This is what flawless looks like on the floor exercise.
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Difficulty in women's floor exercise has increased since 1988, though.
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The floor exercise in gymnastics is all about the tumbling, right?
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Then, after performing her floor exercise, she beat her own record.
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Aly is also expected to compete in the floor exercise on Tuesday.
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Combined, it was the best team floor exercise score of the night.
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Kocian will likely not be competing in floor-exercise, vault and balance beam.
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The injury came minutes after Germany's Andreas Toba hurt his knee during floor exercise.
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Biles could also win the beam on Monday and the floor exercise on Tuesday.
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She has a chance to win a fourth gold, on floor exercise, on Tuesday.
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Because they were the top qualifiers, the Americans got to end on floor exercise.
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She also is the reigning world champion in floor exercise and the balance beam.
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She will compete in both the balance beam final and the floor exercise final.
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During the floor exercise, I don't know, I didn't have the strength any more.
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Video of this U.C.L.A. gymnast's hip-hop-inspired floor exercise is hurtling around social media.
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She has the chance to score a fifth medal in the floor exercise on Tuesday.
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The New Jersey native has an especially lively floor exercise that always ignites the crowd.
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She followed this performance up with individual golds for the balance beam and floor exercise.
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She also won the beam in 1964 and the uneven bars and floor exercise in 1968.
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She was also first in three apparatus — the floor exercise, the balance beam and the vault.
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She also finished first in three of the four events: floor exercise, vault and balance beam.
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Then, shortly after, she broke her own record with a 25th medal for her floor exercise.
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She still has two events left, including the beam and, arguably her best event, the floor exercise.
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Carl typically worked on vault and bars, though he made appearances to spot tumbling on floor exercise.
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Saturday's performance, which was widely shared on social media, was her first floor exercise of the season.
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She took home gold for the vault, individual all-round, team all-round, and the floor exercise.
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He seemed intent on changing it from the second he saluted the judges before his floor exercise.
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Biles already has two moves named for her, one in the floor exercise and one on a vault.
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Sophina DeJesus of the U.C.L.A. gymnastics team may have upset the floor exercise paradigm over the weekend, however.
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Team U.S.A. is heavily favored to medal in all events, including vault, uneven bars, beam and floor exercise.
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Over two nights of competition, Biles earned top scores in the vault, balance beam, and floor exercise events.
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Snapshot: Simone Biles, above, won the gold in the balance beam and the floor exercise in Stuttgart, Germany.
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Mikulak delivered on a crucial day, finishing first in floor exercise and vault and was second in pommel horse.
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He won his third consecutive floor exercise title on Saturday after claiming the all-round bronze medal on Thursday.
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Mai Murakami added a second gold for Japan by winning the women's floor exercise with a score of 14.20123.
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In 103, she earned two world championship medals — a team gold and an individual bronze in the floor exercise.
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She finished last season as the No. 1 ranked collegiate gymnast in the all-around, beam and floor exercise.
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The already two-time gold medalist will compete for three more in women's balance beam, vault, and floor exercise.
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It was Cerio's first pass as the Tigers' floor exercise anchor and it would end up being her last.
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Biles scored the gold for the team all-around, individual all-around, vault individual and floor exercise individual routine.
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People reports that Mossett performed an entire floor exercise routine set to Beyoncé music during a competition last month.
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Raisman was the second-to-last gymnast to perform on the floor exercise, with Biles waiting for her turn.
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The medal competition today includes gymnastics, with the men's parallel bars and horizontal bar, and the women's floor exercise.
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On floor exercise, her second tumbling pass includes a double layout with a half-twist and a blind landing.
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On Tuesday, Simone Biles and Aly Raisman will compete in the floor exercise final at the Rio Olympic Games.
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She won the all-around final by a whopping 2.1 points and the floor exercise by a full point.
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Max Whitlock ended the long wait for a champion by claiming victory in the floor exercise and pommel horse finals.
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Arthur Nory Mariano became an overnight star after he won bronze during the men's gymnastics floor exercise finals on Sunday.
