Gymnastics

Simone Biles wasn't a fan of the quiet atmosphere during the balance beam final on Monday at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

"It was really weird and awkward, and we've asked several times if we can have some music or some background noise," Biles told reporters. "So, I am not really sure what happened there. But yeah, not our favorite. None of us liked it."

Biles fell off the beam on Monday, although she still finished strong.

Simone Biles finishes strong in the balance beam final. #ParisOlympics

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— NBC Olympics & Paralympics (@NBCOlympics) August 5, 2024

However, she did not make the podium after finishing in a tie for fifth with a score of 13.100.

Italy's Alice D'Amato earned a gold medal on the beam with a score of 14.366, while Zhou Yaqin of China took home silver. Italian gymnast Manila Esposito secured a bronze. With her finish on top of the podium, D'Amato became the first Olympic gold medalist for Italy in women's gymnastics.

While Biles struggled during the beam final, she was still satisfied with her overall performance at the 2024 Games.

"I accomplished way more than my wildest dreams—not just at this Olympics, but in this sport," she said, per Kyle Feldscher of CNN. "So I can't be mad at my performances. A couple years ago, I didn't think I'd be back here at an Olympic Games, so competing and then walking away with four medals, I'm not mad about it. I'm pretty proud of myself."

She secured a silver medal during Monday's floor routine final, representing a slight disappointment given her historic dominance in the event. Still, she ended the Paris Olympics with three gold medals to bring her overall 2024 total to four.

What else can we say except SIMONE BILES? 😲 #ParisOlympics

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— NBC Olympics & Paralympics (@NBCOlympics) August 5, 2024

Biles' 11 career Olympic medals, including seven gold, tied Czechoslovakia's Vera Caslavska for the second-most by a female gymnast in Olympic history (h/t ESPN).

While Biles is currently 27 years old, she still hasn't ruled out competing during the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. If she attempts to secure a beam medal once again, the environment could be different in front of a U.S. crowd.

Carlos Edriel Yulo's historic 2024 Paris Olympics run for the Philippines continued Sunday in the men's vault final.

Less than 24 hours after his championship floor routine made him the first male Olympic champion in Filipino history, Yulo won the vault competition with an average score of 15.116.

HE'S DONE IT AGAIN! 🇵🇭
Carlos Yulo is a two-time Olympic champion! Two golds in two days! 🥇🥇 pic.twitter.com/iZHuQrDv2o

— The Olympic Games (@Olympics) August 4, 2024

Here are the scores from Sunday's final.

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Men's vault final results

1. Carlos Edriel Yulo, Philippines: 15.116
   
2. Artur Davtyan, Armenia: 14.966
   
3. Harry Hepworth, Great Britain: 14.949
   
4. Jake Jarman, Great Britain: 14.933
   
5. Aurel Benovic, Croatia: 14.900
   
6. Nazar Chepurnyi, Ukraine: 14.899
   
7. Mahdi Olfati, Iran: 14.266
   
8. Igor Radivilov, Ukraine: 14.166

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Yulo finished atop the rankings after scoring 15.433 on his first jump, followed by a 14.800 on his second.

This is becoming a breakout Olympics for Yulo, who made his Olympic debut at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in 2021 but finished 0.017 points shy of a bronze medal in the vault competition.

Yulo wasn't the only gymnast who made history for his country during Sunday's vault final.

Artur Davtyan won Armenia's first medal of the 2024 Games with twin scores of 14.966. He also earned a spot on the podium in Tokyo, where he earned bronze to edge Yulo off the podium in 2021.

Great Britain's Harry Hepworth meanwhile marked a 14.833 on his first vault, followed by a 15.066 on his second leap, to earn his country's first Olympic medal in the men's vault competition. This honor was Hepworth's first medal in the 20-year-old's Olympic debut.

Jake Jarman, also representing Team Great Britain, remained in bronze medal position until Devtyan knocked him off the podium with the last vault of the day.

Team USA gymnast Suni Lee has claimed a second bronze Olympic medal on the women's uneven bars.

Lee marked a score of 14.800 during Sunday's finals to add another medal to the bronze she won at the 2020 Tokyo Games that took place in 2021.

