{"id":486000,"date":"2024-08-05T09:51:06","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T13:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=486000"},"modified":"2024-08-05T09:51:06","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T13:51:06","slug":"biles-falls-and-misses-olympic-medal-stand","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/biles-falls-and-misses-olympic-medal-stand\/","title":{"rendered":"Biles falls and misses Olympic medal stand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\">Simone Biles will not win a medal on the balance beam this time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\">Biles slipped and fell off the apparatus at the end of her acrobatic series at the beam in the French capital today, denying her a chance to add to the bronzes she secured at the event in the previous 2 Olympics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\">The American gymnastics superstar was more than halfway through her set when she slipped. Simone received a score of 13.100, evened with U.S. teammate Sunisa Lee for 4<sup>th<\/sup> place.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\">It took a more than the usual time to learn Biles score as she Simone felt that she is not going to win a medal and was very emotional during the wait.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\">Italian Alice D&#8217;Amato won the gold medal with a score of 14.366 while Chinese Zhou Yaqin finished with the silver medal with a 14.100 score just ahead of another Italian Manila Esposito.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Simone Biles did not receive a medal in the gymnastics balance beam final after falling during her routine \ud83d\udc47<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s her first event at the 2024 Olympics that she did not receive a gold medal in \ud83e\udd47 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AonwgToe0K\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/AonwgToe0K<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sky Sports News (@SkySportsNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkySportsNews\/status\/1820435431751627138?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 5, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simone Biles will not win a medal on the balance beam this time. Biles slipped and fell off the apparatus at the end [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":486001,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18356,20158,20157],"news_category":[20292,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[18357,20160,20159],"acf":{"announce":"Simone slipped off the balance beam.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/486000"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486000"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/486000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":486003,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/486000\/revisions\/486003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486000"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=486000"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=486000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}