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Biles landed a difficult triple-double in her floor exercise routine — the first female gymnast to do so in competition.
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In the final rotation, Japan took on Russia head-to-head in the floor exercise, holding a slim 0.208 lead.
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Minutes later, after Biles had clinched the gold with her own showstopping floor exercise, the two women hugged and cried.
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Her skill in the floor exercise makes her uncatchable, letting her build big leads over everyone else in the field.
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Though Biles's best event is the floor exercise, she's also at the top of the world on the balance beam.
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She later stepped out of bounds during her first tumbling pass on floor exercise, a byproduct of her explosive power.
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There is no event that showcases Biles's strength and transcendent quality as a gymnast as much as the floor exercise.
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At the competition against Utah this weekend that took place in Pauley Pavilion, DeJesus tied for fourth on the floor exercise.
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Kocian played down the rivalry with Locklear, saying she is trying to keep her focus on the beam and floor exercise.
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Another night, Spitz brought Comaneci a knockoff of the outfit she had worn during her floor exercise at the Montreal Games.
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In her red, white and blue leotard covered with bling, Biles walked onto the floor for her floor exercise on Sunday.
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Biles already has two moves named for her, one in the floor exercise and one on a vault, according to CNN.
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Officially, what Ohashi did with her perfect-10 floor exercise at a college gymnastics meet in January was a solo routine.
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It took me a while to learn how to properly do each floor exercise, so I greatly appreciated the trainer feedback.
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Biles still has another shot at earning her fourth gold of the Rio Games during the women's floor exercise final on Tuesday.
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Toba may have suffered an injury to his anterior cruciate ligament following a fall from a tumbling run on the floor exercise.
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" Johnson – the 2008 Olympic balance beam gold medalist, and all-around, floor exercise and team silver medalist – says gymnastics is "constantly evolving.
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Raisman, second to Biles in the all-around and floor exercise at Rio, has kept in regular touch with her team mates.
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Unfortunately, when muscle tears away from the bone, Kegels (a frequently recommended pelvic floor exercise for post-delivery recovery) do not help.
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In the final rotation, Japan took on Russia head-to-head in the floor exercise, holding a slim lead of 2100 points.
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Golds in the balance beam and floor exercise Sunday gave Biles 25 career world championship medals, the most among men and women.
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And on Tuesday, Biles added a gold in the floor exercise, bringing her total to four golds and five medals in all.
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My body type was not one that allowed me to be a powerhouse; vault and tumbling on floor exercise were never my strengths.
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An inspiring example is the recent hip-hop-infused gymnastics routine by Sophina DeJesus, a U.C.L.A. gymnast who broke the floor exercise paradigm.
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Biles will also compete for her first vault world title on Friday, a floor exercise medal and a balance beam medal on Saturday.
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At the Olympics, the spectacular American gymnast Simone Biles scooped up her fourth gold medal, soaring past the competition in the floor exercise.
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Biles jokingly asked Landi if she needed an 18 in the floor exercise — a score not currently possible in gymnastics — to catch Murakami.
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Biles, a double world champion on the beam, will be back on Tuesday when she will be favourite to win the floor exercise.
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The following events will all see medals awarded today: Gymnastics wraps up with the men's parallel and horizontal bars and the women's floor exercise.
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During her floor exercise routine, Biles stepped out of bounds twice (a penalty), but still won the floor competition by more than a point.
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She dispelled those doubts on Sunday, turning in rock solid performances in all four gymnastics apparatuses: floor exercise, balance beam, uneven bars and vault.
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He won NCAA championships in floor exercise and vault, and became the first African-American to be named to the US Olympic gymnastics team.
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Biles had a huge lead, which she secured on the floor exercise with elegance, strength and the stunning ability to land like a dart.
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Look for both women to deliver commanding routines: Biles usually aces every flip and leap; Raisman is particularly strong on vault and floor exercise.
