Olympic women’s gymnastics: Results, highlights, analysis from all-around final with Simone Biles, Suni Lee

Biles will compete in the vault final Saturday, beam final Monday and floor final on Monday.

Suni will compete in the uneven bars final on Sunday and beam final on Monday.

Thank you to everyone who neglected their normal jobs to watch gymnastics with us for the last few hours!

This gold is Biles’ sixth career gold medal and second Olympic all-around crown.

Biles, who became the most decorated gymnast (man or woman) after winning gold earlier this week in the team final, now has nine career Olympic medals.

This is the seventh Olympic all-around gold for the American women and the sixth consecutive gold for the Americans in this event.

American Olympic All-Around Champions

• Mary Lou Retton - LA 1984
• Carly Patterson - Athens 2004
• Nastia Liukin - Beijing 2008
• Gabby Douglas - London 2012
• Simone Biles- Rio 2016
• Suni Lee - Tokyo 2020
• Simone Biles - Paris 2024

Biles is back on top with the gold medal!

Andrade takes second!

And Lee earns bronze!

This is the first time two Olympic all-around champions have been on the same Olympic medal podium.

At this very moment, Taylor Swift is performing the Eras Tour in Warsaw.

And Biles is performing her floor routine that begins with “Ready For It.”

Biles opens with a HUGE triple double (Biles II)

Huge smile after doing the Biles I!

Smiles all around!

Andrade secures at least a silver with a 14.033 on floor.

Just Biles to go.

Biles needs a 13.867 to win her second Olympic all-around title.

Lee is guaranteed a medal!

Lee sticks her full twisting double layout to open her floor routine and can’t contain the smile!

It’s going to be CLOSE.

Nemour goes out of bounds on her second tumbling pass.

She also comes in really short on her final tumbling pass.

Great fight in that routine!

After winning the all-around gold at the Tokyo Olympics, she enrolled at Auburn University two weeks later. She was named the Sports Illustrated Female Athlete of the Year in 2021

Lee was diagnosed with two types of kidney disease in 2023. She competed at an all-around elite meet for the first time since Tokyo at the U.S. Championships in early June.

Lee needs a 13.535 on her floor routine to move ahead of D’Amato. She recorded a 13.100 in the qualification round and a 13.533 on floor in the team final.

D’Amato has had a stellar Olympics so far. She helped her team win the silver medal in the team final (Italy’s first Olympic medal in 96 years) and has put herself in medal position here!

She went out of bounds on her double double opening tumbling pass but hits the rest of her routine nicely!

Andrade is in second place on the leaderboard entering the final rotation.

Fun facts bout the Brazilian gymnast include that her nickname is Rebeyoncé due to her love for Beyoncé. She used both “Crazy in Love” and “Single Ladies” as part of her floor routine music at the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Here are where things stand entering the final rotation:

1. Simone Biles - 44.065
   
2. Rebeca Andrade - 43.899
   
3. Alice D’Amato - 42.833
   
4. Kaylia Nemour and Suni Lee - 42.799

Biles only has a small lead of 0.166. However, Biles has almost a point more in difficulty than Andrade on floor.

Alice D’Amato is currently in second place on the leaderboard.

The Italian gymnast finished 20th in the all-around at the Tokyo Olympics, and then improved to fifth at the 2023 World Championships.

She has a twin sister named Asia who is also a gymnast.

Also, D’Amato names Biles as one of her heroes!

GREAT save from Andrade on her acrobatic series.

She lifted her leg up but fought to stay on!

She looked relieved to be done with that routine!

A few wobbles from Lee on beam and a step forward on the landing.

This was a big opportunity for her to make up some ground.

She still manages a 14.000!

Biles up on beam - this is a critical routine for her after the mistake in the previous rotation.

Slight balance check on the side aerial but otherwise it was a very solid routine.

14.566 - that’s a huge score for Biles! That should put her in a good position with just the floor exercise to go.

She’s on a mission!

And Biles’ family loves it! Her husband, Jonathan Owens rocking a “Team Biles” shirt in the stands!

Here’s where we stand at the halfway point:

1. Rebeca Andrade - 29.766
   
2. Kaylia Nemour - 29.566
   
3. Simone Biles - 29.499
   
4. Alice D’Amato - 28.800
   
5. Suni Lee - 28.799

Lee delivers a STUNNING uneven bar routine for a 14.866!

