NBC News’ Kaetlyn Liddy is reporting on the scene from Minneapolis.If Biles performs well on the floor exercise, she will finish first in the all-around and mathematically secure her ticket to Paris.The top three all-around gymnasts have all had falls on beam now, with Chiles coming off at the end of the third rotation.
Dawes was a member of the"Magnificent Seven" team that won gold at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, as well as the 1992 and 2000 medal-winning teams. The pressure, she said,"heightened with each Olympics." In April 2015, Simone Biles shared a viral video of a tiny young gymnast doing a “perfect” standing back flip with a full twist.
Wong is the most experienced contender in comparison with Tiana Sumanasekera, Joscelyn Roberson and Hezly Rivera. That appeared to pay off on this event, and she scored a 13.650, her best score of the entire year.Heartbreak is par for the course at the U.S. Olympic trials, but athletes aren’t the only ones with broken dreams. Even USA Gymnastics leadership is reeling after three of the five front-runners for the Olympic team went down with injuries in the past week.
A fall on beam tonight from Hezly Rivera, Tiana Sumanasekera, Leanne Wong or Joscelyn Roberson could knock them out of Olympic contention; hit routines could punch their tickets to Paris.After a shaky outing on the balance beam on Day 1, Biles' coach, Laurent Landi, told her to"just do her normal" going into the second half of the competition tonight.
Using average scores from the Core Hydration Classic, the U.S. Gymnastics Championships and Day 1 of the U.S. Olympic trials, the highest-scoring potential team in an Olympic Team Final scenario would be Biles, Jordan Chiles, Suni Lee, Jade Carey and Kaliya Lincoln with a 172.820. Joscelyn Roberson practices her floor exercise before the final day of the U.S. Olympic gymnastics trials in Minneapolis on Sunday.Tokyo Olympian Jordan Chiles had a"rough practice" ahead of Day 1, but everything came together when she donned her competition leotard and finished second in the all-around to Biles.
The festivities included a parade, which passed by the Target Center, where the trials are being held, a few hours ago.
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