Look out for her jaw-dropping balance beam routine The crowd at the Olympic trials went wild when when Hernandez's score of 15.70 for balance beam was revealed.
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She prefers to practice the balance beam in the barn.
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Liukin's teammate Shawn Johnson won gold on the balance beam.
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Biles had won the gold medal on the balance beam.
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Video There is a balance beam right now in the Senate.
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They were clenching around the corners of an invisible balance beam.
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GMA notes she has another eponymous move on the balance beam.
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A gymnast onscreen had smashed his face on a balance beam.
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Shawn Johnson's gold medal-winning balance beam routine from the 2008 Olympics.
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I have to figure out some other fun things— the balance beam.
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An American won't take the gold in the women's balance beam final.
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Carly Patterson is graduating from the balance beam to the baby belly!
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On Sunday morning, Biles broke that record with her balance beam routine.
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Watch Chiles' entire balance beam routine here and be wowed all over again.
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Simone Biles was still looking at the balance beam when her foot touched.
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Olympics: The U.S. won silver and bronze in the women's balance beam final.
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Kocian will likely not be competing in floor-exercise, vault and balance beam.
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Biles looked a little nervous on the balance beam, wobbling at one point.
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This little gymnast is sure to be a hit on the balance beam. 3.
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She also is the reigning world champion in floor exercise and the balance beam.
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She will compete in both the balance beam final and the floor exercise final.
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How does someone go on a balance beam like that and not fall off?
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She also added a gold medal in vault and a bronze on balance beam.
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She'll compete in the balance beam final on Monday and the floor final on Tuesday.
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She followed this performance up with individual golds for the balance beam and floor exercise.
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This is not a balance beam: every day the snow and the course are different.
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Heading into the balance beam, Mustafina was in the lead, with a 30.866 to Biles's 30.832.
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But graceful splits and steady balance made me a natural for excelling on the balance beam.
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After all, she's great at everything, so how is it possible she botched the balance beam?
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Nadia Comaneci performs her balance beam routine at the 1980 Olympic Games on July 1, 1980.
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In one clip, "Diane" teeters on the balance beam, pretending she's never been on one before.
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She was also first in three apparatus — the floor exercise, the balance beam and the vault.
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She also finished first in three of the four events: floor exercise, vault and balance beam.
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Johnson took home the gold for her balance beam routine at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
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Anyone who, as Gadsby says, "exists on the margins" is stuck on that ever-wobbling balance beam.
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Just get yourself a leotard, some (fake) Olympic medals, and maybe some practice on the balance beam.
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Left: Mary Lou Retton celebrates her balance beam score at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.
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In 2012, she won the team gold medal, floor gold medal, and bronze medal on balance beam.
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She took home a gold medal for the balance beam, and three silver medals in other events.
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Biles was the first person to nail the double-double dismount on the balance beam in competition.
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Even the single hitch in her bronze medal balance-beam routine was dirt brushed off her shoulder.
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When I couldn't walk along a balance beam in preschool, my mom started getting medical professionals involved.
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Another event let "Fortnite" fans duke it out on a balance beam in the style of "American Gladiators."
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The girl extended her arms to the left and right, like a gymnast teetering on a balance beam.
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Over two nights of competition, Biles earned top scores in the vault, balance beam, and floor exercise events.
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Snapshot: Simone Biles, above, won the gold in the balance beam and the floor exercise in Stuttgart, Germany.
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The already two-time gold medalist will compete for three more in women's balance beam, vault, and floor exercise.
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And the gymnast Simone Biles, the all-around gold medalist, competes on the balance beam in the apparatus final.
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Laurie Hernandez, the baby of the group at 16, was charming and magnetic on the floor and balance beam.
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One was clearly taken years ago; the other was taken only moments before they competed in the balance beam finals.
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Some hold tennis rackets or hockey sticks or volleyballs or pose by a swimming pool or on a balance beam.
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She also won a bronze on the balance beam, making her the most decorated American gymnast at the London games.
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After all, she had killer moves on the balance beam — why wouldn't she be equally epic on the dance floor?
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Though Biles's best event is the floor exercise, she's also at the top of the world on the balance beam.
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With Pombo's help, Werner learned to master the uneven bars and balance beam, but she really shined during the floor routine.
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China took four gymnastics gold medals in London in 2012, when its women won gold and silver on the balance beam.
