Simone Biles
After finishing a combination, a dancer lost their footing and fell off the beam. She finished sixth with a score of 13.100. She lost out on the opportunity to win her 11th Olympic medal overall.
The favourable tidings?
She still has one event left, which is later on Monday afternoon on her favourite floor, where she is the clear favourite.
Alice D’Amato, of Italy, won gold with a score of 14.366. The Italian Manila Esposito (14.00) finished with the bronze, followed by China’s Zhou Yaqin (14.100) in second place.
After sliding and falling during her performance, American Sunisa Lee scored 13.100 to finish in sixth place. She had three medals at the end of the Paris Games, two bronze and one gold. Over the previous two Games, she had earned six medals in total. In terms of overall medals won, she and Aly Raisman are tied for third place among American female gymnasts in history.
Perhaps the last day of competition for Biles in her amazing Olympic career is Monday. She has become a huge star in Paris, and ticket brokers outside Bercy Arena were asking desperate fans for as much as 1,000 euros, or $1,100 USD. Once more, a large number of dignitaries and celebrities, including NFL icon Tom Brady, attended the Simone Show.
It’s uncommon to see a gymnast compete into her 30s, but the 27-year-old, in her third Summer Games, advised against saying “never say never” when it comes to coming back for the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles. Since the 1950s, Biles has been the oldest American female gymnast at the Olympics.
However, Biles has once again shown in Paris, so never write her out.
Paris Games Medal Count
| Rank | Country |
G |
S |
B |
Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
 United States |
19 | 27 | 26 | 72 |
| 2 |
 China |
21 | 17 | 14 | 52 |
| 3 |
 France |
12 | 14 | 18 | 44 |
| 4 |
 Great Britain |
10 | 12 | 16 | 38 |
| 5 |
 Australia |
12 | 11 | 8 | 31 |
She holds the record as the most decorated American gymnast in history with ten Olympic medals in her career, including seven golds. (Shannon Miller’s total medal count is seven.) She still has a chance to earn her 11th career Olympic medal, which would tie her for second all-time among female gymnasts with Czechoslovakia’s Vera Caslavska from the 1960s.
Even though Larisa Latynina of the Soviet Union, who competed in the Games in 1965, 1960, and 1964, won 18 medals in all, she will not surpass her total because the sport is now significantly more competitive, particularly in individual categories.