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Hernandez — nicknamed both Baby Shakira and the Human Emoji — became a trending topic on Twitter after prime-time viewers saw her charismatic floor exercise.
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Men's all-around champion Artur Dalaloyan added gold on floor exercise, as his score of 14.900 allowed him to slip past Japan's Kenzo Shirai.
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Brestyan, who led the U.S. national team at the 2010 and 2015 World Championships, is recognized as a floor exercise specialist for the Americans.
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He will get a chance to battle it out for a medal on the floor exercise after making the eight-man cut for the final.
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And she didn't disappoint – Biles picked up gold in the team all-around, individual all-around, vault and floor exercise and bronze on the beam.
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Last year, at the 2018 World Championships in Doha, Biles brought home six medals -- including four golds in team, all-around, vault and floor exercise.
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There's a reason that Mariano broke down into tears after he won the bronze during the floor exercise finals on Sunday – it was totally unexpected.
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Biles will have a chance at more gold later this week when she competes in the event finals in the balance beam and floor exercise.
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Best Viral Sports Moment: Katelyn Ohashi scores a perfect 10 in floor exercise routine The UCLA gymnast's viral performance was her last on the collegiate level.
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It was not until they performed on their final apparatus, the floor exercise, that all four Japanese gymnasts scored over 15 points on the same discipline.
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The Swedish women's soccer team upset Brazil to advance to the final, and Simone Biles won the floor exercise to earn her fourth gymnastics gold medal.
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Hernandez does not have the most difficult or powerful tumbling, Haney said, but her dance ability makes her a crowd pleaser on beam and floor exercise.
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Biles competed in all four events during the three-up, three-count final and put up the highest score on vault, uneven bars and floor exercise.
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"I went after Simone so I was Marta's last gymnast ever and I knew I had to do good for her," Raisman said about Tuesday's floor exercise.
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Biles — who was battling a kidney stone during the competition — helped the team dominate by coming in first in the vault, uneven bars and floor exercise programs.
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Read more: The 50 most dominant athletes aliveAt Sunday's US Gymnastics Championships in Kansas City, Missouri, Biles landed a historic triple-double during her floor exercise routine.
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Biles should finish her floor exercise this weekend with a double-twisting, double back flip, which many gymnasts cannot even muster at the start of a routine.
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That year, at 16, she earned her first four medals at the world championships in Antwerp, Belgium, including golds in the all-around and the floor exercise.
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She was the only gymnast left competing when she stepped out for her floor exercise, and a hush fell over the arena as she settled into position.
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Katelyn Ohashi, a gymnast from U.C.L.A who could not capitalize financially after her perfect floor exercise routine went viral in January was there to support the bill.
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The "open box of parts floor exercise" will ask teams to replicate certain parts without being given the design specifications, while meeting the Air Force's exacting standards.
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American gymnasts have traditionally excelled in the power events, Vault and Floor Exercise, and their difficulty level on those apparatus has been their advantage for the past decade.
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While allowing that it was not her best, Biles took to Twitter between the beam and floor exercise to chastise those who criticized her for not winning gold.
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Earlier in the day, Biles became the first woman to attempt a triple-double -- two flips and three twists in the air -- in competition during the floor exercise.
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The gymnast ended her big day with her floor exercise, on which she earned 15.133 points — putting her a full point ahead of fellow American gymnast Sunisa Lee.
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After scoring a 15.966 on her floor-exercise routine on Tuesday, the all-star gymnast has become the first American to win four gymnastics golds at a single Olympics.
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After scoring a 15.966 on her floor exercise routine on Tuesday, the all-star gymnast has become the first American to win four gymnastics golds at a single Olympics.
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She became the first woman to land a triple twisting double somersault on floor exercise and the first to land a double twisting double somersault off the balance beam.
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NBC anchor Lester Holt even gushed about Mariano's beautiful smile during the primetime airing of the floor exercise and fans around the world were clearly charmed by the Brazilian.
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She and her American teammates are all but assured spots in the team final, the all-around final and event finals: vault, uneven bars, balance beam and floor exercise.