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She also won team gold with the rest of the U.S. "Final Five," and took home bronze in the balance beam.
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When Olympic gymnast Aly Raisman isn't dominating on the floor or balance beam, she's focused on getting some quality shut-eye.
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The United States' Kara Eaker competes in Women's Balance beam Final at the FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany.
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She left Rio with a gold medal for the team all-around and a silver medal for her balance beam performance.
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Simone Biles does the splits mid-flip while crushing the balance beam during the Women's Individual All Around Final on Day 6.
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As a child, Stone broke both arms falling off a balance beam, so she hates to be lifted up into the air.
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This beautiful tribute to the athleticism and adorableness of kittens will feature a baby cat decathlon, balance beam, hurdles, gymnastics and more.
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" Johnson – the 2008 Olympic balance beam gold medalist, and all-around, floor exercise and team silver medalist – says gymnastics is "constantly evolving.
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She made an uncharacteristic mistake on balance beam, resulting in a fall, but still finished in the top spot at the trials.
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Hernandez earned a near-perfect 15.700 balance beam score—the highest of all 14 competing gymnasts—and finished second overall to Biles.
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In training for the nationals, she said she stood on the balance beam and took a second to consider the big picture.
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But how could it be, encompassing five centuries of American history and walking a balance beam of regional, political and pedagogical needs?
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But when the world's greatest gymnast, Simone Biles, competes on the balance beam in less than an hour, I won't be here.
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Here, at the hotel bar, there was little tension, only clapping and cheering except for during Simone's wobble on the balance beam.
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At the 1960 Olympics in Rome, she won a silver medal in the team event and placed sixth in the balance beam.
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Earlier this month, she became the first gymnast to attempt and land a double-twisting, double somersault dismount off the balance beam.
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Golds in the balance beam and floor exercise Sunday gave Biles 25 career world championship medals, the most among men and women.
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She won her 24th — outpacing the previous record of 23 medals, set by Vitaly Scherbo in 1996 — with her balance beam routine.
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Simone Biles competes on the balance beam during the Senior Women's competition of the 2019 U.S. Gymnastics Championships in Kansas City, Missouri.
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Here's their floor gymnastics routine: The balance beam (complete with incomplete Olympic construction in the background): Some, uh, maybe track and field?
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On Monday, the teen will compete against Simone Biles for a spot on the podium in the individual balance beam final on Monday.
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For example, Biles's balance beam dismount — a double twisting double back (two flips, two twists) — is the most difficult beam dismount being competed.
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The 19-year-old American gymnast tries to make it four for four as she seeks another gold today on the balance beam.
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Biles will also compete for her first vault world title on Friday, a floor exercise medal and a balance beam medal on Saturday.
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And, before she performed on the balance beam, she went through one of her small routines that proves how money she really is.
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The '$' sign is visible as Simone Biles competes on the balance beam during the women's U.S. Olympic gymnastics trials in San Jose, Calif.
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But, according to USA Gymnastics, it was Ohashi's routine on the balance beam that earned her a 15.333, her highest score that day.
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To end the team's qualifying, she performed on the balance beam, then ran off to embrace her teammates in a happy, sparkly huddle.
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China took fourth on a tough day for Liu Tingting, who fell twice on the uneven bars and again on the balance beam.
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She also dominated the rest of the field in the vault and the balance beam to capture her second gold of the Olympics.
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Johnson became only the second American woman ever to win gold in the balance beam final in Beijing with this spot-on routine. 3.
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You definitely want to feel confident in the way you look because when you're on the balance beam, confidence is the most important thing.
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She earned 15.733 on the floor, 16.000 and 16.100 from her two vaults, 15.000 on the asymmetric bars, and 15.633 on the balance beam.
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She dispelled those doubts on Sunday, turning in rock solid performances in all four gymnastics apparatuses: floor exercise, balance beam, uneven bars and vault.
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The following events will all see medals awarded today: In gymnastics, we've got the men's rings, the men's vault and the women's balance beam.
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Though her primary event was the balance beam, Coleman often practiced and performed on the uneven bars, university spokesman Patrick Dilger told the outlet.
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Laurie Hernandez, the youngest member of the United States women's gymnastics team, bested Simone Biles to win the silver medal on balance beam Monday.
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Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci was the first to achieve it, in the 103 Olympics in Montreal, on the balance beam and uneven bars. 3.
