Current:Home > Finance2024 Olympics: Team USA Wins Gold at Women’s Gymnastics Final-LoTradeCoin
2024 Olympics: Team USA Wins Gold at Women’s Gymnastics Final
View Date:2024-12-24 21:12:58
The U.S. women's gymnastics team reached new heights at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Simone Biles, Jade Carey, Jordan Chiles, Suni Lee and Hezly Rivera officially won gold in the women’s gymnastics team all-around final July 30. (Though Rivera did not compete in the finals after receiving the lowest score for Team USA at the July 28 qualifier, she'll still take home the medal.)
While USA took the top spot, Italy grabbed the silver—the first time they've won a medal in 96 years—and Brazil scored bronze, their first-ever team gymnastics medal.
Brazil's historic medal came after gymnast Flavia Saraiva suffered a scary fall during warmups, slipping off of the uneven bars and kneeing herself in the face, leaving her with a black eye. But Saraiva pushed through any discomfort and helped her team secure third place in the competition.
For Team USA, Biles—who previously struggled with the twisties during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics—and Chiles took part in all four events: vault, uneven bars, floor exercise and balance beam.
The star-studded crowd, which included Jonathan Owens (in a Biles T-shirt), Nicole Kidman, Serena Williams and Natalie Portman, showed Chiles extra love at the start of her beam routine after the 23-year-old lost her balance and landed on the ground. With the audience, including proud parents Gina and Timothy Chiles cheering her on, Chiles quickly recovered and stuck the landing at the end of her performance.
“When a mistake happens, it’s so important to just pick yourself back up and continue the routine as if everything is perfect,” commentator and Olympian Laurie Hernandez said. “The routine score counts no matter what it is. Might as well hit a good one.”
And that she did.
Meanwhile, Lee competed in the uneven bars, balance beam and floor. And Carey also returned to the arena for the vault after suffering a fall during her floor routine at the Women’s Gymnastics Qualifiers July 28.
Following her qualifiers performance, Carey, who previously won a gold medal for her floor routine at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, addressed her tumble on the floor.
"I just have not been feeling well the past few days and haven't been able to eat or anything," she told Olympics.com July 28. "I had, like, no energy today and didn't really have a sense of what was going on in my head."
Amid Carey's health struggle, she received support from fellow Olympian Aly Raisman.
"One of the hardest things about sports is that no matter how much you prepare you," Raisman told Olympics.com, "sometimes the morning that you wake up for a meet, you might not be feeling well. You might be jet lagged, you may not have slept well, and fluke things can happen."
"It's just so devastating to hear that she hasn't been feeling well," the six-time Olympic medalist continued. "I hope that she knows that she did an unbelievable job."
Keep reading to see all the photos of Team USA during the all-around finals...
Jordan Chiles, Hezly Rivera, Simone Biles, Jade Carey and Suni Lee celebrated after winning gold.
Lee shined during her uneven bars routine.
Chiles and Biles enjoyed a sweet moment together during the competition.
Biles soared during the vault competition.
Chiles had the best reaction after finishing her routine on the uneven bars.
After falling during her floor routine at qualifiers, Carey returned to the arena for the team finals, where she dominated the vault competition.
Lee delivered a jaw-dropping floor routine for Team USA.
After completing her incredible floor routine, Chiles broke down in tears.
Biles hit the balance beam in style.
The Olympian's husband Jonathan Owens, who took a break from NFL training camp to fly to Paris, and mom Nellie Biles cheered her on in the crowd.
Watch the 2024 Paris Olympics daily on NBC and Peacock until the summer games end with the Closing Ceremony on Sunday, Aug. 11, at 7 p.m. ET/PT.veryGood! (2)
Related
- Biden, Harris participate in Veterans Day ceremony | The Excerpt
- Indonesia’s leading presidential hopeful picks Widodo’s son to run for VP in 2024 election
- Venezuelan opposition holds presidential primary in exercise of democracy, but it could prove futile
- Thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators march in London as Israel-Hamas war roils the world
- Lions QB Jared Goff, despite 5 interceptions, dared to become cold-blooded
- Woman returns from vacation, finds Atlanta home demolished
- Marine fatally shot at Camp Lejeune was 19 and from North Carolina, the base says
- Federal judge pauses limited gag order on Trump in 2020 election interference case
- US Congress hopes to 'pull back the curtain' on UFOs in latest hearing: How to watch
- What’s in a game? ‘Dear England’ probes the nation through the lens of its soccer team
Ranking
- J.Crew Outlet Quietly Drops Their Black Friday Deals - Save Up to 70% off Everything, Styles Start at $12
- Reese Witherspoon Tears Up Saying She Felt Like She Broke a Year Ago
- Hezbollah and Israel exchange fire and warnings of a widened war
- CEO of Web Summit tech conference resigns over Israel comments
- Tony Hinchcliffe refuses to apologize after calling Puerto Rico 'garbage' at Trump rally
- European rallies urge end to antisemitism as pro-Palestinian demonstrations continue worldwide
- Tesla recall: Nearly 55,000 new-model vehicles affected by brake safety issue
- Hezbollah and Israel exchange fire and warnings of a widened war
Recommendation
-
Saving for retirement? How to account for Social Security benefits
-
Coyotes' Travis Dermott defies NHL ban on Pride Tape; league to review 'in due course'
-
Violence forced them to flee. Now faith sustains these migrants on their journey to the US
-
South Korea, US and Japan hold first-ever trilateral aerial exercise in face of North Korean threats
-
Demure? Brain rot? Oxford announces shortlist for 2024 Word of the Year: Cast your vote
-
Roomba Flash Deal: Save $500 on the Wireless iRobot Roomba s9+ Self-Empty Vacuum
-
ACTORS STRIKE PHOTOS: See images from the 100 days film and TV actors have been picketing
-
Entertainment industry A-listers sign a letter to Biden urging a cease-fire in Gaza