Simone Biles and the U.S. women's gymnastics team will compete today in qualifying for the 2024 Paris Olympics. Suni Lee and Jordan Chiles will compete in the individual all-around with Simone Biles, while Jade Carey and Hesly Rivera will each compete in two events. (Looking for more matches from today's Olympics? Follow all other Olympic results and live updates.)
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Will Simone Biles compete today?
Yes. Biles will compete today for a spot in the individual all-around final on Thursday, August 1, while the U.S. women's gymnastics team will compete for a spot in the team final on Tuesday, July 30. Here is Simone Biles' Olympic competition schedule.
When will the US gymnastics team compete in the Paris Olympics?
Biles, Jordan Chiles, Suni Lee, Jade Carey and Hezly Rivera will compete in the second division today, starting at 5:40 a.m. ET.
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What time does the women's gymnastics competition start today at the Paris Olympics?
The women's gymnastics preliminaries will begin with Part 1 at 3:30 a.m. ET.
How to watch gymnastics at the Paris Olympics
Peacock will live stream the entire qualifying session, while NBC will broadcast live coverage of Simone Biles and the U.S. women's gymnastics team's second-division matches.
Jessica Chastain, Shaun White among Olympic gymnastics celebrities
This morning, a crowd of celebrity fans are gathered at the Bercy Arena, presumably to watch Simone Biles. Oscar-winning actress Jessica Chastain is sitting with her family in the north section of the arena, near the vault, a few rows up from American snowboarder Shaun White and his girlfriend, Nina Dobrev. Businessman David Lauren, son of the clothing designer of the same name, Ralph Lauren, is sitting nearby.
Today's team qualifying event is much anticipated as it will be Biles' first appearance at the Paris Olympics, where she is expected to add to her gold medal tally. Biles and the rest of the U.S. team will begin competing on the balance beam just after 11:40 a.m. local time (5:40 a.m. Eastern Time).
How many medals does Simone Biles have?
Simone Biles is the most decorated gymnast of all time with 37 World and Olympic medals. To put that in perspective, that's more medals than any men's team has ever won. That's total. China's original five-man team had 37 medals, but they changed it before the qualifiers and now they only have 34. Oh, and the men participate in two more events than the women. That means Biles has accumulated medals despite fewer opportunities.
How do Olympic gymnastics qualifications work?
All gymnasts must qualify, whether they compete as part of a team or as an individual. How many events a gymnast competes in depends on whether they are aiming to reach the individual all-around final and whether they are one of the 12 countries in the team sport that needs them most.
Four athletes compete in each event in the preliminaries, where teams can drop their lowest score. The top eight teams after the preliminaries advance to Tuesday's team finals, where scores will be calculated from the beginning. The U.S. women are the favorites to win the gold medal.
The top 24 all-around skaters will advance to Thursday's final, where Biles will hope to become the first skater since 1968 and just the third skater in history to win a second Olympic title. The top eight skaters in each event will advance to the individual finals from Aug. 3-5.
But with a limit of two athletes from each country in the all-around and event finals, it's likely at least one American will miss the event.
USA Women's Gymnastics Olympic Qualifier Lineup
Suni Lee and Jordan Chiles will compete in the all-around alongside Simone Biles, meaning the team's only non-Olympians, 16-year-old Jade Carey and Hezly Rivera, will compete in two events each: Carey will compete on vault and floor exercise, where she is the reigning Olympic champion, while Rivera will compete on uneven bars and balance beam.
- Balance beam: Chiles, Rivera, Lee, Biles.
- Floor Exercises: Lee, Chiles, Carey, Biles.
- safe: Lee, Chiles, Carey, Biles.
- Uneven bars: Rivera, Chiles, Biles, Lee.
Who will anchor each event for USA Women's Gymnastics?
The U.S. women's team will start on the balance beam and finish on the uneven bars. Biles will anchor in all events except the uneven bars, where Li will act as the anchor. The uneven bars are Li's specialty, and she won a bronze medal there at the Tokyo Olympics in addition to her gold in the all-around. Biles will be second-to-last on the balance beam. Biles, Carey and Chiles are each scheduled to vault twice, with the hopes of advancing to the vault final.
Olympic Gymnastics Scoring: How It Works?
Gymnastics routines are scored two ways: difficulty (also known as the D-score or opening value), and execution. Every gymnastic routine has a numerical value, and the D-score is the sum of the skills in the routine. The execution score (E-score) reflects how well the skills were performed. A gymnast starts at 10.0, and from there points are deducted for flaws or incorrect form. The D-score and E-score are added together to get the total for that apparatus (vault is always scored higher because it is a single skill).
Gymnastics Olympics Schedule
The full gymnastics schedule for the Paris Olympics is here.
- Qualifiers will begin on Sunday, July 28th at 3:30 AM ET.
- The women's team final will begin at 12:15pm ET on Tuesday, July 30th.
- The women's individual all-around final will take place on Thursday, August 1 at 12:15 pm ET.
- The women's vault final will take place on Saturday, August 3 at 10:20 a.m. ET.
- The women's uneven bars final will take place on Sunday, August 4 at 9:40 a.m. ET.
- The women's balance beam final (6:36 a.m. ET) and floor exercise final (8:20 a.m.) will take place on Monday, Aug. 5.
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