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One night in April, at the Pacific Rim Championships, in Everett, Washington, the nineteen-year-old American gymnast Simone Biles approached the balance beam.
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You cheered as Simone Biles executed a near-flawless floor routine (and grimaced when she slipped on the balance beam and got the bronze medal).
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One of those magnificent gymnasts was Shannon Miller, who also took home an individual gold medal for her performance on the balance beam that summer.
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As a team, the United States scored higher than any other team on each of the four apparatuses: floor, uneven bars, vault and balance beam.
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U.S. gymnast Simone Biles, who had hoped to add a fourth gold, came up short on the balance beam in Rio on Monday, winning bronze.
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USA gymnast Shawn Johnson was only 16 years old when she brought home a gold medal for balance beam at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics.
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While she did have some bobbles on her final two events — the uneven bars and the balance beam — she still scored 125 points in all.
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In Rio, Biles took the top prize in team, all-around, vault, and floor and tacked on the bronze in balance beam for good measure.
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Biles will have a chance at more gold later this week when she competes in the event finals in the balance beam and floor exercise.
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Eaker's fluid routine on balance beam made it seem as if she were competing on a piece of wood four feet wide, not four inches.
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There's also a label urging you not to step on the Speedster's center divider, no matter how much it might look like a balance beam.
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Simone Biles performs on the balance beam during the women's all-around final at the FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany, Oct. 28.
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The 4-inch-wide balance beam, called "the most unforgiving surface in sports," may be the most mind-boggling of the four events in women's gymnastics.
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" Another woman who says she was in the class agreed, adding, "This woman was sitting on a balance beam in the middle of a gymnastics class.
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But previous assumptions have been put on hold following a shaky performance on Friday by London all-around champion Douglas, who fell off the balance beam.
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With the Rio Olympics just around the corner, we're eagerly gearing up to cheer on Team USA from the balance beam to the pool and beyond!
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When she broke her toe on the balance beam after arriving in London, she told O'Beirne, her coaches ordered her to hide it from the press.
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"This dismount right here is the hardest dismount in the entire world," Nastia Liukin, a two-time balance-beam world champion, said on the NBC broadcast.
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On Friday, Simone Biles casually made history with a never-before-seen-move — a double-twisting somersault dismount off the balance beam — at the U.S. Gymnastic Championships.
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She recorded the highest score in all four disciplines — the floor routine, balance beam, uneven bars and vault — to head defending champion Morgan Hurd on 57.000 points.
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If she landed the leg-switching, springboard-to-split mount on the balance beam, her move — and name — would go in the sport's official Code of Points.
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There are better places to learn how to walk on a balance beam than the site which symbolizes deportation of hundreds of thousands to their deaths. pic.twitter.
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But she jumped out of her seat when she saw her score on the balance beam, which has proved far more challenging for her in recent years.
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Biles is set to compete in the balance beam final on Monday and the floor final on Tuesday, hoping to add to her collection of three gold medals.
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The 22-year-old just became the first gymnast to ever attempt and land a double-twisting, double somersault dismount off the balance beam, according to Team USA.
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Japan's Shiho Nakaji participates on the balance beam exercise in the women's qualification of the artistic gymnastics event during the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta, Indonesia on Aug. 21.
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Despite falls on the vault and balance beam, the American still finished with 57.491 points in Doha to add to the titles she won in 2013, 2014 and 2015.
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She became the first woman to land a triple twisting double somersault on floor exercise and the first to land a double twisting double somersault off the balance beam.
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Balance beam, uneven bars, ring and floor exercises, and de-CAT-hlon (of course) are just some of the events included — and, don't worry, the competition isn't too stiff.
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I don't even know if that's a rule, but I remember for me when I was on the balance beam — it's four inches wide — you don't want any distractions.
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Biles also had to whirl her arms around to stay on the balance beam after a sequence of three backflips left her wobbling on the four-inch wide apparatus.
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Now, Romania's only hope of bringing back its gymnastics legacy rests on the shoulders of 28-year-old Catalina Ponor, who is competing in the balance beam on Monday.
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Hickey added that while Manchin has tried to walk a "balance beam," his base "is really more conservative Democrats" who likely would have balked if Manchin had opposed Kavanaugh.
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So she moved from there to the balance beam with a fire inside of her — she had dropped to second place from first — and Raisman was on fire, too.
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She and her American teammates are all but assured spots in the team final, the all-around final and event finals: vault, uneven bars, balance beam and floor exercise.
