Simone Biles, Aly Raisman, Madison Kocian Attends Golden Globe Awards

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Beverly Hills, California - Gymnasts Simone Biles (plunging white dress), Aly Raisman (custom Rita Vinieris orange dress), Madison Kocian (blue dress) looking gorgeous in their dresses attends the 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on Sunday, January 8, 2017 in Beverly Hills, California.

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Aly Raisman Attends Gold Meets Golden Event

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Los Angeles, California - Twenty two year old gymnast Aly Raisman, who completed in Rio Olympic games, looking beautiful wearing a white top, skirt and beige heels attends the Gold Meets Golden event on Saturday, January 7, 2017 in Los Angeles, California.

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Gymnasts Simone Biles, Aly Raisman Attends Sherri Hill Presentation

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New York City, New York - Gymnasts Simone Biles, Aly Raisman looking simply fabulous wearing a their dresses and heels attends the Sherri Hill presentation at Gotham Hall on Monday, September 12, 2016 in New York City.

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USA wins one gold, three silver on final day of gymnastics at 2016 Olympics

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• Men's Results: Parallel Bars | High Bar
• Women's Results: Floor Exercise
• Photo Gallery
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RIO DE JANEIRO – Simone Biles of Spring of Texas/World Champions Centre, and Aly Raisman of Needham, Mass./Brestyan's American Gymnastics, won the gold and silver medals, respectively, on the floor exercise at the 2016 Olympic Games at the Rio Olympic Arena in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The medals were the eighth and ninth for the Final Five, the 2016 Olympic team champions, for the most women’s gymnastics Olympic medals won by a country since the Soviet Union’s 10 in 1972. For the men, Danell Leyva of Miami/Team Hilton (Universal Gymnastics), claimed the parallel bars and high bar silver medals on the final day of competition. The USA mined a total of 12 medals, the most since 1984.

This is the first time the U.S. women have won nine medals at an Olympic Games. The nine medals are: four gold, four silver and one bronze. Biles’ five Olympic medals make her the most decorated U.S. gymnast at the 2016 Olympics, and her four gold medals tie the Olympic record for a female gymnast in a single Games. Including her 2016 medals, Raisman’s six career Olympic medals is the second highest total in U.S. gymnastics history behind Shannon Miller.

The 12 U.S. Olympic medals are listed below.

• Women’s team: gold
• Biles: all-around, vault and floor exercise gold, and balance beam bronze
• Hernandez: balance beam silver
• Kocian, uneven bars silver
• Leyva, parallel bars and high bar silver
• Alex Naddour of Queen Creek, Ariz./Team Hilton (USA Youth Fitness Center), pommel horse bronze
• Raisman, all-around and floor exercise silver

In the women’s floor final, Biles tumbled a layout full-out; double layout half-out (Biles); tucked double-double; and tucked full-in. Her 15.966 clinched the gold medal. Opening with her trademark one-and-a-half twist to double Arabian, punch layout front, Raisman scored a 15.500 to win silver. Great Britain’s Amy Tinkler claimed the bronze at 14.933.

Leyva captured two silvers on the final day of competition. On parallel bars, he capped off his magnificent routine with a stuck double front dismount to score a 15.900 and win the silver medal. Ukraine’s Oleg Verniaiev claimed gold with a 16.041 and David Belyavskiy of Russia earned the bronze (15.783).

Leyva performed a thrilling routine in the horizontal bar final with a layout Kovacs, Kolman and a double-twisting double layout dismount to score a 15.500, which earned the silver medal. Sam Mikulak of Newport Coast, Calif./Team Hilton (U.S. Olympic Training Center), hit his routine including a Cassina, Kolman and double twisting double layout dismount to score a 15.400 for fourth place. Germany’s Fabian Hambuechen won the title with his 15.766, and Nile Wilson of Great Britain finished third (15.466).

Gymnastics competition has concluded and wraps up its Olympics with two sessions of the gala on Aug. 17 at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. Rio time.

Ways to follow the action

• NBC. NBC is the broadcast and web source for coverage and news on the Olympic Games.
  • Aug. 16, individual event finals, 8 p.m. ET, NBC
• NBCOlympics.com. NBCOlympics.com carries live and archived coverage of every gymnastics session as well as all sports.
• USAGym2016.com. Original stories, athlete bios, schedules, results and more are available at usagym2016.com.
• USAGym.org. The USA Gymnastics official website is a great source for information about the sport: latest news, the schedule of its premier events, athlete biographies, videos, photo galleries and more.
• TeamUSA.org. The U.S. Olympic Committee’s website will also be a good resource for information on the Team USA in Rio.
• Social Media. USA Gymnastics is providing live updates and exclusive content, including interviews and photos, on Facebook and Twitter (@USAGym).

