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Simone Biles’ seventh Olympic medal puts her into a tie with Shannon Miller as the most decorated US Olympic gymnast ever. It also matches the bronze she won on the balance beam at the Rio Games five years ago.
Additionally, Biles becomes the 10th gymnast of the Tokyo Games to win multiple medals.
Guan Chenchen of China, the top qualifier into today’s final, is the eighth and final gymnast to compete. An exquisite routine by the 16-year-old. A bit of hesitancy on some of the connections but the soaring difficulty ensures a huge number. This should certainly push Biles down to third and might be good enough for the gold. Waiting on the scores and …
… difficulty of 6.600 and execution of 8.033 for a total score of 14.633.