Who will replace her? Biles was the top qualifier, and only the gymnasts with the top 24 scores from the qualifying round are eligible for the all-around. In addition, in order to give as many countries as possible a chance to participate, only two gymnasts per country can compete.
For the U. Jade Carey , one of the additional members of the U. Read more: Meet the U. Carey took advantage of a new Olympic qualifying system in which she participated in the Apparatus World Cup Series over the last three years, and her scores assured her of an individual invitation to the Olympic squad; with that individual spot, however, she could not compete in the team event.
Strong on vault and floor, Carey, an Arizona native who trains with her father Brian, is a consistent competitor. Biles also qualified for all four event finals, and said she will take each day at a time before deciding whether she will compete in those events. Only the top eight qualifiers compete in each event final, with a maximum of two per country. Sunday's qualifying also determines the 24 gymnasts who will move on to Thursday's all-around competition and the eight who advance to the finals in each individual event.
Though the U. In Tokyo, she could get another gymnastics skill named for her if she performs her Yurchenko double pike vault, which she did in a practice session last week. Biles, 24, came back for her second Olympics after winning five medals in Rio: gold in team, all-around, floor exercise and vault, and bronze on beam. Suni Lee of St. Paul finished second to Biles in the all-around standings at last month's Olympic trials.
She actually outscored Biles on day two of the competition, something that no gymnast had done since A standout on bars, Lee performs a routine considered the most difficult in the world and is the favorite to win gold in that event. At the world championships, Lee reached the all-around finals, finishing eighth, and brought home medals in team gold , floor exercise silver and bars bronze.
McCallum, an Isanti native, was a discretionary pick for the Olympic team after a fourth-place finish at the trials. She's a solid all-arounder who helped the U. The team also includes Jordan Chiles, who trains with Biles in Texas and was third in the all-around at the trials.
Jade Carey and MyKayla Skinner qualified as individuals and could add to a big medal haul for the Americans.
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Surge in Twin Cities carjackings is putting drivers on edge. Biles and Carey earned the right to represent the United States in this event while Chiles, Skinner, McCallum and Lee finished 13th, 14th, 16th and 18th, respectively. Carey and Skinner, the two individual competitors for Team USA at the Olympics, fought hard to earn a spot in the vault final. But it was Carey who ultimately came out on top. She trailed Biles by a mere. Meanwhile, Skinner finished with the fourth-highest score on the vault, a mark of This was the only event where the two per rule had a positive impact for Team USA.
The Russian Olympic Committee dominated this event and placed four finishers in the top six. Only Iliankova and Melnikova advanced, allowing Biles — the 10th-place finisher in the event — to make the uneven bars final.
That will give her a chance to compete for a gold medal in each of the four individual events, the all-around competition and the team competition. The beam final only saw one player in the top 10, China's Yufei Lu, eliminated because of the two-per rule.
Team USA's next highest finisher, Skinner, finished well outside the qualifying range, in 27th place. As a result of these qualifying results, only three members of the U. Chiles and McCallum will be limited to the team event, while Skinner's bid for an Olympic medal has come to an end.
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