Olympic Games 2024 live updates: Simone Biles and Suni Lee compete for gold
What if there's a tie?
Kaetlyn LiddyKaetlyn Liddy is a newsroom coordinator for NBC News Digital.
In case of a tie in the all-around final, the gymnast with the higher execution score prevails. If they tie in execution as well, the lowest apparatus score from each gymnast is dropped.
Six-time Olympic medalist Aly Raisman notoriously lost the all-around bronze at the 2012 London Olympics to Russia’s Aliya Mustafina in a heartbreaking tiebreaker that helped spur her 2016 Rio Olympics comeback.
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How does the all-around final work?
Kaetlyn LiddyKaetlyn Liddy is a newsroom coordinator for NBC News Digital.
The top 24 gymnasts from the qualifying round advance to the individual all-around final. Only the top two gymnasts from each country move on to the final.
Gymnasts compete on all four apparatuses and all scores count. The gymnast with the highest combined scores wins.
36m ago / 9:48 AM EDT
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Who is Rebeca Andrade? This Brazilian gymnast could challenge Simone Biles for gold
Kaetlyn LiddyKaetlyn Liddy is a newsroom coordinator for NBC News Digital.
Brazilian Gymnast Rebeca Andrade
Brazil's Rebeca Andrade celebrates after winning the gold at the Pan American Games Santiago in October 2023.Martin Bernetti / AFP via Getty Images
If there’s one person who could spoil the party for Simone Biles, it’s Brazilian phenom Rebeca Andrade.
Andrade, 25, became a household name in Brazil after she won two medals at the Tokyo Olympic Games.
Andrade and Biles are expected to face off for gold in the all-around, vault and floor finals. While they have competed against each other before, Paris is set to be the first Olympic showdown with both of them at peak form.
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52m ago / 9:31 AM EDT
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Italian Olympic gymnast Giorgia Villa goes viral for cheese partnership
Minyvonne Burke
Italian gymnast Giorgia Villa was a muenster at the 2024 Paris Olympics, helping her team win the silver medal in Tuesday’s all-around final. But social media seems to be more intrigued by the sponsorship deal she has with cheese.
“I need the people to know that olympic silver medalist giorgia villa is sponsored by parmesan cheese and regularly posts pics of herself with giant wheels of cheese,” one user wrote Wednesday on X.
“I have a new hero and it’s Giorgia Villa from Team Italy who is literally sponsored by CHEESE,” another posted.
Italian gymnast Giorgia Villa goes viral for her parmesan partnership
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The 21-year-old announced her partnership with Parmigiano-Reggiano in April 2021, posing in a black gymnastics leotard next to a giant wheel of cheese.
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1h ago / 9:15 AM EDT
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Suni Lee battled back to get to Paris
NBC News
Suni Lee looks back at her golden performance at the Tokyo Olympics, the highs and lows of her college gymnastics career, and the moment she was told she might never do gymnastics again.
From Tokyo to Paris, Suni Lee's golden journey
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Pommel horse star Stephen Nedoroscik goes viral after Team USA wins bronze medal
Kalhan Rosenblatt
Gymnast Stephen Nedoroscik is now an Olympic medalist. But to the internet, he’ll always be lovingly remembered as “Pommel horse guy.”
Nedoroscik, who qualified for the Olympic team solely on the strength of his pommel horse routine, became an internet favorite this week after having sat on the sidelines for nearly three hours during the first five rotations of hte men's team final Tuesday before he anchored the U.S. on his specialty event.
Viewers online couldn’t get enough of Nedoroscik, posting images of him on the sidelines and then again after he crushed his routine.
Some labeled him “pommel horse guy.” Others joked that his job is “pommel horse” — a nod to the “Barbie” movie, in which Ken’s job is described as “beach.” A few described him as Team USA’s “babygirl,” a word used by fans online to label their favorite men (fictional or real).
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NBC News even got ahold of Nederoscik's girlfriend (aka Lois Lane) who has also been reveling in the plethora of memes about Nedoroscik.