The French-born Nemour (now representing her father’s home country of Algeria), shows a beautiful routine on uneven bars.

This routine is packed with difficulty thanks to her seamless connections.

This is another athlete to watch out for in the uneven bar finals as a gold medal favorite!

Nemour moves ahead of Biles after posting a monster score on uneven bars (15.533).

Notice the distinctive colors of the equipment and arena?

According to Luisa Blanco, who was born in the U.S. but is representing Columbia in today’s all-around final, everybody is calling the Bercy Arena “the Barbie Dreamhouse.” The designs are Art Deco-inspired and a nod to 1924, the last time Paris hosted the Olympics.”

Biles does not go for the new skill at the start of her routine.

She mistimed her piked Tkatchev to Pak Salto and had a large knee bend. As a result, she also took an extra swing to get her rhythm back.

13.733 is the final score.

At the halfway point Biles drops behind Andrade by just 0.267.

Andrade kicks off the second rotation on uneven bars and she rocks it!

Excellent job hitting those handstand positions, just a small hop on the landing.

Steph Curry, Tony Hawk and Zinedine Zidane among the stars that have been spotted!

In the second rotation, watch for Biles to potentially debut a new skill: a clear hip circle forward with 1.5 turns.

If she performs the skill, it would be Biles’ sixth eponymous skill and the first one to be named after her on the uneven bars.

Missed opportunity for China’s Qiuyan on uneven bars, who unfortunately fell on one of her release moves.

Watch out for this one in the uneven bar finals in just a few days because she’s a favorite for gold!

Biles opens her competition with a HUGE Yurchenko double pike on the vault.

In the team final she opted for a lower start value vault (the Cheng), so bringing the Yurchenko double pike back provides a huge boost for her scoring potential.

With a 15.766 for Biles, she is 0.666 ahead of Andrade after the first rotation.

USA basketball player has a few thoughts on Biles’ vault:

Andrade, the reigning world champion on vault, nails her Cheng!

Andrade achieved so much height, and scores a 15.100!

Lee gets her competition started with a powerful Yurchenko double twist. She takes a pretty large hop back on the landing, but a solid start.

Lee gets a 13.933 for her vault, that’s 0.967 lower than what she scored in qualifications.

Here are the leotards Biles and Lee are wearing today!

1. Rebeca Andrade (Brazil): is the Tokyo silver medalist in this event and is considered Biles’ toughest competitor.
   
2. Kaylia Nemour (Algeria): At 17 years old, she is known for her uneven bars routine. No African nation has ever claimed an Olympic gymnastics medal before.
   
3. Alice D’Amato (Italy): Helped lead the Italian team to its first team medal in 96 years.
   
4. Qiu Qiyuan (China): Would become China’s first female gymnast to win Olympic gold in the all-around.

As we near the start of competition, here’s a small taste of the history that could be made today.

• This is the first Olympic all-around final featuring two Olympic all-around champions: Biles in 2016 and Lee in 2020.

• If Biles wins, she will become just the third woman in history to win the all-around gold medal twice, joining Larisa Latynina (1956 and 1960) and Vera Caslavska (1964 and 1968).
  
• At age 27, Biles can also become the oldest women’s all-around Olympic gold medalist since the Soviet Union’s Maria Gorokhovskaya, who won the gold medal in 1952 at age 30.
  
• If Biles or Lee win gold, it will be the seventh Olympic all-around gold for the American women and the sixth consecutive gold for the Americans in this event.

Scottie Scheffler will never forget the women’s team final!

What celebrities do you think we can expect to be there for the individual all-around final today?

Biles and Lee, with 12 combined Olympic medals between the two of them, are in the building.

Paul Juda and Frederick Richard, who helped the men’s team win bronze earlier this week, have a message for Biles and Lee!

Let’s get ready for the women’s individual all-around final!

The gymnasts will compete on all four apparatus (vault, uneven bars, balance beam, floor) with the four scores tallied up to determine an individual champion.

Biles and Lee finished first and third respectively in the qualifying round, but scores from qualifying are not carried over so all 24 participants will begin Thursday’s competition at zero.