Unchecked: Simone Biles Doesn’t Owe the Olympics Everything
Day four of the Olympic Games has seen US superstar Simone Biles forced out of the women’s team gymnastics final.
The best gymnast in the world was hoping to win the first of a possible six gold medals but instead was forced to sit out following just one apparatus after a “medical issue” following the vault.
Biles later said that she was not mentally right for the event, in which Team USA took silver.
“I have to focus on my mental health and not jeopardize my health and well-being,” she said.
Elsewhere in a major blow to the hosts, tennis star Naomi Osaka has been knocked out of her home Olympics after losing in two straight sets to Czech Republic’s Marketa Vondrousova.
British hopes were resting on swimmer Duncan Scott going into the men’s 200m freestyle final alongside teammate Tom Dean, and the duo did not disappoint with Dean taking gold and Scott silver. Bianca Walkden claimed a bronze medal in the women’s +67kg taekwondo category, Andy Murray and Joe Salisbury progressed in the men’s tennis doubles while Team GB are through to the semi-finals in the rugby sevens.
Earlier Flora Duffy added the Olympic title to her collection of world titles to win Bermuda’s first ever Games gold medal, as Britain’s Georgia Taylor-Brown won silver despite suffering a punctured tyre in a rain-soaked women’s triathlon.