Team USA Gymnastics Team, Simone Biles Covers Kellogg's Special K Red Berries Boxes

Team Kellogg's™ Athlete And USA Gymnastics Celebrate Gold Medal Wins With Time Honored Kellogg's Tradition
BATTLE CREEK, Mich.  -- In celebration of Simone Biles' individual all-around gold medal win, as well as U.S. women's gymnastics win in the team competition, Kellogg's® has announced that they will be featured on gold medal edition boxes of Kellogg's Special K® Red Berries. The boxes feature Simone's medal image on one side and Team USA's image on the other, as Kellogg's first-ever double-sided pack honoring two distinct achievements. Boxes are available in limited quantities for a short time only on KelloggsFamilyRewards.com.

"We couldn't be prouder of Simone and the women's team after all of their incredible achievements here in Rio representing Team USA," said Noel Geoffroy, Senior Vice President, Marketing & Innovation for Kellogg'sU.S. Morning Foods. "We're excited to continue the time-honored tradition of showcasing America's champions on Kellogg's cereal boxes following their remarkable success at the 2016 Olympic Games. By highlighting what gets her started each day – the support of her teammates - Simone has shown us the daily motivations that drive her to be the best gymnast in the world and helped her reach her full potential at her first Games."

The gold medal edition Kellogg's Special K Red Berries cereal boxes are available now free of charge on KelloggsFamilyRewards.com, while supplies last. Fans can visit KelloggsFamilyRewards.com for information about how to become a member and order their very own collectible box. You can also view Simone's #GetsMeStarted video on Youtube and learn more about her journey to Rio at kelloggs.com/teamusa.

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Biles wins gold, Raisman silver in women's all-around at 2016 Olympic Games

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• Results
• Photo Gallery
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, Aug. 11, 2016 -- Simone Biles of Spring, Texas/World Champions Centre, and Aly Raisman of Needham, Mass./Brestyan’s American Gymnastics, won the gold and silver medals, respectively, in the all-around at the 2016 Olympic Games held at Rio’s Olympic Arena in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Biles, a three-time World all-around champion (2013-15), is the fourth female gymnast in Olympic history to capture back-to-back World and Olympic all-around titles. She joins Gabby Douglas (2012), Nastia Liukin (2008), Carly Patterson (2004), and Mary Lou Retton (1984), as the only U.S. women’s gymnasts to win an Olympic all-around title.

Biles finished with a score of 62.198, followed by Raisman with a 60.098, and Russia’s Aliya Mustafina who earned the bronze with a 58.665. The 1-2 finish marks only the second time in history the U.S. has swept the top two spots on the podium in the women’s all-around competition. Nastia Liukin and Shawn Johnson earned gold and silver at the 2008 Olympics Games in Beijing, China. Biles’ victory gives the United States a fourth consecutive gold medal in the women’s all-around.

All-around scores for USA

• Simone Biles: all-around, 62.198; vault, 15.866; uneven bars, 14.966; balance beam, 15.433; floor, 15.933.
• Aly Raisman: all-around, 60.098; vault, 15.633; uneven bars, 14.166; balance beam, 14.866; floor, 15.433.

Event highlights

• Vault: Biles – Amanar; Raisman – Amanar.
• Uneven bars
  • Biles – toe-on full pirouette; Tkatchev; piked Tkatchev to Pak salto; dismounts with a full-twisting double back.
  • Raisman – Maloney, Tkatchev; Jaeger; Overshoot, Stalder full pirouette; double front dismount.
• Balance beam
  • Biles – opened with a two-and-a-half wolf turn; barani; back handspring, layout, layout series; front aerial; dismounts with a full-twisting double back.
  • Raisman – pike front to open; back handspring to two foot layout; Arabian double front dismount.
• Floor exercise
  • Biles – opened with a full-twisting double layout; Biles to a split jump; tucked double-double; ends with a tucked full-in.
  • Raisman – one-and-a-half through to Arabian double front, punch layout; Arabian double pike to stag jump; double layout; closes with a double pike.

Individual finals

• Aug 14: men -- floor exercise, Mikulak and Dalton, and pommel horse, Naddour; women – vault, Biles and uneven bars, Kocian and Douglas.
• Aug. 15: men – still rings, vault; women – balance beam, Biles and Hernandez
• Aug. 16: men – parallel bars, Leyva, and horizontal bar, Leyva and Mikulak; women – floor exercise, Biles and Raisman.

Ways to follow the action
NBC is the broadcast and web source for coverage and news on the Olympic Games.

• NBC Olympics.com. NBCOlympics.com will carry live coverage of every gymnastics session as well as all sports, and maintain an archive for on-demand coverage. The gymnastics schedule is listed below.
  • Aug. 14, individual event finals, 1 p.m. ET
  • Aug. 15, individual event finals, 1 p.m. ET
  • Aug. 16, individual event finals, 1 p.m. ET
• NBC. Gymnastics coverage is expected to appear in the primetime broadcast.
  • Aug. 11, women’s all-around final, 8 p.m. ET

USA Gymnastics and the United States Olympic Committee are also providing easy ways to follow the action from Rio.