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Hernandez won fans at the trials with her upbeat floor exercise, but make no mistake, she is on the team for the scores she can post on the beam.
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On Thursday, she'll be competing in the Women's All-Around Final, before spending the weekend competing in all four individual event finals -- vault, uneven bars, balance beam and floor exercise.
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And on Sunday, with gold medals on the balance beam and in the floor exercise, Biles became the most decorated gymnast ever, with 93 world-title medals to her name. .
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However, the Olympics aren't over for the gymnasts – Simone has three more competitions coming up, including the vault on Sunday, the beam on Monday and the floor exercise on Tuesday.
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American gymnast Simone Biles is far more famous, yet when she performs the hardest floor exercise routine in the world, she lands eight flips and 4.5 twists in 90 seconds.
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Biles scored highest for her team in vault, balance beam and floor exercise – ending the night (and securing Team USA a gold medal!) with a score of 22016 on floor.
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Japan's Kenzo Shirai won his third world title in the floor exercise (15.633) and his second medal of the championships after taking the bronze in the all-around on Thursday.
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The 19-year-old team, all around, vault and floor exercise champion became the first woman in 32 years, and fifth overall, to win four golds at a single Games.
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Biles and Aly Raisman were an unstoppable duo, giving the USA a 73-2 punch in gold and silver in both the women's floor exercise and women's individual all-around.
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The Americans got off to a slow start on their first apparatus, floor exercise, when two of their three gymnasts, Alexander Naddour, below, and Sam Mikulak, tumbled out of bounds.
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On the off chance you have lingering doubts, consider that Biles on Sunday qualified in first place for the all-around and first on vault, balance beam and floor exercise.
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Biles pushed her all-time gold medal haul at world championships to a record 14 when she claimed top honors in the floor exercise for her fourth gold in Doha.
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TYLER KEPNER When Simone Biles performed her triple-double (two flips with three twists) on the floor exercise at the United States Gymnastics Championships in August, everyone was in awe.
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Having won gold medals in the team competition, the individual all-around, as well as for vault and floor exercise, she is, in fact, the best female gymnast in the world.
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Today, Day 11 of the Games, Biles will shoot for another gold in the individual floor exercise, while Usain Bolt will be back on the track in the 200-meter heats.
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Biles smiled nearly the whole way through her floor exercise on both days of nationals, as if she were dancing barefoot on the lawn of her backyard, with no one watching.
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Biles secured gold by more than half of a point in both vault and balance beam before earning a full point more than the next-highest scorer in the floor exercise.
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In addition to her team gold medals, Ms. Raisman won the 2012 gold medal in floor exercise, as well as two individual silver medals and one bronze in her Olympics career.
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At a meet in 2013, Biles wobbled wildly on the beam, crashed to her knees during the floor exercise, and flew off the bars before Boorman pulled her from the competition.
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Only Biles, the three-time all around world champion who is appearing at her first Olympics, and Raisman, a gold medal winner in the floor exercise at the London Games, scored higher.
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Biles explained to People that between all of the gymnastics training, having a floor exercise tumbling pass named for her, and basically being a badass, she hasn't had much time to date.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 11 (Reuters) - The tears flowed freely down Simone Biles' face as she was crowned Olympic all around champion with a dazzling performance on the floor exercise on Thursday.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 16 (Reuters) - Simone Biles showed off her sassy moves and explosive tumbles on the floor exercise to win a record-equalling fourth gold at the Olympics on Tuesday.
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She shared the gold medal in the floor exercise with Larisa Petrik of the Soviet Union, who moved up from second place when Soviet judges revised their scores at the last minute.
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The glaring errors on every apparatus barring the floor exercise by the reigning Japanese world champions meant their total of 269.294 was surpassed by China (270.461), the United States (270.405) and Russia (269.612).
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There was an audible gasp in the arena when Downie's tumbling run on the floor exercise ended with her clutching her neck after she suffered what she called "a crunch in my neck".
