SecondIt was exciting until the last practice: the new gymnastics Olympic all-around champion became an American for the fifth time in a row. Her name is Sunisa Lee.This is just a surprise, because the whole world thinks it will become the 2016 Olympic champion, teammate Simone Byers, Who watched the game in the stands. Like Li, Rebeca Andrade from Brazil came in second, and Angelina Melnikowa from Russia came in third.
This final is really important: about ten gymnasts are eligible for medals. It is precisely because of this that the four-round competition in which six gymnasts perform actions on the equipment at the same time has developed into a kind of knock-out gymnastics: those who have not fallen or made a big mistake remain in the competition.
In the first round, the top six in the qualifiers started on the vault, and everything was perfect. The only difference is the difficulty level. Rebeca Andrade led the so-called Cheng with 6.0 points, ahead of the American gymnast Jade Carey, who replaced Biles in the game, also showed the same jump . The difficulty of the contestants is 5.4-6/10, and no amount of execution can keep up. In the first round, Chinese player Lu Yufei was eliminated because of a fall on parallel bars.
Team colleague Tang Xijing was hit in the second round and fell off the crossbar. Just like the young Englishman Jessica Gadilova, she is also a novelty, reaching the finals with her twin sister Jennifer. The top six teams made no mistakes. Sunisa Lee took a small lead.
Better than the previous Byers
In the US internal knockout in June, Lee had already defeated Byers in a four-a-side game. Her life is full of fate: after her father was paralyzed from a garden ladder shortly before participating in the World Cup for the first time in 2019, the 18-year-old girl lost several close relatives who died of COVID-19 this year. She is the first American Olympic starter from the Hmong community of indigenous peoples in East and Southeast Asia.
In the third round, her team colleague Jade Carey withdrew from the competition. Otherwise, no top gymnast is naked. Andrade and Melnikova are the only two people who have experience in the 2016 Rio Olympics, followed closely behind. In the interim results, the oldest gymnast in the field, 32-year-old Kim Bui from Stuttgart, ranked eighth in a short time. In the third Olympic Games, she entered the all-around final for the first time, and she should be satisfied with the impeccable competition and the 17th place in the final result.
At this point, it is clear that in this final, the best matchup will actually be played on the last device. The starting sequence is set so that the gymnasts with the best qualifications will be ranked last in the competition. So Rebecca Andrade has mastered it. Alone: Your feet leave the boundary of the floor area twice. The corresponding deductions cost her the gold medal, but the 22-year-old player qualified for the solo start of these games after three cruciate ligaments tore on the same knee, and did not feel sad for the silver medal. Elisabeth Seitz was not noticed by all this. With her last device, the parallel bars, she won an extraordinary ninth place. She stood on the parallel bars on Sunday, hoping to win a medal in the final.
