Gymnastics recap, Aug. 3: Biles wins career gold No. 7, Yulo & McClenaghan make history

Ladies’s Vault Closing


Simone Biles is golden as soon as once more. After pulling out of the vault remaining on the 2020 Tokyo Video games, Biles is again on prime of the medal podium — now a two-time Olympic champion on vault (she first received in 2016) and a seven-time Olympic gold medalist. 

Unable to deal with Biles’ stage of issue, defending Olympic champion Rebeca Andrade completed second. The freshly minted two-time Olympic gold medalist Jade Carey, completed third so as to add a 3rd Olympic medal to her haul. 

Biles competed within the first group of athletes, vaulting an explosive Yurchenko double pike (15.700) and Cheng (14.900), for a median of 15.300. 

Andrade soared on her Cheng to outscore Biles’ Cheng with a 15.100. She busted out an Amanar for her second vault (14.833) to lock within the silver (14.966 common). 

Carey was on a little bit of a mission — maybe her personal private “Redemption Tour” — after an uncharacteristic mistake pressured her to the underside of the standings in Tokyo. Carey carried out two of the perfect vaults of her profession (14.733 for her Cheng and 14.466 for her Yurchenko double twist) with only a small hop on the touchdown. Carey’s common of 14.466 secured the bronze. 

“This appears like redemption,” Carey mentioned. “I actually wished to do higher (than Tokyo 2020), particularly on vault. I am simply pleased with the work I put in and am actually pleased with what I did right here as we speak. This (the medal) feels actually, actually good.”

RESULTS

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