• USAGym2016.com. Original stories, athlete bios, schedules, results and more are available at usagym2016.com.
• USAGym.org. The USA Gymnastics official website is a great source for information about the sport: latest news, the schedule of its premier events, athlete biographies, videos, photo galleries and more.
• TeamUSA.org. The U.S. Olympic Committee’s website will also be a good resource for information on the Team USA in Rio.
• Social Media. USA Gymnastics is providing live updates and exclusive content, including interviews and photos, on Facebook and Twitter (@USAGym).

At a Glance: Team USA Takes Repeat Gold Medals in Women’s Gymnastics

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By Jo-Ann Barnas, Special Contributor For USA Gymnastics

Unbeatable then. Unstoppable now.

The most dominate team in the world the last three years now has an Olympic gold medal to prove it.

The U.S. Olympic women’s gymnastics team easily defended the team title it won in London with a masterful performance Tuesday at the Rio Olympic Arena.

Led by three-time World champion Simone Biles, the U.S. women became the first back-to-back Olympic team gold medalists since Romania in 2000 and 2004.

They did it by winning each event en route to an 184.897 total score, more than eight points ahead of silver-medalist Russia. China won the bronze medal.

The Americans had a .700 lead after vault, their first rotation, and extended it to 4.026 after uneven bars and 4.961 after balance beam.

The team of Biles, Aly Raisman, Laurie Hernandez, Gabby Douglas and Madison Kocian gave a sneak preview of how good they intended to be when they rolled through team qualifying on Sunday, finishing nearly 10 points higher than the second-best team, China.

The women's competition continues for U.S. all-arounders Biles and Raisman on Thursday.

Call them the 'Final Five' - U.S. women's team selects team nickname

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By Jo-Ann Barnas, Special Contributor For USA Gymnastics

RIO DE JANEIRO -- The wait is over. Meet your "Final Five."

The much-anticipated nickname of the 2016 U.S. Olympic women's gymnastics team was unveiled moments after the Americans defended of their team gold this afternoon at the Rio Olympic Arena.

Simone Biles, Aly Raisman, Gabby Douglas, Madison Kocian and Laurie Hernandez settled on the nickname after a team vote last week. And it wasn't easy keeping it under wraps. Everyone from journalists to media celebrities like Ryan Seacrest had been trying to coax it out of them the past few days -- especially after the U.S. women's dominating performance in Sunday's qualifying.

According to USA Gymnastics Senior Vice President Rhonda Faehn, the "Final Five" nickname was selected because Rio will be the final Olympics featuring five team members; the sizes have been reduced to four starting at the 2020 Olympics.

Coincidently, it also happens to be the number of U.S. Olympic teams that retiring national team coordinator Martha Karolyi has overseen since succeeding husband Bela in 2001, leading the U.S. women to team silver or gold the last three games.

The Final Five follows on the heels of their gold-medal predecessors, the "Fierce Five." The 2012 Olympic team revealed that nickname before the team final in London, with Raisman, Douglas, Jordyn Wieber, McKayla Maroney and Kyla Ross living up to its billing as the team went on to outscore silver medalist Russia by more than five points. It was the second team gold for the U.S since 1996's Magnificent Seven, and first on international soil.

The team members who made up the Magnificent Seven and produced Team USA's first-ever women's gymnastics gold at the Atlanta Games were: Shannon Miller, Dominique Moceanu, Dominique Dawes, Kerri Strug, Amy Chow, Amanda Borden and Jaycie Phelps.

USA Lady Gymnasts Gabby Douglas, Simone Biles, Aly Raisman, Maggie Nichols, Madison Kocian Attends 2016 Team USA Media Summit

Beverly Hills, California - Team USA's lady gymnasts Gabrielle  Douglas, Simone Biles, Aly Raisman, Maggie Nichols and Madison Kocian posed for portraits and some addressed the media as they attended the USOC Olympic Media Summit at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on Monday, March 7, 2016 in Beverly Hills, California.

Aly Raisman Attends U.S. Olympic Committee Best of U.S. Awards

Washington, DC - Nineteen year old Olympian gymnast Aly Raisman looked beautiful in a blue dress with black high heels as she stepped out on a Wednesday night to attend the U.S. Olympic Committee's Best of U.S. Awards held at Warner Theatre on April 2, 2014 in Washington, DC.

Alexandra Rose "Aly" Raisman born May 25, 1994 is an American artistic gymnast. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she was captain of the gold medal-winning US women's gymnastics team and individually won a gold medal on the floor and a bronze medal on the balance beam. She was also on the US teams that won a silver medal at the 2010 World Championships and a gold medal at the 2011 World Championships. In 2013, she appeared on Dancing with the Stars.