Suni Lee wins an uneven bars bronze medal with a fantastic routine in the final! #ParisOlympics

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— NBC Olympics & Paralympics (@NBCOlympics) August 4, 2024

Algeria's Kaylia Nemour claimed gold with a score of 15.700, while Qiyuan Qiu won silver with a 15.500.

Lee narrowly edged Nina Derwael and her score of 14.766 off the podium as the Belgian finished fourth.

This marked Lee's second strong performance on the uneven bars in Paris. She ranked second among uneven bar competitors on her way to bronze in the women's individual all-around competition earlier this week.

Lee's podium finish Sunday marked the next step in her comeback from multiple kidney disease diagnoses that threatened the derail her gymnastics career.

Those diagnoses led the 21-year-old to step away from her gymnastics career at Auburn in April 2023.

Just over one year later, Lee's comeback has led her to three medals at the 2024 Games, including a team gold.

She will now have the chance to win her fourth medal of the 2024 Games when the balance beam finals take place on Monday.

China's Liu Yang is still the gold standard when it comes to the men's ring competition at the Olympics.

The star gymnast successfully defended the gold he won in the 2020 Tokyo Games with another victory in Sunday's competition in the 2024 Paris Games. He posted a score of 15.300 to defeat his Chinese teammate, Zou Jingyuan, and Greece's Eleftherios Petrounias.

Zou took home the silver with a score of 15.233, while Petrounias captured the bronze at 15.100.

Here is a look at the full results:

1. Liu Yang, China: 15.300
2. Zou Jingyuan, China: 15.233
   
3. Eleftherios Petrounias, Greece: 15.100
   
4. Samir Aït Saïd, France: 15.000
   
5. Adem Asil, Türkiye: 14.966
6. Vahagn Davtyan, Armenia: 14.866
7. Harry Hepworth, Great Britain: 14.800
8. Glen Cuyle, Belgium: 13.833

The contest between Liu and Zou couldn't have been closer coming in, as the former was the reigning gold medalist and the latter topped the standings after the qualification round. What's more, they each came into Sunday's final with difficulty scores of 6.400, which meant it came down to the execution.

And Liu executed slightly better with a score of 8.900 compared to the silver medalist's 8.833 mark.

Liu Yang defends his title! 🥇🥇#Paris2024 | #Gymnastics pic.twitter.com/vxhin9Yktj

— FIG (@gymnastics) August 4, 2024

The gold and silver medalists weren't the only ones who impressed in Sunday's competition.

Petrounias added to his lengthy Olympic resume with a bronze thanks to his difficulty score of 6.300. That was higher than the difficulty score of 6.100 for France's Samir Aït Saïd, which allowed a small margin of error on execution for the Greek.

That proved important, as he finished with a score of 15.100 to win the bronze by .100.

Petrounias also won gold in the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games and bronze in Tokyo.

The three medal winners prevailed in an eight-man final that did not include any Americans in the field. While the United States women have dominated the gymnastics competitions in Paris, nobody from the United States was able to qualify for Sunday's rings final.

American gymnast Stephen Nedoroscik won bronze in the Saturday final of the men's pommel horse competition at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Nedoroscik scored 15.300 to earn a place on the podium.

Stephen Nedoroscik finishes his pommel horse routine in the final and the crowd goes WILD! 👏 #ParisOlympics

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— NBC Olympics & Paralympics (@NBCOlympics) August 3, 2024

Nedoroscik's score knocked two-time Olympic champion Max Whitlock off the podium and put him in third place with three competitors left to go.

Ireland's Rhys McClenaghan earned gold, while Nariman Kurbanov of Kazakhstan claimed silver.

OUR FRIEND STEVE WON BRONZE IN POMMEL HORSE. 🥉

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— NBC Olympics & Paralympics (@NBCOlympics) August 3, 2024

The full results of Saturday's final are below.

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Men's pommel horse final results

1. Rhys McClenaghan, Ireland (15.533)
2. Nariman Kurbanov, Kazakhstan (15.433)
3. Stephen Nedoroscik, United States (15.300)
4. Max Whitlock, Great Britain (15.200)
5. Oleg Verniaiev, Ukraine (14.966)
6. Takaaki Sugino, Japan (14.933)
7. Hur Woong, South Korea (14.300)
8. Loran de Munck, Netherlands (13.733)

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Kurbanov performed first and set the bar high with a 15.433, beating out all qualifying scores.