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On Thursday, she'll be competing in the Women's All-Around Final, before spending the weekend competing in all four individual event finals -- vault, uneven bars, balance beam and floor exercise.
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Biles earned a bronze medal in the event after taking a tumble on the balance beam, while Hernandez scored a silver behind Sanne Wevers from the Netherlands who earned gold.
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But when Biles, who was 15 at the time, fell on the balance beam during a complex routine, she lost the lead she built after the first and second events.
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And on Sunday, with gold medals on the balance beam and in the floor exercise, Biles became the most decorated gymnast ever, with 93 world-title medals to her name. .
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Knowing what she can do on a balance beam, there's no doubt she'll be a tough competitor – and hopefully her teammates will stop by to show their support. 9. Sleep.
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The crowd loves her floor routine … and she wows on beam The crowd at the Olympic trials went wild when when Hernandez's score of 15.70 for balance beam was revealed.
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Biles scored highest for her team in vault, balance beam and floor exercise – ending the night (and securing Team USA a gold medal!) with a score of 22016 on floor.
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She will compete on the balance beam and uneven bars when she makes her competitive comeback but will add floor and vault a few weeks later at the national championships.
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On the off chance you have lingering doubts, consider that Biles on Sunday qualified in first place for the all-around and first on vault, balance beam and floor exercise.
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The glum look on her face as she stood on the lowest platform of the podium said it all — she had not won a bronze medal on the balance beam.
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Case in point: During the all-around competition at the 22011 World Championships in Glasgow, Biles turned in an uncharacteristically shaky performance (which included a bobble on the balance beam).
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Ahead of her weekend victories, Biles made history once more by successfully landing the triple-double during her floor routine and then the double-double dismount on the balance beam.
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She had already made gymnastics history earlier in the week by successfully landing the triple-double during her floor routine and then the double-double dismount on the balance beam.
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Biles has previously won a team gold medal, two gold medals for individual performances on the all-around and the vault, as well as a bronze medal on the balance beam.
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Biles scored a 15.966 on her floor routine on Tuesday, clinching her fourth gold and fifth overall medal in Rio (she won a bronze for her performance on the balance beam).
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Biles secured gold by more than half of a point in both vault and balance beam before earning a full point more than the next-highest scorer in the floor exercise.
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American gymnasts won two more medals: Laurie Hernandez, the youngest member of the U.S. team, took the silver medal on the balance beam, and Simone Biles earned bronze, her fourth medal.
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She made good on her promise at the 21970 Olympic Games in Tokyo, winning gold medals in the vault, in the balance beam and, by defeating Latynina, in the all-around.
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Which is well deserved, after making history at the world championships by successfully landing the triple-double during her floor routine and then the double-double dismount on the balance beam.
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At the nearby Red Cedar gym, Jenny Willard earlier in the day had watched through a window as her young son swung from a rope and wobbled on a balance beam.
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They have fallen for the diminutive 16-year-old Flavia Saraiva, who finished fifth on the balance beam final, only 0.2 of a point behind superstar and bronze medalist American Simone Biles.
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In an exclusive sneak peek from Wednesday's episode of Game Changers, the castaways vie for all-important immunity by standing on a narrow balance beam while holding a buoy between two handles.
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Picture the lineup of athletes along a start line as they wait eagerly for the sound of the gun or gymnasts as they perform flips on a balance beam with unfathomable precision.
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Simone Biles, the first American to win four gymnastics golds at a single Olympics (she also won bronze for her performance on the balance beam), is at the Super Bowl this weekend.
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The gymnast posted a video of her brand new balance beam mount and announced on Instagram that the skill has officially been entered into the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique Code of Points.
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At the U.S. Gymnastics Championships on Friday, she achieved a double-twisting somersault dismount off the balance beam, which as the announcer points out, had never been attempted before in a competition.
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From her seat in the Rio Olympic Arena, just above the balance beam, Karolyi's eyes grew wet behind her glasses as she watched her squad dominate and win the team gold medal.
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Caslavska, fearing arrest, fled to the countryside in Moravia, where she maintained her training regimen by lifting sacks of potatoes, swinging from tree branches and using a log for a balance beam.
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That young readers who may relate to the victims of Dr. Nassar are finding sympathetic ears on the gymternet does not surprise Spencer Barnes, 31, the editor of The Balance Beam Situation.
