Eight teams will contest the final, all competing in the same session and all represented by four athletes each. Only three athletes from each nation, however, can compete on a given event of the four apparatus that make up a women's team final—floor exercise, vault, uneven bars and balance beam.
As has been the case since the 2004 Olympics in Athens, all three scores count toward the team final, meaning the final team score will be the total of all 12 routines—it's 18 routines for men, as they have two more apparatuses than the women.This Astonishing Simone Biles Photo Shows Why She Is the Greatest
Each team goes from event to event in Olympic order, with the vault first, followed by the bars and beam and the floor exercise up last. However, to ensure the competition is spread evenly across the four different apparatuses, the teams that ranked first and second in qualifying— and Team USA in this case—will begin on the vault, with the teams that qualified third and fourth starting on the uneven bars, while the fifth and sixth-ranked teams will begin on the balance beam.Each of the three athletes performing on a particular apparatus is only allowed one routine.The Russian Olympic Committee and Team USA will be joined by another six teams in Tuesday's final. China, bronze medallist five years ago at the Rio Olympics, qualified with the third-highest score of 166.
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