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Paris Olympics live updates: Simone Biles, Suni Lee look to lead USA to gold in women’s team gymnastics final – MASHAHER

ISLAM GAMAL30 July 2024Last Update :
Paris Olympics live updates: Simone Biles, Suni Lee look to lead USA to gold in women’s team gymnastics final – MASHAHER


With the last two individual all-around Olympic champions — Simone Biles and Suni Lee — finishing first and third in qualification, along with Jade Carey in fourth, Team USA is the favorite heading into the team final in women’s artistic gymnastics. After a silver medal finish in Tokyo, Team USA is looking to get back to the top of the medal stand, where they were in London in 2012 and Rio de Janeiro in 2016.

In fact, Team USA hasn’t missed the podium in the women’s artistic gymnastics team event since 1988. Biles and Lee, who will both look to become the first woman since 1968 to win two Olympic gold medals in the individual all-around, anchor the team, along with Carey, Tokyo Games silver medalist Jordan Chiles and Olympic rookie Hezly Rivera.

Stay with Yahoo Sports for full coverage of Team USA in the women’s team gymnastics final at the 2024 Paris Summer Olympic Games.

Live8 updates

  • Jordan Chiles is up first on vault, getting good height and with just a little hop on the landing. She scores 14.400, a great score to start things off for the U.S.

  • There are eight teams in total in today’s competition: USA, Italy, China, Brazil, Canada, Japan, Great Britain and Romania. Team USA will be rotating with Italy.

  • Each team selects three gymnasts for each event, and every score will be counted towards the team score. As a result, teams are likely to pick consistent performers on those events, and will finish with their ace.

    For Team USA, Simone Biles and Jordan Chiles will compete in all four events, demonstrating their consistency. Biles will anchor three of four events — vault, beam and floor, all three of which she is dominant in — and Suni Lee will anchor bars, her specialty.

  • Jade Carey, the reigning gold medalist in the floor exercise, struggled in qualifications and later revealed that she had been ill for a few days before the prelim round. Carey will compete on the vault today in the team event, but will leave the rest of the rotations to her teammates.

  • Biles had a message for America ahead of the gymnastics team final, which starts in 10 minutes

  • Simone Biles’ husband, Chicago Bears safety Jonathan Owens, will be in Paris to cheer the GOAT on

  • Simone Biles is and always has been tough

    And now, Yahoo Sports’ Dan Wetzel writes, she can prove that to the world — even though she doesn’t need to.

    Simone Biles, of United States, smiles after competing on the vault during a women's artistic gymnastics qualification round at Bercy Arena at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Sunday, July 28, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)Simone Biles, of United States, smiles after competing on the vault during a women's artistic gymnastics qualification round at Bercy Arena at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Sunday, July 28, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

    Simone Biles, of United States, smiles after competing on the vault during a women’s artistic gymnastics qualification round at Bercy Arena at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Sunday, July 28, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)




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