Simone Biles Olympics live updates: Women’s gymnastics results
Simone Biles and the U.S. women’s gymnastics team are competing at the 2024 Paris Olympics today, taking part in qualifying. Suni Lee and Jordan Chiles are joining Simone Biles in doing the all-around while Jade Carey and Hezly Rivera will do two events each today. (Looking for other Olympics action today? Follow all other Olympics results and live updates.)
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Is Simone Biles competing today?
Yes. Biles is competing today to make the gymnastics all-around final, which is Thursday, Aug. 1, as the U.S. women’s gymnastics team competes to make the team final, which is Tuesday, July 30. Here is Simone Biles’ Olympics competition schedule.
When does USA gymnastics team compete at Paris Olympics?
Biles, Jordan Chiles, Suni Lee, Jade Carey and Hezly Rivera compete in the second subdivision today, which starts at 5:40 a.m. ET.
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What time is women’s gymnastics today at Paris Olympics?
Women’s gymnastics qualifying starts at 3:30 a.m. ET with the first subdivision.
How to watch gymnastics at Paris Olympics
Peacock is live streaming the entire qualifying session. NBC is airing live Simone Biles and the U.S. women’s gymnastics team in the second subdivision.
Jessica Chastain, Shaun White among celebs at Olympic gymnastics
There are plenty of high-profile fans at Bercy Arena this morning, presumably to see Simone Biles. Oscar-winning actress Jessica Chastain is seated with her family in a section on the northern side of the arena, near the vault, a few rows up from USA snowboarder Shaun White and his girlfriend, Nina Dobrev. Businessman David Lauren, the son of eponymous clothing designer Ralph Lauren, is also seated nearby.
Today’s team qualifying is drawing such high interest because it will be the first time that Biles competes at the Paris Olympics, where she is expected to add to her gold medal haul. She and the rest of Team USA will start on balance beam shortly after 11:40 a.m. local time (or 5:40 a.m. ET).
How many medals does Simone Biles have?
Simone Biles is the most-decorated gymnast of all time, with 37 medals at the world championships and Olympics. To put that in perspective, that’s more than any men’s team has. Combined. China’s initial five-man team had 37 medals, but they made a switch before qualifying and now only have 34. Oh, the men do two more events than the women do, too. Which means Biles has amassed her collection despite having fewer opportunities to do so.
How does Olympic gymnastics qualifying work?
Every gymnast, whether they’re competing as part of a team or as an individual, has to go through qualifying. How many events they do depends both on whether they’re trying to make the all-around final and, if their country is one of the 12 in the team competition, where they’re needed most.
Four gymnasts compete on each event in qualifying, and teams can drop their lowest score. The top eight teams after qualifying advance to Tuesday’s team final, where scores start over, and the U.S. women are the heavy favorites to win gold.
The top 24 in the individual all-around make Thursday’s final, where Biles is expected to become only the third woman, and first since 1968, to win a second Olympic title. The top eight gymnasts on each event advance to the event finals, which are Aug. 3-5.
But there is a limit of two gymnasts per country in the all-around and each event final, meaning there is likely to be at least one American who will get sidelined.
U.S. women’s gymnastics Olympic qualifying lineup
Suni Lee and Jordan Chiles are joining Simone Biles in doing the all-around. That means Jade Carey and Hezly Rivera, at 16 the only member of the team who isn’t a returning Olympian, are each doing two events: Carey on vault and floor exercise, where she’s the reigning Olympic champion, and Rivera on uneven bars and balance beam.
- Balance beam: Chiles, Rivera, Lee, Biles.
- Floor exercise: Lee, Chiles, Carey, Biles.
- Vault: Lee, Chiles, Carey, Biles.
- Uneven bars: Rivera, Chiles, Biles, Lee.
Who will anchor U.S. women’s gymnastics on each apparatus?
The U.S. women start on balance beam and finish on uneven bars. Biles will anchor every event but uneven bars, where it will be Lee. Bars is Lee’s signature event, and she won a bronze medal on it at the Tokyo Olympics in addition to her all-around gold. Biles will go second-to-last on bars. Biles, Carey and Chiles are each planning to do two vaults, meaning they are trying to qualify for the vault final.
Olympic gymnastics scoring: How does it work?
A gymnastics routine gets two scores: One for difficulty, also known as the D score or start value, and one for execution. Every gymnastics skill has a numerical value, and the D score is the sum total of the skills in a routine. The execution score, or E score, reflects how well the skills were done. A…
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