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One user compared the accuracy of this scale to three balance beam scales at a local hospital and found that any difference between these scales and the Taylor device was not measurable.
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Debbie freaks out at Brad, whom she accuses of forcing her to do the balance beam (which she actually volunteered for), and at Hali, who she's sure is getting treated like a princess.
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Rio 2016 RIO DE JANEIRO — For anyone who doubted her after a subpar performance on the balance beam, Simone Biles sent an emphatic message on Tuesday: She is unbeatable in the floor exercise.
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Being on a rail is similar to being on a balance beam, but because the former is thinner and usually round, your whole foot cannot be on top of the rail at once.
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Douglas, who like Raisman competed in London four years ago, has three medals while Biles tied the record of four golds in a single games in Rio and earned bronze on the balance beam.
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For her Saturday performance, Biles, 21, took gold on the floor exercise and bronze on the balance beam making her the first woman in 30 years to win a medal in every single event.
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A fall for Sunisa Lee on balance beam and a fumbled routine from Grace McCallum on the uneven bars left the United States with room for improvement, though both were strong in other events.
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Snapshot: Simone Biles, above in Stuttgart, Germany, won the gold in the balance beam and the floor exercise to become the most decorated gymnast in world championship history, with a total of 25 medals.
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More gold awaits on the individual apparatus, balance beam, vault and floor, where she is expected to whip up the Brazilian crowd with a saucy, high-flying routine played out to a Latin beat.
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Gymnast Sanne Wevers took home the Netherlands's first-ever women's individual medal in the sport during Tuesday afternoon's balance beam final, besting some strong competition in the form of Americans Simone Biles and Laurie Hernandez.
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The teenage gymnast nabbed a spot on the U.S. Olympic team and rocketed to international fame after winning gold with the "Final Five" in Rio, in addition to an individual silver medal on balance beam.
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Biles has two more events Sunday -- the floor exercise and the balance beam -- and will likely pass Vitaly Scherbo, a Belarussian who competed in the 1990s, as the most decorated gymnast in world championship history.
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"It took until my late teens to understand what it was," she says, demonstrating how she used to walk, a strut with one foot in front of the other, as if on a balance beam.
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Yesterday's big shocker: super gymnast Simone Biles slipped on the balance beam and lost her shot at becoming the first female gymnast to win five golds at a single Games in more than a century.
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Simone Biles, already the first U.S. gymnast to win three gold medals in one Summer Olympics, will go for a fourth on the balance beam tonight, while Allyson Felix races in the 400-meter final.
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Simone Biles on Sunday became the most decorated gymnast in world championship history, winning gold medals in the balance beam and the floor exercise to increase her career medal total in the championships to 25.
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Gymnastics: Biles won gold medals in the balance beam and floor exercise to increase her career championship medal count to 25 — breaking Vitaly Scherbo's record of 24, which had stood for more than 2 decades.
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Hungary's Boglarka Devai won the vault, Belgium's Nina Derwael successfully defended her asymmetric bars title, Dutch Olympic champion Sanne Wevers prevailed on the balance beam and French starlet Melanie de Jesus was victorious on the floor.
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First, she nabbed a gold medal in the team event and a silver on the balance beam — and her cheeky wink before her floor routine instantly won the crown for best GIF of the Rio Games.
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I devoted myself to gymnastics for much of my childhood and adolescence, and rose through the ranks to become a state balance beam champion and compete at the national level in Australia, where I grew up.
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The 21-year-old also added a bronze on the balance beam to earn her sixth medal this week, the first time since 1987 that a woman has medaled in every event at a world championships.
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Kate Haslam says her 19-month-old son West was hungry during his weekly toddler gym class at the Spring Valley YMCA in Limerick, so she sat on a balance beam along the wall to nurse him.
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But, according to USA Gymnastics, it was Ohashi's routine on the balance beam — which featured a flip flop, flip flop, layout full twist and double pike dismount — that earned her a 15.333, her highest score that day.
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At the national championships in 2015, Hernandez won all-around gold and also medals on all four events, including gold on uneven bars, as well as silver on floor exercise, and bronzes on vault and balance beam.
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Donna Markham, the mother of Chelsea Markham, testified her daughter was molested by Nassar after seeking treatment for a back injury she suffered in a fall off a balance beam when she was 10, Sports Illustrated reported.
