Who is in womens floor exercise final

It's the nation's second medal ever in women's gymnastics after the Japanese team won bronze in , the last time the Summer Games were held in Tokyo. The floor event final tie was not the only one of the artistic gymnastics events in Tokyo.

There were two ties during the men's event finals, but both were broken with the winner ultimately receiving the gold. Skip to content. Our redesigned local news and weather app is live!

Download it for iOS or Android — and sign up for alerts. Carey took the stage early and set the bar too high for the remaining competition. One by one, they came within tenths of a point to Carey but were unable to touch her score. The difference was the points Carey received for degree of difficulty, as she was the lone gymnast to touch the six-plus mark 6.

All the others, aside from Russian Viktoriia Listunova, finished with better execution scores than Carey. Brazil's Rebeca Andrade, who claimed gold in the women's vault final, finished fifth with a score of A lot of long flights. A little bit of jet lag. One unrelenting vision of what could be possible.

The year-old American gymnast soared to gold in the women's floor exercise, her powerful and precise routine capping a roller-coaster 24 hours in which she narrowly avoided serious injury during the vault finals when her right foot caught just as she was preparing her entry.

While you were sleeping: Canada defeats U. Carey's score of Considered one of the favourites after coming in second during vault qualifying, Carey was thundering down the blue runway Sunday when she tripped.

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