Nedoroscik had previously qualified for the competition by tying McClenaghan's qualifiers-leading 15.200 score.

Whitlock performed after Kurbanov, but a break in form left Britain's most decorated gymnast off the podium in what he says will be the final Olympic appearance of his career.

McClenaghan became the first Irish gymnast to win an Olympic medal with his routine. The win represented redemption for McClenaghan after he finished seventh during 2020 Tokyo Games after coming off the pommel horse.

Gold Medalist and Olympic Champion Rhys McClenaghan 🥇#RTEOlympics #Paris2024 #TeamIreland pic.twitter.com/zOhBNAVTRv

— RTÉ2 (@RTE2) August 3, 2024

Nedoroscik earned his second bronze medal of the Olympics after his pommel horse routine also helped Team USA claim bronze in the men's team competition.

The former Penn State gymnast will add his two bronze medals to a list of accomplishments including a 2021 world championship and two NCAA titles.

Simone Biles continues to shine bright in the City of Light.

The U.S. gymnast secured her third gold medal of the 2024 Paris Summer with an electric performance in the women's vault final.

OH WOW. 🤩

Simone Biles just NAILED this vault in the final! #ParisOlympics

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— NBC Olympics & Paralympics (@NBCOlympics) August 3, 2024

Jonathan Owens had to HYPE UP Simone Biles after winning her third gold medal 🥇❤️

Too wholesome 👏

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— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) August 3, 2024

She scored a cumulative score of 15.300, which was 0.334 points ahead of silver medalist Rebeca Andrade of Brazil. The close margin between Biles and Andrade was something that Biles acknowledged following the final.

Simone says she’s “never had an athlete that close” when it comes to competing with Rebeca Andrade 💯

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— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) August 3, 2024

Biles' finish earned her the seventh gold medal of her Olympic career. Jade Carey of the United States rounded out the podium, capturing bronze. It represents Carey's third career medal and first bronze.

Biles moves into second place all-time for most Olympic gymnastics gold medals, tying Věra Čáslavská, who earned seven while competing for Czechoslovakia in 1960, 1964 and 1968. Larisa Latynina holds the record of nine gold medals, which she earned for the Soviet Union in 1956, 1960 and 1964.

Tying that record is within reach for Biles, as she still has two events remaining at the Paris Olympics. If she can earn gold in both, it will exceed her total of four golds in 2016 and will also put her in a tie with Latynina at nine.

Biles will attempt to add to her historic career on Monday when she competes in the balance beam and floor exercise finals.

Carlos Edriel Yulo made history Saturday as the first man from the Philippines to win Olympic gold in the men's floor exercise finals.

Yulo earned a score of 15.000 for his floor exercise routine, which was highlighted by a three-and-a-half twist dismount, to become the first Filipino gymnast to stand on an Olympic podium.

Carlos Yulo secures Philippines first GOLD medal at #Paris2024! 🇵🇭🥇 pic.twitter.com/naCxfMpDMw

— The Olympic Games (@Olympics) August 3, 2024

Israel's Artem Dolgopyat, the defending champion in the event, finished just behind to earn silver for his 14.966 score.

Great Britain's Jake Jarman, a reserve athlete in Tokyo who made his Olympic debut in Paris, claimed bronze with his score of 14.933.

The full final results are below.

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Men's floor final results

1. Carlos Edriel Yulo, Philippines: 15.000
2. Artem Dolgopyat, Israel: 14.966
3. Jake Jarman, Great Britain: 14.933
4. Illia Kovtun, Ukraine: 14.533
5. Milad Karimi, Kazakhstan: 14.500
6. Luke Whitehouse, Great Britain: 14.466
7. Zapata Rayderley, Spain: 14.333
8. Boheng Zhang, China: 13.933

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Ukraine's Illia Kovtun was edged off the podium and claimed a fourth-place finish. His quest for a first Olympic medal will continue.

Great Britain's Luke Whitehouse, expected to be a favorite to challenge for gold, finished sixth in his first Olympics.