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An article on Wednesday about the effects of an Olympics postponement on athletes' training schedules described incorrectly the Olympic medal won by the gymnast Laurie Hernandez in balance beam at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
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In Doha, Qatar, the Olympic champ, 21, advanced over the weekend to every final as the first-place qualifier for vault, floor, balance beam and all-around and the second-place qualifier for uneven bars, USA Today reported.
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"It's hard to walk the balance beam of acceptable behavior for women, teetering between passion that can get twisted into Daily Mail headlines and a work ethic that makes some colleagues deem you icy," Chastain continued to THR.
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The 29-year-old Olympic gold medalist posted a video on Instagram of herself doing a front flip on a balance beam just hours after PEOPLE confirmed she had split from her fiancé of three years, Matt Lombardi.
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Two onyx-black panels, one mounted and the other leaning on a tiny chrome balance beam, make up "I Can Feel You Now (Accumulation/Distribution)" (20193), a 12 by 20-foot diptych painted on site at Bennington College.
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Just hours before facing off with teammate and fellow gold medalist Laurie Hernandez in the balance beam event, Simone Biles shared a sweet throwback photo of the pair from a time when the Olympics were just a dream.
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The US gymnastics star was taking part in the world championships Saturday in Stuttgart, Germany, where during her floor exercise routine she landed a triple-double and then on the balance beam she nailed a double-double dismount.
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For the less cynical, or those among us more willing to suspend disbelief, watching contestants choose when, where, or whether or not to tell JoJo they love her is like watching an Olympic gymnast on the balance beam.
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At the national championships in 2015, Hernandez won all-around gold and also medals on all four events, including gold on uneven bars, as well as silver on floor exercise, and bronzes on vault and balance beam. 4.
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With her definitive gold-medal performance on the balance beam Sunday, Biles broke the record of 23 total medals at worlds, which Vitaly Scherbo of the Soviet Union and Belarus set a year before the wunderkind was born.
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But after struggling at the trials this weekend — she fell off the balance beam each night of the two-night event — she said she wished she had been more focused on her training, much earlier in the process.
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But in the 2016 Olympic women's all-around finals it was another event, the balance beam, that proved how talented Biles is and showcased the gifts you may not notice during one of her trademark high-flying tumbling passes.
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This weekend's P&G Championships marked the 16-year-old's first time competing as a senior on the national level and she pulled out some jaw-dropping stops to save herself from a potential fall on the balance beam.
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Simone Biles of the United States competes on the balance beam during the Women's Individual All Around Final on Day 6 of the 20163 Rio Olympics at Rio Olympic Arena on August 11, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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And then there was that tiny wisp of a Brazilian girl — 4-foot-4, 16 years old — who floated onto the balance beam, whirled the length of it and turned in a near perfect routine that no one expected.
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Four years later, in Mexico City, Caslavska turned in a performance for the ages, winning gold medals in the vault, the all-around, floor exercise and uneven bars and silver medals in the balance beam and the team competition.
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Winning gold medals for both her floor routine and the balance beam, Biles became the most-decorated gymnast at worlds, breaking the long-held record of 23, which was set by male gymnast Vitaly Scherbo back in the 1990s.
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Winning gold medals for both her floor routine and the balance beam, Biles became the most-decorated gymnast at worlds, breaking the long-held record of 22019, which was set by male gymnast Vitaly Scherbo back in the 25s.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 15 (Reuters) - Dutchwoman Sanne Wevers caused a huge upset when she ruined Simone Biles' chances of scooping a record five golds at a single Olympics by winning the balance beam title in Rio on Monday.
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The image of someone sitting in front of a monitor, mouse and keyboard doesn't really correspond with the image of a gymnast doing flips on a 4-inch balance beam, but there are some Olympic events with similarities to esports.
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Despite a freak incident where she got chalk in her eye during a warm-up, Miller became the first American to win the balance beam as the Magnificent Seven became the first women's American team to win the overall gold.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - When Simone Biles stood on her bare feet ready to mount the balance beam on Thursday, it seemed like she would need to get on her tiptoes to peer over the 1.25 meter (4.1 feet) apparatus.
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One of the youngest U.S. Olympians this year in Rio, Hernandez has also been one of the most high-profile, winning the gold with the team in the all-around competition, and scoring an individual silver medal for the balance beam.
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The Canadian will be hard pressed to keep from surrendering her all-around title to the U.S. on Monday and then will need to be at her best to retain her gold on the balance beam and floor exercise from 2015.
