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The balance beam is a rectangular artistic gymnastics apparatus and an event performed using the apparatus. The apparatus and the event are sometimes simply called "beam". The English abbreviation for the event in gymnastics scoring is BB. The balance beam is performed competitively only by female gymnasts.
Simone Biles slipped off the balance beam and incurred costly penalties on the floor as she failed to win a gold medal for the first time at these Summer Olympics.
On balance beam, a series of acrobatic skills performed in combination from one end of the beam to the other. Flip A move where the gymnast will jump from a handstand;forwards or backward landing facing the same direction. Floor A gymnastics apparatus used in artistic gymnastics. The event performed upon this apparatus is known as Floor Exercise.
The women's balance beam competition has been held in every year since its inception. Three medals are awarded: gold for first place, silver for second place, and bronze for third place. Tie breakers have not been used in every year. In the event of a tie between two gymnasts, both names are listed, and the following position (second for a tie ...
The balance beam final was Lee's last event in Paris, in what was a thrilling competition for the 21-year-old. Biles and her teammate, Jordan Chiles, are set to compete in the last final of the ...
She won gold in the first three of those events at the 2016 Olympics, plus a bronze on balance beam. Biles, 24, was forced to withdraw from the team competition last Tuesday after a single rotation.
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An unusually quiet arena may have played a factor in a shaky balance beam final for Simone Biles, Sunisa Lee and a handful of other event finalists Monday. Biles, Lee, Brazil's Julia Soares and ...