Simone Biles And Suni Lee Miss Out On Medals In Olympics Balance Beam Final | EUROtoday

Simone Biles and Suni Lee missed out on medals within the ladies's gymnastics steadiness beam ultimate Monday morning.

In her penultimate competitors of the 2024 Games, Biles gave a powerful efficiency however stumbled and fell off the beam throughout her aerial collection, giving her a rating of 13.1 and a fifth-place end.

Lee, who had been thought-about a powerful contender for a podium end, additionally fell when her foot slipped after a collection of flips. She obtained the identical rating as Biles and completed sixth.

Italy's Alice D'Amato carried out with precision, receiving 14,366 to take gold. China's Zhou Yaqin grabbed the silver, and Italy's Manila Esposito gained bronze.

Biles, who has 10 Olympic medals to her identify, has made an unimaginable comeback thus far in Paris after she dropped out of most occasions on the Tokyo Olympics and took a two-year break to prioritize her psychological well being.

On Saturday, Biles gained gold on vault, whereas US teammate Jade Carey scored the bronze. Biles additionally gained gold within the all-around ultimate, the place Lee, the defending champ in that occasion, secured a bronze medal. The US squad, who named themselves the “Golden Girls,” resoundingly gained the staff occasion. Lee additionally nabbed a bronze on the uneven bars on Sunday; Biles didn’t qualify for that ultimate.

In Tokyo, Lee positioned fifth within the ultimate beam. Biles, who had withdrawn from all the opposite particular person occasions and carried out a comparatively scaled-back beam routine, gained bronze. At the 2016 Rio Olympics, Biles additionally took bronze on beam — the one occasion she competed in that she didn't high.

Both ladies expertise nice hardship to make it to Paris. Biles opened up within the new Netflix documentary, “Simone Biles Rising,” in regards to the traumas she labored by way of in remedy after the stress and weight of expectation pushed her to a breaking level in Tokyo.

Lee spent a big chunk of 2023 coping with two uncommon kidney illness diagnoses, after she wakened at some point swollen throughout her physique. She needed to endure months of ache, swelling and exhausting remedies earlier than she was cleared early this yr to place her full focus again on coaching for the Olympics.

After successful the all-around final week, Biles wrote on Instagram that “mental health matters.” In her personal put up following that competitors, Lee stated “this medal goes deeper than gymnastics.”

“I can't even begin to express how much my health has taken away from me & the strength it has taught me, so to be here is the greatest achievement of all,” she wrote.

The final ladies's gymnastics occasion of the Paris Games, the ground train, follows the beam competitors on Monday. Biles is a favourite and will very properly earn her eleventh Olympic medal.