no medal For ~ Simone Biles This time, stand on the balance beam. American gymnastics star During the balance beam finals, she slipped and fell off the apparatus at the end of the acrobatic series. 2024 Paris Olympics On Monday, she missed out on a chance to add to the bronze medals she won at the 2016 and 2020 Olympics.
Biles, wearing a white and blue leotard with more than 5,000 crystals, lost her balance after halfway through her set. The 27-year-old leapt off the beam and onto the mat, drawing a huge crowd of thousands, including NFL great Tom Brady, to a packed-out Busch Arena that chanted “ooooohh …
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Biles earned a score of 13.100, tying her American teammate Sunisa Lee for fourth place.
There was a long wait for her scores to be posted. At one point, Biles rolled her eyes on the medal stand, seemingly annoyed that she wouldn’t be able to finish.
Italy’s Alice D’Amato won gold with 14.366 points. China’s Zhou Yaqin won silver with 14.100 points, slightly ahead of bronze medalist Manila Esposito of Italy. Italy won silver after the United States. Team CompetitionI have never won a medal on the balance beam before.
Biles tied for fifth place with Lee. Lee’s long-held dream of a gold medal on the balance beam ended when she fell in the final leg of the acro series, and Biles did the same just minutes later.
The 21-year-old left Paris with three medals after just months in bed with chronic kidney disease.
The Olympics are over, but gall She will also compete in the floor final later Monday, an event she has never lost in a major international competition, including a gold medal in Rio de Janeiro eight years ago.
“It was frustrating because we both know what we can do,” Lee said. “She couldn’t do it today, but she still has the floor and she’s the GOAT, so she’s going to be great.”
Biles has a lot of history on the line in what could be the final competition of her career. Biles has won 10 Olympic medals, including seven golds. A medal in the floor final would tie her with Czechoslovakia’s Vera Caslavska for the second-most medals by a female gymnast in Olympic history, behind Soviet Union great Larisa Latynina’s 18.
Biles has remained relatively quiet about her future after the Paris Olympics, but has left the door open to a return if the Games are relocated to Los Angeles.
“Never say never,” Biles said after winning her second Olympic vault title on Saturday. “The next Olympics are at home, so you never know. I’m getting really old.”
