Simone Biles missed out on her fourth medal of Paris 2024 in the balance beam on Monday after she fell during her routine
Simone Biles missed out on her fourth medal of Paris 2024 – and her 11th Olympic medal overall – in the balance beam on Monday after she fell during her routine. The American, who had already won golds at these Games in the team, individual all-around and vault – finished in fifth place, one position ahead of her US teammate Suni Lee, who also fell.
The beam, which dares gymnasts to perform routines of extraordinary rigour on a platform 4ft above the ground and not much wider than a credit card, is the sport’s most precarious apparatus. On Monday in what can only be described as, at least half of the eight finalists fell victim to the discipline’s essential unpredictability.
Next was Lee, who put together a solid set until slipping on the last skill of her aerial series and splitting the beam in what appeared to be a very painful fall. She was consoled by longtime coach Jess Graba after completing her set for a score of 13.
The clouds had parted for Biles to win an eighth Olympic gold and first ever on the beam, but the 27-year-old walked backward and off the beam after a back handspring-layout stepout-layout stepout, a sequence she’s rarely erred on historically. Biles climbed back on and stuck her dismount then, after an interminable wait, she was given a score of 14.100, the same as Lee and out of the medals.
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