The Simone Biles-led women’s gymnastics team team are not at the top of the Olympics leaderboard for the first time in over a decade.
Team USA made a few uncharacteristically sloppy errors during the qualifying round at the Ariake Gymnastics Centre, allowing Russia to take a 1.067 point lead over the U.S.
Both Simone and Grace McCallum stepped out of bounds, with Simone taking a step off the mat on her vault landing. “I feel we did a pretty good job.
Obviously, there are little things we need to work on, so we’ll go back and practice and work on that, just so we can do our best performance at team finals because that’s what matters,” Biles said, per People. “We’re really striving for top three [finish].” Team USA’s high-performance team
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