Simone Biles closed out with silver in the floor routine as Brazilian Rebeca Andrade won the gold with Jordan Chiles eventually awarded third place
USA gymnast Biles wins 11th Olympic medal of careerclosed out her final transcendent floor routine and saluted to the judges, she held her arms above her head in a salute for as long as she could. It was partly a cheeky, sarcastic gesture, a reference to the deduction she seemingly received in the preceding final for not properly saluting to all judges, but it was also perfect.
Much of the final day of gymnastics was a demonstration of how difficult and fraught elite gymnastics is. In the balance beam final, four gymnasts fell and another, the silver medallist Zhou Yaqin, lost her balance on a leap and put her hands down on the beam. As so many of her peers faltered, Italy’s Alice D’Amato produced a cool beam routine that would seal her first Olympic gold medal.
Although Biles’s first and third passes – her triple twisting double back somersault and the Biles – were both spectacular, Biles landed directly out of bounds on her second and fourth passes, which each incur a 0.3 deduction in addition to the landing deductions. Biles finished with a score of 14.
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