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2h ago / 8:50 AM EDT
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Biles and Lee look to capture more Parisian hardware
Kaetlyn LiddyKaetlyn Liddy is a newsroom coordinator for NBC News Digital.
“The Star-Spangled Banner” could reverberate in Bercy Arena again this week after the U.S. women won team gold Tuesday. It was Biles' fifth Olympic gold and Lee's second.
Up next: individual Olympic glory. Both are capable of adding another Parisian souvenir to their medal collection.
What to watch for as gymnasts Simone Biles and Suni Lee face off
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The men couldn't medal in the all-around yesterday
Rebecca Cohen
Yesterday, Frederick Richard and Paul Juda represented Team USA in the men's individual all-around final, but didn't find themselves on the podium at the end of the meet.
Juda finished 14th and Richard finished 15th in a field of 24 men. Neither was expected to medal, but Richard was hungry for a spot on the podium.
Richard's day started off rough with a fall on the pommel horse, his first apparatus, but he steadily improved, closing out the meet with two of his best events: High bar and floor.
Juda, who wasn't a favorite to even contend in the all-around final, had a solid day with few mistakes — and positive energy throughout that proved how excited he was just to be there.
Both are first-time Olympians and are young for the men's contest.
2h ago / 8:22 AM EDT
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Watch: U.S. women’s gymnastics team celebrates winning gold at Paris Olympics
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Watch as the U.S. women’s gymnastics team celebrates after winning gold medals at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Watch: U.S. women's gymnastics team celebrates winning gold at Paris Olympics
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2h ago / 8:05 AM EDT
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Andrade could be Brazil's first Olympic all-around champ
Kaetlyn LiddyKaetlyn Liddy is a newsroom coordinator for NBC News Digital.
If she bests Biles and Lee today, Rebeca Andrade would be the first Brazilian gymnast to win an Olympic all-around title.
She came close in Tokyo. Andrade was expected to top the podium there after Biles withdrew due to the “twisties,” but she stepped out of bounds twice at the eleventh hour on the floor exercise, and Lee clinched the gold.
After becoming Brazil's first gymnast to win Olympic medals in Tokyo, she helmed the nation to their first medal in the team event Tuesday, winning bronze.
3h ago / 7:53 AM EDT
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Kaylia Nemour is competing for Algeria after falling out with French federation
Kaetlyn LiddyKaetlyn Liddy is a newsroom coordinator for NBC News Digital.
All-around medal contender Kaylia Nemour is representing Algeria in Paris despite being born and raised in France.
She switched nationalities last year via her paternal Algerian heritage after a lengthy dispute with the French gymnastics federation that left her Paris hopes in jeopardy. The conflict involved contentions over where the uneven bars prodigy would train and allegations that Nemour's coach was overworking the 17-year-old.
The French team is sure to be lamenting burned bridges with Nemour this week.
The squad failed to qualify for the team final or any individual finals at its home Olympics after a disastrous showing in Sunday's qualifying round. Nemour qualified in first place for the uneven bars final and in fourth for today's all-around final.
3h ago / 7:32 AM EDT
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‘Magnificent Seven’ Olympian Shannon Miller says Biles is ‘inspiring’
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Shannon Miller, an Olympic gymnast who was a part of the 1996 Magnificent Seven, talked to NBC News’ Tom Llamas about the women’s U.S. gymnastics team and Simone Biles surpassing her medal record.
'Magnificent Seven' Olympian Shannon Miller says Biles is 'inspiring'
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3h ago / 7:11 AM EDT
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No American has won Olympic all-around twice
Kaetlyn LiddyKaetlyn Liddy is a newsroom coordinator for NBC News Digital.
If Biles or Lee win gold today, they would join Larisa Latynina of the Soviet Union and Věra Čáslavská of Czechoslovakia as repeat Olympic all-around champions. Both are legends of the sport who last competed in the 1960s.
No American has won the title more than once.