The difficulty of Yulo's routine helped him join Hidilyn Diaz, a weightlifter who won gold the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, as the only Olympic gold medalists from his country.

Yulo now will have the chance to make more history on Sunday when he competes for another gold during the men's vault finals in Paris.

As Simone Biles dominates the mats at the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics, memorabilia from Olympics past still carry significant value.

A trading card from her 2016 Rio Summer Olympics sold for a record value of $2,500 on eBay on Saturday night. The Topps card features an autograph from the gymnast and shows her biting into a gold medal that she earned in the cycle.

New record for a @Simone_Biles card tonight, as this Olympic Gold Auto /15 sells for $2,500 on eBay. pic.twitter.com/JIk2xV7DFe

— cllct (@cllctMedia) August 3, 2024

2016 was Biles' first Olympics and she burst onto the scene with authority. She earned four golds and one bronze medal during the competition. She would earn an additional silver during the 2020 Summer Olympics and has re-emerged once again in 2024.

She currently has won two gold medals, one alongside her U.S. teammates and the other coming in the All-Around competition. She will have a few more chances to earn additional medals as well.

She is set to compete in the vault final on Sunday and will finish her Olympic slate on Monday with the balance beam and floor exercise finals. If she were to win gold in all three events, she would exceed her total from 2016.

In the time since winning gold in best all-around at the Tokyo Olympics, United States gymnastics star Suni Lee has had plenty to overcome.

Despite being diagnosed with multiple kidney diseases in March of last year, Lee pushed through the adversity and is once again an Olympic medalist. She won bronze in best all-around on Thursday, with her teammate Simone Biles taking home gold.

"I just wanted to prove to myself that I could do it because I didn't think that I could," Lee said, per the Associated Press (h/t ESPN).

Lee edged out Italy's Alice D'Amato by a tenth of a point on Thursday to win her fifth medal after scoring a 13.933 in vault, 14.866 in uneven bars, 14.000 in balance beam and 13.666 in floor routine.

The performance followed Lee and the United States taking gold in team performance earlier this week and redeeming their silver medal finish at the 2020 Olympics.

While Lee is still chasing Biles, who made herself arguably one of the greatest American Olympians ever with her performance on Thursday, the 21-year-old still has plenty of time to continue racking up accomplishments in her young career.

Lee will represent the United States in the bars final on Sunday before rounding out the Olympics in the beam final on Monday.

Despite making history on Thursday by winning her sixth gymnastics gold medal in the Olympics, Simone Biles is still surprised to be in the discussion for the Greatest of All Time title.

"It is crazy that I am in the conversation of 'Greatest of all athletes' because I just still think, 'I'm Simone Biles from Spring, Texas who loves to flip,'" Biles said, via the Associated Press (h/t ESPN).

After her victory in the all-around women's final, the 27-year-old showed off a goat chain underneath her gold medal.

Simone Biles rocking a goat chain under her gold medal is too tough 😤🐐 pic.twitter.com/C2VrINDWzG

— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) August 1, 2024

She also received praise from her fellow U.S. athletes, as the men's basketball team showed up to watch Thursday's final. Kevin Durant also referred to Biles as the GOAT in a post on X during her performance.

Goat Biles

— Kevin Durant (@KDTrey5) August 1, 2024

USA men’s basketball is enjoying the show in Paris at the women’s all-around final. ⭐️ #ParisOlympics

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— NBC Olympics & Paralympics (@NBCOlympics) August 1, 2024

She became the first woman to win the all-around individual gold twice since Věra Čáslavská in 1968. Biles is also the oldest woman to win gold in the event since 1952.

She started strong on Thursday with her signature Yurchenko double pike vault, although she wrapped up a relatively disappointing performance on the uneven bars that put her out of first place through two rotations.

Biles bounced back with an impressive 14.566 score on the balance beam before she cemented the win by thriving during her floor routine.

Stop what you’re doing right NOW and watch Simone Biles on floor! 🐐 #ParisOlympics

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— NBC Olympics & Paralympics (@NBCOlympics) August 1, 2024

After her latest victory as well as her gold medal in Tuesday's team final, she now has nine total Olympic medals and is the most decorated U.S. gymnast of all time at the Games. Biles will have a chance to add to her collection during upcoming finals for floor, vault, and balance beam.