Simone Biles Olympic Games Live Updates: Women’s Gymnastics Results

What time is the women’s gymnastics competition today at the Paris Olympics?

The women’s gymnastics qualifying competitions begin at 3:30 a.m. ET with the first subdivision.

How to Watch Gymnastics at the Paris Olympics

Peacock will stream the entire qualifying session live. NBC will broadcast Simone Biles and the U.S. women’s gymnastics team live in the second subdivision.

Rotation 1

• Safe: Georgia-Mae Fenton (13,833), Abigail Martin (13,766), Alice Kinsella (13,933, Ruby Evans (14,200). All four competing for Great Britain.
• Uneven beams: Caitlin Rooskrantz from South Africa (13,733), Lena Bickel from Switzerland (12,266), Anna Lashchevska from Ukraine (13,033), Valentina Georgieva from Bulgaria (11,500).
• Balance beam: Lilia Cosman (12,833), Amalia Ghigoarta (13,266), Ana Barbosu (13,533), Sabrina Maneca-Voinea (14,000). All four are competing for Romania.
• Floor exercise: Ahtziri Sandoval (11,833), Natalia Escalera (DNS), Alexa Moreno (12,800). All three competing for Mexico.

Rotation 2

• Safe: Ahtziri Sandoval (12.550, two jumps), Natalia Escalera (DNS), Alexa Moreno (13.949, two jumps). All three in action for Mexico.
• Uneven beams: Georgia-Mae Fenton (12.8333), Rebecca Downie (14.666), Alice Kinsella (11.900), Ruby Evans (11.200). All four competing for Great Britain.
• Balance beam: Caitlin Rooskrantz from South Africa (11,333), Lena Bickel from Switzerland (13,066), Anna Lashchevska from Ukraine (11,866), Valentina Georgieva from Bulgaria (10,633).
• Floor exercise: Lilia Cosman (12,466), Amalia Ghigoarta (13,333), Ana Barbosu (13,600), Sabrina Maneca-Voinea (13,800). All four are competing for Romania.

Rotation 3

• Safe: Lilia Cosman (13.500), Amalia Ghigoarta (13.000), Ana Barbosu (13.800, two jumps), Sabrina Maneca-Voinea follow. All four compete for Romania.
• Uneven beams: Mexico’s Ahtziri Sandoval (12,266), Natalia Escalera (12,800), Alexa Moreno (12,633) and Indonesia’s Rifda Irfanaluthfi (9,166).
• Balance beam: Georgia-Mae Fenton (13,500), Alice Kinsella (13,433), Ruby Evans (12,600), Rebecca Downie (13,400). All four competing for Great Britain.
• Floor exercise: Caitlin Rooskrantz from South Africa (10,866), Lena Bickel from Switzerland (12,433), Anna Lashchevska from Ukraine (12,566).

There are many celebrity fans in the Bercy Arena this morning, presumably to see Simone Biles. Oscar-winning actress Jessica Chastain is sitting with her family in a section on the north side of the arena, near the vault, a few rows above American snowboarder Shaun White and his girlfriend, Nina Dobrev. Businessman David Lauren, the son of eponymous clothing designer Ralph Lauren, is also sitting nearby.

Today’s team qualifying event is drawing so much attention because it’s Biles’ first time competing at the Paris Olympics, where she’s expected to add to her gold medal. She and the rest of Team USA will start on the balance beam shortly after 11:40 a.m. local time (or 5:40 a.m. ET).

Simone Biles is the most decorated gymnast of all time, with 37 medals at the world championships and the Olympics. To put that in perspective, that’s more than any other men’s team. Combined. China’s original five-man team had 37 medals, but they switched before qualifying and now have just 34. Oh, and the men also do two more events than the women. That means Biles has amassed her collection despite having fewer opportunities to do so.

How does qualifying for Olympic gymnastics work?

Every gymnast, whether they compete as a team or as an individual, must qualify. How many events they do depends on whether they want to reach the all-around final and whether their country is one of the 12 in the team competition, where they are needed most.

Four gymnasts compete in each event in qualifying, and teams can drop their lowest score. The top eight teams after qualifying advance to the team finals on Tuesday, where scoring starts over, and the U.S. women are the heavy favorites to win gold.

The top 24 in the individual all-around will advance to the final on Thursday, where Biles is expected to become the third woman, and first since 1968, to win a second Olympic title. The top eight gymnasts in each event will advance to the final, which will be held Aug. 3-5.

However, there is a limit of two gymnasts per country in the all-around and finals competitions, meaning at least one American will likely be sidelined.

Suni Lee and Jordan Chiles will join Simone Biles in the all-around. That means Jade Carey and Hezly Rivera, at 16 the only team members who aren’t returning Olympians, will each compete in two events: Carey on vault and floor exercise, where she’s the reigning Olympic champion, and Rivera on uneven bars and balance beam.

• Balance beam:Chiles, Rivera, Lee, Biles.
• Floor exercise: Lee, Chiles, Carey, Biles.
• Safe: Lee, Chiles, Carey, Biles.
• Uneven bars: Rivera, Chiles, Biles, Lee.

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Simone Biles is back, along with a number of familiar faces, as the team hopes to build on their team silver medal in Tokyo at the Paris Olympics.

The U.S. women will start on the balance beam and finish on the uneven bars. Biles will anchor all events except the uneven bars, where Lee leads. The bars is Lee’s signature event, and she won a bronze medal on it at the Tokyo Olympics, in addition to her all-around gold. Biles will finish second to last on the bars. Biles, Carey and Chiles plan to do two vaults each, meaning they will try to qualify for the vault finals.

A gymnastics routine is given two scores: one for difficulty, also known as the D score or starting value, and one for execution. Each gymnastics skill has a numerical value, and the D score is the sum of the skills in a routine. The execution score, or E score, represents how well the skills were executed. A gymnast starts with a 10.0, and deductions for errors and form errors are taken from there. Add the D and E scores together and that is your total for an apparatus. (The vault scores will always be higher because it is a single skill.)

Olympic Games Gymnastics Schedule

Here you will find the complete gymnastics schedule for the Olympic Games in Paris.

• Qualifying begins on Sunday, July 28 at 3:30 a.m. (ET).
• The women’s team final begins on Tuesday, July 30 at 12:15 p.m. (ET).
• The women’s all-around final will take place on Thursday, August 1 at 12:15 p.m. (ET).
• The women’s vault final is on Saturday, August 3 at 10:20 a.m. (ET).
• The women’s uneven bars final is on Sunday, August 4 at 9:40 a.m. (Eastern Time).
• The women’s balance beam finals (6:36 a.m. ET) and floor finals (8:20 a.m.) are on Monday, August 5.

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