A win from Biles would also make her the first gymnast to win two Olympic all-around championships nonconsecutively, having missed out on defending her title in Tokyo while grappling with the "twisties."
4h ago / 6:53 AM EDT
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Jade Carey and Hezly Rivera revel in ‘Golden Girls’ victory
Susan Baek
After Team USA’s triumphant redemption for gold in Tuesday’s team final, Jade Carey and Hezly Rivera can’t stop smiling.
Jade Carey and Hezly Rivera talk winning gold in Paris: ‘So proud’
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“It just feels so incredible. I’m super excited and super proud of this team and everything that we’ve overcome to get back here on top of the podium again,” Carey told “TODAY” co-anchors Hoda Kotb and Savannah Guthrie.
Despite not feeling well before Sunday’s qualifiers, Carey landed an excellent vault in front of a star-studded crowd to help lift her team to victory in the final.
“A lot of pressure on that one vault, but I knew that if I was just my normal self that I would get the job done,” Carey said.
4h ago / 6:40 AM EDT
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Simone Biles talks "twisties" and Tokyo with Alex Cooper
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On the "Call Her Daddy" podcast, Simone Biles walks Alex Cooper through what she was thinking during the team final at the Tokyo Olympics, and how her coaches reacted when she said, “I want to go back to the Olympics.”
Simone Biles talks "twisties" and Tokyo with Alex Cooper
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Rare for both American women to medal
Tim Perone
Reporting from Paris
Simone Biles and Suni Lee are seeking to be only the third pair of American women to both medal in the individual all-around at the same Olympics.
At the 2008 Beijing Games, Nastia Liukin won gold and Shawn Johnson won silver. Eight years later at Rio, Biles won gold and Aly Raisman won silver.
4h ago / 6:01 AM EDT
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Biles appears to clap back at former Olympic teammate who criticized Paris team’s work ethic
Kaetlyn LiddyKaetlyn Liddy is a newsroom coordinator for NBC News Digital.
Upon winning the gold medal in Tuesday’s team final, Biles posted a photo to Instagram with the caption, “lack of talent, lazy, olympic champions,” which appeared to be a reference to controversial comments made by MyKayla Skinner during the U.S. Olympic trials.
Now, Skinner has reportedly blocked Biles on social media, according to an Instagram story posted by newly-minted gold medalist Jordan Chiles and a post on X by Biles.
“I feel like the talent and the depth just isn’t what it used to be ... obviously, a lot of the girls don’t work as hard,” Skinner said in a YouTube video that has since been deleted.
Though she said Biles was an exception to this observation, Skinner faced swift criticism for disparaging the work ethic of the current U.S. team and issued an apology on social media.
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5h ago / 5:43 AM EDT
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Age is nothing but a number to Biles
Rebecca Cohen
Simone Biles rocks vault to lead U.S. team to gold
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Biles is used to her numbers coming in higher than those of most of her competitors. And when it comes to age, it’s no different.
At 27, Biles is the oldest Olympic gymnast to win a gold medal since 1964.
She and her Team USA teammates earned gold at the team final Tuesday, giving Biles’ her eighth Olympic gold medal — the most of any U.S. gymnast.
5h ago / 5:43 AM EDT
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How does gymnastics scoring work?
Kaetlyn LiddyKaetlyn Liddy is a newsroom coordinator for NBC News Digital.
For many years, understanding gymnastics was pretty simple — falls are bad, and a 10 is the best score! Some of the old rules still stand, but scoring in the sport is more complicated than it was in past decades.
Scoring in gymnastics has changed significantly since the days of Nadia Comăneci and her illustrious “Perfect 10.” The current scoring system can seem less intuitive than the previous one to audiences who do not follow the sport between the Olympic Games.
The Perfect 10 still exists in gymnastics, but it is no longer the only metric used to calculate a score. Today’s gymnasts receive scores in two separate categories for each routine: difficulty and execution. The difficulty score is open-ended, while execution is scored out of a 10.00.
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