that that will most likely be it earlier than she ended up qualifying. Double again small hop again. Rudi to stag. Double pike. 12.700.
Thu. August 1 @ 6:33 p.m.
Alice D’Amato (ITA) VT: Lovely double-twisting Yurchenko, gorgeous! 14.000.
Qiu Qiyuan (CHN) off on bars.
Thu. August 1 @ 6:29 p.m.
Simone Biles (USA) VT: Yurchenko double pike, large by means of the air, giant sliding step again. That vault vs. the Cheng offers her a littleee extra respiration room. 15.766 – 9.366 E-score!
Thu. August 1 @ 6:28 p.m.
Rebeca Andrade (BRA) VT: STUCK Cheng. She takes a fast single step when she salutes, however she held on for that. 15.100 – 9.5 E-score!
Thu. August 1 @ 6:23 p.m.
Suni Lee (USA) VT: Double-twisting Yurchenko, off to the aspect a bit, on the road, hop again. 13.933.
Fall from Ana Barbosu on beam.
Thu. August 1 @ 6:21 p.m.
Simone warmed up the YDP! She’s going BIG! Stored it on her toes. Couple steps again.
Thu. August 1 @ 6:17 p.m.
Rotation 1 contact beginning now. Suni will likely be up first on vault, adopted by Rebeca, then Simone.
Thu. August 1 @ 6:12 p.m.
Intros occurring now!
Thu. August 1 @ 5:56 p.m.
Nadia Comaneci is in the home, getting interviewed for the group. She’s speaking about how glad she is to see girls’s sports activities booming and that this video games is 50/50. Plus, she had a message for the group in French!
Thu. August 1 @ 4:54 p.m.
Tonight, the apparent favourite for the title is Simone Biles – the 2016 Olympic champion and reigning world champion. A lot has been made about Brazil’s Rebeca Andrade, Biles’ most formidable opponent. The duo most lately confronted off as people at 2023 worlds, the place Biles bested Andrade by 1.633 factors within the all-around – a major margin, to be clear. In occasion finals, Biles beat Andrade on beam and flooring, however Andrade was capable of surpass Biles on vault after she fell on her Yurchenko double pike.
In Paris to date, Biles and Andrade have each competed the all-around throughout qualifying and the staff closing. In qualifying, Biles bested Andrade by 1.866 factors, with the Yurchenko double pike as her vault. Within the staff closing, Biles opted to do the Cheng as a substitute of the YDP for security causes regarding the calf damage that flared up throughout qualifying. She went on to attain 0.366 greater than Andrade throughout all 4.
In each meets to date, Andrade hasn’t opted to throw the upgrades that she confirmed in podium coaching throughout all 4 occasions (besides the triple-twisting Yurchenko, which we haven’t seen but, however she submitted). The staff closing was the closest Andrade has gotten to Biles, with Andrade having the most effective meets of her profession to guide Brazil to a historic bronze.
Biles continues to be the favourite tonight – YDP or not – however numerous elements will decide how shut this meet will likely be. Will Biles go for the YDP? She doesn’t want to, however it’ll give her some respiration room proper out of the gate. Will Andrade throw some or all of her upgrades? She’ll must if she actually needs to problem Biles, or else she’ll must repeat her staff closing efficiency and Biles should make main errors.
Past the pleasant rivalry between Biles and Andrade, which, we are able to’t reiterate sufficient, is pleasant – the 2 girls have proven time and time once more they respect one another and have a great friendship – 2020 Olympic all-around champion Sunisa Lee certified third and is trying to make an inspiring return to the rostrum. She’s absolutely able to bronze, and even silver relying on how the night time goes (she’d need assistance from Andrade). It might be one other triumph for the now four-time Olympic medalist, who was recognized with two sorts of kidney illness final 12 months, and has labored diligently to care for her physique, enter remission, and return to her 2021 kind, if not higher.
Lee’s hardest competitors for the bronze is Algeria’s Kaylia Nemour, who certified lower than two-tenths again and introduced an upgraded double-twisting Yurchenko to Paris. Nemour’s story is exclusive in the truth that she was born in France and represented the nation till 2021, when she underwent two surgical procedures after creating osteochondritis. Nemour was cleared by her private physician to return to competitors in 2022, her first 12 months as a senior, however the French nationwide staff physician wouldn’t clear her. The French Gymnastics Federation additionally wished her to depart her membership and transfer to Paris to coach, which Nemour didn’t wish to do, so she opted to alter her nationality to Algeria, the place her father is from. The nationality change was accredited by July of 2022, however the French federation refused to simply accept the change, which might imply she wouldn’t be eligible till a 12 months later, in July 2023. Nemour wished to compete on the African championships in Could to qualify to Worlds to then be capable of qualify to the Olympics. After 10 months of the French federation refusing to launch Nemour, a report got here out documenting abuse inside the French federation, which led to the federation releasing Nemour simply two weeks earlier than the African championships. She would go on to win the African all-around title. Nemour booked her ticket to Paris primarily based on her all-around efficiency at 2023 Worlds in Antwerp, Belgium. She additionally gained the silver medal on uneven bars there. In Paris, Nemour is the favourite for the bars title after qualifying over China’s Qiu Qiyuan, the reigning world champion, by greater than half some extent.
Thu. August 1 @ 2:32 p.m.
The highest group tonight consists of Simone Biles (USA), Rebeca Andrade (BRA), Sunisa Lee (USA), Kaylia Nemour (ALG), Alice D’Amato (ITA), and Manila Esposito (ITA).
Thu. August 1 @ 2:30 p.m.
We’re dwell inside Bercy Area for the ladies’s all-around closing on the 2024 Paris Olympic Video games! Competitors begins at 6:15 p.m. CEST/12:15 p.m. EDT. See the highest of the web page for key hyperlinks, dwell scoring, and extra.