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With a definitive gold-medal performance on the balance beam, Biles broke the record of 23 total medals at worlds, which Vitaly Scherbo of the Soviet Union and Belarus set a year before the 4-foot-8 powerhouse was born.
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Despite suffering kidney stone problems that briefly sent her to a Doha hospital emergency room before the championships, Biles won gold in the team final, all-around, vault and floor exercise, a silver on uneven bars and bronze on balance beam.
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Professional women always walk a balance beam of respect, pushed to excel without seeming ambitious, pulled by social expectations of female niceness tempered by concerns that female likability exists in opposition to perceptions of female competence, inevitably blown off-kilter.
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Each country chooses five gymnasts to compete; three of those five compete on each apparatus (the floor, the balance beam, the vault, and the uneven bars), and those three athletes' scores in each event count toward a grand team total.
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Earlier this week, two of her signature moves — the triple-double and a double-double dismount from the balance beam — were named after her by USA Gymnastics (though the Federation of International Gymnastics needs to give approval before it's official).
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She wasn't the only one to get a celeb shout-out on Tuesday: Gymnast Laurie Hernandez heard from Orange is the New Black's Laverne Cox after the first-time Olympian, 173, earned a silver medal in the women's balance beam final on Monday.
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Biles then finished the routine with a full-twisting double back, but went on to earn a 13.133 on the balance beam and a 14.000 on the floor, and finished with a total score of 57.666, and point and a half behind Ohashi.
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And there is little left to be said about her 19-year-old teammate Simone Biles, who has balanced power and athletic perfection with grace, perhaps best exemplified when she took bronze in the balance beam, a disappointment to seemingly everyone but herself.
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The 22-year-old successfully landed her triple-twisting double backflip on floor exercise and her double-twisting double backflip balance beam dismount in the qualification round on Saturday, ensuring those skills would be named after her in the Code of Points.
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Even in those sports where women have traditionally garnered more recognition and coverage than men, such as gymnastics, women compete in four events (uneven bars, vault, floor, balance beam), while men compete in six (parallel bars, vault, floor, high bar, rings and pommel horse).
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Images of teens brandishing assault rifles and stories of shootouts between drug traffickers have struck an ominous tone, with coverage suggesting the Marvelous City is on the brink of civil war—right around the corner from where Simone Biles will be dismounting her balance beam.
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A day after a wobbly performance on the balance beam ended the American's hopes of leaving Rio with a record haul of five golds for a female gymnast, she was back to her hip-shaking best to capture the floor title with 15.966 points.
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"I'm sorry, guys, I can't feel my toes," Biles said, one cold morning, as she stumbled on a balance beam that had been set up in the middle of Union Square by Special K Red Berries, which had apparently won her services over Wheaties.
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Through the early 1990s, Miller would embark on an impressive international record: Two perfect 10's on the balance beam at the Swiss Cup and Arthur Gander Memorial in 1990 and 20103; two silver medals in the 1991 World Championships, and five medals at the 1992 Olympics.
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Biles capped a remarkable 2018 world gymnastics championships by claiming gold on floor exercise and bronze on balance beam during event finals on Saturday, giving her six medals for the meet and 20 over all in world championships, tied with Svetlana Khorkina of Russia for the most by a female gymnast.
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USA Gymnastics announced on Twitter that her triple-double — a windy move involving a double backflip and three twists — would be officially dubbed the "Biles II." This came after Biles successfully landed a triple-double during her floor routine and a double-double-dismount on the balance beam at the competition.
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That same year, USA Gymnastics announced that it would name the impossible move, which involves two double backflips and three twists, the "Biles II." As if the triple double wasn't enough, in the same competition Biles also made history by performing a double-double dismount on the balance beam, Refinery29 previously reported.
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A competitor from New Zealand had just finished her floor routine, set to the theme from "Game of Thrones," and now Biles, who wore a pink leotard studded with more than four thousand Swarovski crystals, looked sternly down the length of the four-inch-wide balance beam, on which she was about to perform nine flips.
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"We followed up with our employee, and what had happened is that she had asked the mother to move, she was sitting on a balance beam, which was part of the class, and the mother took that to mean she wasn't welcome to breastfeed, because she was breastfeeding at the time, and that was certainly not the intent of the employee," Elliott tells PEOPLE.
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