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Showing posts with label Simone Biles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Simone Biles. Show all posts
Monday, January 9, 2017
Simone Biles, Aly Raisman, Madison Kocian Attends Golden Globe Awards
Sunday, January 8, 2017
Simone Biles Attends Gold Meets Golden Event
Sunday, December 11, 2016
Simone Biles Attends The Hollywood Reporter's 25th Annual Women In Entertainment Breakfast
Monday, December 5, 2016
Simone Biles Attends 2016 Ebony Power 100 Gala
Sunday, November 20, 2016
Simone Biles Attends 1st Annual Marie Claire Young Women's Honors
Tuesday, November 15, 2016
Simone Biles Attends Glamour Women Of The Year 2016
Wednesday, November 2, 2016
Gymnasts Alexandra Raisman, Gabby Douglas, Laurie Hernandez, Madison Kocian, Simone Biles Attends 50th Annual CMA Awards
Wednesday, September 14, 2016
Gymnast Simone Biles Attends Vera Wang Collection Fashion Show
Gymnasts Simone Biles, Aly Raisman Attends Sherri Hill Presentation
Monday, August 22, 2016
Final Five, Biles are among Olympic finalists for USOC's Team USA Awards presented by Dow, Best of the Games
© John Cheng
The Team USA Awards honor the athletes and teams of the Games in six categories:
- Female Athlete of the Olympic Games, presented by DICK’S Sporting Goods
- Male Athlete of the Olympic Games
- Team of the Olympic Games, presented by Dow
- Female Athlete of the Paralympic Games, presented by DICK’S Sporting Goods
- Male Athlete of the Paralympic Games, presented by The Hartford
- Team of the Paralympic Games, presented by Dow
Saturday, August 20, 2016
Simone Biles selected as Team USA’s Closing Ceremony flag bearer for Rio 2016 Olympic Games
Four-time Olympic champion Biles becomes first gymnast to lead
U.S. Olympic delegation into Closing Ceremony
U.S. Olympic delegation into Closing Ceremony
RIO DE JANEIRO – Four-time Olympic champion Simone Biles was selected to lead the 2016 U.S. Olympic Team into Sunday's (Aug. 21) Closing Ceremony as flag bearer, as announced today by the United States Olympic Committee. Biles was chosen by a vote of fellow Team USA members.
In her Olympic debut, Biles won team and individual gold medals in the women’s all-around, vault and floor exercise, also adding a fifth medal – bronze – on balance beam. She became the first American gymnast to win four golds at a single Games and one of only four women to accomplish the feat in Olympic history, joining Larissa Latynina (1956), Vera Caslavska (1968) and Ekaterina Szabo (1984).
"It's an incredible honor to be selected as the flag bearer by my Team USA teammates,” said Biles. “This experience has been the dream of a lifetime for me and my team and I consider it a privilege to represent my country, the United States Olympic Committee and USA Gymnastics by carrying our flag. I also wish to thank the city of Rio de Janeiro, and the entire country of Brazil, for hosting an incredible Games.”
Widely considered the best gymnast of her generation, Biles’ Olympic medal haul extended her U.S. record to 18 individual medals combined in world and Olympic competition over the last three years. Her historic performance propelled the U.S. women’s gymnastics team to a total of nine medals in Rio, surpassing the team’s previous high of eight from the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008. The nine medals are the most won by any women’s team since the Soviet Union claimed 10 medals at the 1972 Olympics in Munich.
Biles is only the second gymnast to serve as Team USA’s flag bearer, in either the Opening or Closing Ceremony, and the first-ever female gymnast to earn the honor. Alfred Jochim is the only other American gymnast to previously serve as flag bearer, leading the U.S. delegation into the Opening Ceremony of the 1936 Olympic Games.
U.S Olympic Team Flag Bearers – Closing Ceremony
1952 Bob Kurland, Basketball
1956 Pete Rademacher, Boxing
1960 Mike Troy, Swimming
1964 Don Schollander, Swimming
1968 Al Oerter, Track and Field
1972 Mike Burton, Swimming
1976 Willie Davenport, Track and Field
1984 Jeff Blatnick Wresting
1988 Terry Schroeder, Water Polo
1992 Peter Westbrook, Fencing
1996 Michael Matz, Equestrian
2000 Rulon Gardner, Wrestling
2004 Mia Hamm, Soccer
2008 Khatuna Lorig, Archery
2012 Bryshon Nellum, Track and Field
2016 Simone Biles, Gymnastics
Tuesday, August 16, 2016
USA wins one gold, three silver on final day of gymnastics at 2016 Olympics
© John Cheng
- Men's Results: Parallel Bars | High Bar
- Women's Results: Floor Exercise
- Photo Gallery
- USAGym2016.com
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
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).
Monday, August 15, 2016
Hernandez, Biles win balance beam medals at 2016 Olympic Games
© John Cheng
- Men's Results: Still Rings | Vault
- Women's Results: Balance Beam
- Photo Gallery
- USAGym2016.com
The U.S. gymnasts competing on the last day of event finals are: floor exercise – Biles and Aly Raisman of Needham, Mass./Brestyan’s American Gymnastics; parallel bars – Danell Leyva of Miami/Team Hilton (Universal Gymnastics); and horizontal bar – Leyva and Sam Mikulak of Newport Coast, Calif./Team Hilton (U.S. Olympic Training Center).
Hernandez was nearly flawless in her beam routine, which included a front pike; back handspring,
Sunday, August 14, 2016
Biles earns Team USA's first ever gold medal on vault
© John Cheng
- Men's Results: Floor Exercise | Pommel Horse
- Women's Results: Vault | Uneven Bars
- Photo Gallery
- USAGym2016.com
Biles' first vault was a powerful Amanar, scoring a 15.900. Her second vault, a Cheng, earned a
BREAKING: USA's Simone Biles Wins Gold On Vault
Her first vault was 15.900 and second, 16.033 with an average of 15.966.
More to come....
Friday, August 12, 2016
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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Thursday, August 11, 2016
Biles wins gold, Raisman silver in women's all-around at 2016 Olympic Games
© John Cheng
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.
- 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.
- 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.
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
- 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).
Tuesday, August 9, 2016
At a Glance: Team USA Takes Repeat Gold Medals in Women’s Gymnastics
© John Cheng
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
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.
Monday, July 11, 2016
Biles wins all-around at 2016 U.S. Olympic Team Trials; U.S. Olympic Women's Gymnastics Team named
© John Cheng
The complete women's U.S. Olympic Team, pending United States Olympic Committee approval, is
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