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Rio 2016 RIO DE JANEIRO — For anyone who doubted her after a subpar performance on the balance beam, Simone Biles sent an emphatic message on Tuesday: She is unbeatable in the floor exercise.
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China, top in qualifying, were in danger of missing out on the medals when stumbles and falls on the vault, rings and floor exercise left them trailing fifth with two rotations to go.
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For her Saturday performance, Biles, 21, took gold on the floor exercise and bronze on the balance beam making her the first woman in 30 years to win a medal in every single event.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Max Whitlock ended Britain's 120-year wait for an Olympic gymnastics gold medal by upstaging two-time world champion Kenzo Shirai to win the men's floor exercise title on Sunday.
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Snapshot: Simone Biles, above in Stuttgart, Germany, won the gold in the balance beam and the floor exercise to become the most decorated gymnast in world championship history, with a total of 25 medals.
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Fans of the show may not remember that Buffy was a cheerleader, but her fight sequences read like "tumbling passes," where gymnasts competing on floor exercise execute acrobatic feats like handsprings and full twists.
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Biles has two more events Sunday -- the floor exercise and the balance beam -- and will likely pass Vitaly Scherbo, a Belarussian who competed in the 1990s, as the most decorated gymnast in world championship history.
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Biles, whose score was only good enough for bronze behind team mate Laurie Hernandez, will get a chance to win a record-equalling fourth gold on Tuesday when she competes in the floor exercise final.
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Simone Biles on Sunday became the most decorated gymnast in world championship history, winning gold medals in the balance beam and the floor exercise to increase her career medal total in the championships to 25.
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Gymnastics: Biles won gold medals in the balance beam and floor exercise to increase her career championship medal count to 25 — breaking Vitaly Scherbo's record of 24, which had stood for more than 2 decades.
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In fact they looked in danger of missing out on the medals completely after stumbles and falls on the vault, rings and floor exercise left them trailing in fifth place with two rotations to go.
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Needing 12.301 in floor exercise to reclaim her title in the final rotation, Biles scored 14.400 points to finish with an overall score of 58.999 — beating China's Tang Xijing by a huge margin of 2.100.
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Her star-making moment came as leader of the Americans at Rio 2016, with the United States winning gold in the team event and Biles winning individual gold in vault, floor exercise, and all-around.
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In a new interview with ESPNW, the 22-year-old graduate recalls dislocating both of her knees and tearing ligaments in both during her first floor exercise pass at the NCAA Regional Semifinal in Baton Rouge.
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Less than two hours after he ended Britain's 120-year wait for an Olympic gymnastics gold medal by winning the floor exercise, Whitlock was again on top in his specialist event with a score of 15.966.
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Biles has coined two gymnastic moves bear her name: the Biles, a series of marquee tumbling passes on the floor exercise, and a brand-new vault that she debuted at the 2018 World Championship qualifying event.
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The 26-year-old, winner of the floor exercise and pommel horse titles at Rio de Janeiro 2016 and now preparing for his third Games, plans to be around for the Paris 2024 Olympics as well.
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"Making history again, I couldn't be happier," said Whitlock, who won Olympic gold medals in floor exercise and pommel horse at the 2016 Rio Games and also the world pommel horse title at Glasgow in 2015.
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According to USA Today, Douglas, now 20, received the high score on every exercise except the floor exercise, and hopes that her outstanding performance removes any doubts about her ability to compete in Rio this summer.
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What saved Douglas, though, was that Ashton Locklear, the gymnast with whom she was competing for the team's final spot because both are uneven-bars specialists, does not compete in the floor exercise or the vault.
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China, top in qualifying, were in danger of missing out on the medals completely when stumbles and falls on the vault, rings and floor exercise left them trailing in fifth place with two rotations to go.
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She competed at five world championships between 22016 and 219, winning a silver medal in the all-around competition — which features all four events in which female athletes compete (bar, beam, floor exercise, and vault) — in 22019.
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At the national championships in 2015, Hernandez won all-around gold and also medals on all four events, including gold on uneven bars, as well as silver on floor exercise, and bronzes on vault and balance beam.
