Jennifer Yuma editorSimone Biles earned a third place bronze medal in the balance beam final on Tuesday after returning to the Tokyo Olympics.Wearing the number 392, Biles was the second gymnast to perform.
She looked strong and confident, and beamed a huge smile of relief after making a solid landing. Her grin slipped somewhat after learning of her score, 14.0, which placed her behind China’s Tang Xijing.
Biles’s score comprised 6.1 points for the difficulty of the routine and 7.9 for its execution.She was eventually reduced to third place by the eighth competitor China’s Guan Chenchen who went top with a 14.633 score.Biles, the reigning world champion on balance beam, won the bronze medal for the event at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
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