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Initially, Mariano didn't even qualify to move forward to the finals in the floor exercise but after other athletes were forced to drop out because of the "two-athletes-per-country" rule, he was allowed to advance.
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Battling a kidney stone that she insisted was manageable, Biles fell twice — sitting down her vault in the first rotation and coming off the beam on her third — and stepped out of bounds on the floor exercise.
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They can please your grandmother, but they also thrill seasoned performers, like the U.C.L.A Bruins gymnast Sophina DeJesus, who made a splash by sprinkling in viral-dance moves during a floor-exercise routine at a February meet.
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Whitlock bagged another silver in the floor exercise before he whipped the crowd into a frenzy with his dynamic display on the pommel horse — a performance which edged out team mate Louis Smith by 0.1 of a point.
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The US gymnastics star was taking part in the world championships Saturday in Stuttgart, Germany, where during her floor exercise routine she landed a triple-double and then on the balance beam she nailed a double-double dismount.
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After the Rio Olympics, where she won a second team gold as well as silver medals in the all-around and floor exercise, Raisman told 60 Minutes she finally decided to speak to FBI investigators about Dr. Nassar.
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At the national championships in 2015, Hernandez won all-around gold and also medals on all four events, including gold on uneven bars, as well as silver on floor exercise, and bronzes on vault and balance beam. 4.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - It was little wonder that when Japanese hero Kohei Uchimura had finished his final tumble on the floor exercise and stepped down from the raised Olympic competition platform, he simply doubled over and panted.
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The arrest comes the same month that Simone Biles, 22, made history at the U.S. Gymnastics Championships when she became the first woman to complete a complicated maneuver known as a triple-double during the floor exercise competition.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - U.S. team coordinator Marta Karolyi could not have ended her gymnastics coaching career on a better note as two of her students, Simone Biles and Aly Raisman, claimed gold and silver in Tuesday's floor exercise.
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After Biles finished her power-packed floor exercise, the scoreboard showed that the United States had amassed 184.897 points, an eight-point gap over silver medal-winning team Russia, and the largest margin in the history of the event.
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Preformed on the floor exercise, this skill requires a high level of "air awareness," as Biles flips and twist through the air she has to know exactly where the ground is because she won't see it until she lands.
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Somehow this 54-year-old woman was talked into donning that outfit and performing some of the balletic moves from her historic floor exercise, which she did alongside a split-screen image of her teenage self from back then.
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Shirai had been the favorite to become the first Japanese gymnast to win the floor exercise since Sawao Kato in 1968, but his gold medal hopes looked shaky when he almost sat down following a triple twisting front somersault.
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Verniaiev was a bit shaky as he went out of bounds on the floor exercise and even took a big hop on his high bar routine to finish second in his group behind Cuba's 2015 silver medalist Manrique Larduet.
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Four years later, in Mexico City, Caslavska turned in a performance for the ages, winning gold medals in the vault, the all-around, floor exercise and uneven bars and silver medals in the balance beam and the team competition.
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Mikulak, a two-time Olympian, finished with the top scores on floor exercise, high bar and parallel bars to become the first American to win five national titles since Blaine Wilson ripped off five straight crowns from 1996-2000.
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When Japan's Kato, Shirai and Uchimura scored a combined 47.199 on their final apparatus — the floor exercise — China's Deng, Lin and Zhang knew they would have to score more than 47.94 points on the horizontal bar to overhaul them.
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Biles was undeniably the breakout star of Rio as she lived up to all the pre-Olympic hype by winning a record-equalling four golds - in team, all around, vault and floor exercise - for a female gymnast at a single Olympics.
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The Canadian will be hard pressed to keep from surrendering her all-around title to the U.S. on Monday and then will need to be at her best to retain her gold on the balance beam and floor exercise from 2015.
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But once Japan finished on the floor exercise with three dazzling performances, it was clear that the top prize was out of reach for Russia and the silver medal was also in the balance as China were hot on their heels.
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Despite suffering kidney stone problems that briefly sent her to a Doha hospital emergency room before the championships, Biles won gold in the team final, all-around, vault and floor exercise, a silver on uneven bars and bronze on balance beam.
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The United Kingdom's Max Whitlock took home the gold with 15.966 (his second gold medal of the day as he took home the top award for the floor exercise just a few hours prior) and Whitlock's teammate Louis Smith grabbed the silver.
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The 22-year-old successfully landed her triple-twisting double backflip on floor exercise and her double-twisting double backflip balance beam dismount in the qualification round on Saturday, ensuring those skills would be named after her in the Code of Points.
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On Sunday, after the 19-year-old American gymnast picked up her third gold medal in the women's vault final and Mariano took home the bronze for Brazil in the men's floor exercise, the two athletes got together to show off their new neckwear.
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Gabby Douglas, the 2012 Olympic all-around gold medalist; Aly Raisman, who earned the gold that year in the floor exercise; and Simone Biles, who will make her Olympic debut on the heels of three consecutive world all-around championships, reminisce about their time there.
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Raisman, the second member of this year's team to make it to her second Olympic Games (along with Douglas), was one of the first to shed tears (without any runny black mascara!) after finishing her final floor exercise routine and cinching her spot on the team.
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On Wednesday, one day after Simone Biles scooped the gold for floor exercise final and Aly Raisman earned the silver, the two U.S. gymnasts celebrated their strong finish to the Rio Games in the best possible way: by eating McDonald's french fries and chocolate ice cream.
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"It's actually been pretty crazy, I've only been home maybe one month in the past eight or nine," said Raisman, who won her first Olympic team gold as a member of the United States' 'Fierce Five' at London where she also took the floor exercise title.
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Nichols, who hopes to make the 863-woman team going to Rio following the olympic trials (concluding Sunday night) was also the only U.S. gymnast who competed in all four events in the World Championships team final, earning a bronze medal for her a floor exercise.
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More than a week later, the two Olympians rejoiced in their medal wins on Sunday, with Mariano sharing shots of the pair holding up their big wins (a gold for Biles for vault and a bronze for Mariano for floor exercise) and smiling for the camera.
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While rivals China, Russia and Britain fell and stumbled their way through qualifying, the only blips for the Americans was when Douglas stepped out of bounds during the floor exercise and Raisman flapped her arms about to save herself falling off the beam following a big wobble.
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Despite glaring errors on every apparatus barring the floor exercise, Japan's collective score of 269.294 was enough to see them top the first sub division in qualifying ahead of jubilant hosts Brazil — who were fielding a full team in the men's Olympic competition for the first time.
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And here are two of the top picks of the Times critic-at-large Wesley Morris, who wrote "The Best Performances of 2019": Katelyn Ohashi and her girls Officially, what Ohashi did with her perfect-10 floor exercise at a college gymnastics meet in January was a solo routine.
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With the device in place, either vibrating or providing visual feedback in response to vaginal squeezes, users get a better sense of the mechanics of this invisible exercise, much more vividly than the old "pretend you're trying to stop the flow of pee" explanation of pelvic floor exercise could ever provide.
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Their other routines were marred by a few crucial mistakes: Deng fell on his hand and stumbled during the floor exercise, You over-rotated on his dismount from the rings and ran off his mat to finish while Lin landed on his knee and stumbled forward in the vault event.
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"While the Soviet gymnasts were already in Mexico City, adjusting to the altitude and the climate, I was hanging from trees, practicing my floor exercise in the meadow in front of the cottage and building calluses on my hands by shoveling coal," she told The Los Angeles Times in 1990.
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Biles capped a remarkable 2018 world gymnastics championships by claiming gold on floor exercise and bronze on balance beam during event finals on Saturday, giving her six medals for the meet and 20 over all in world championships, tied with Svetlana Khorkina of Russia for the most by a female gymnast.
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She opens with a double layout with a full twist, a display of sheer power — like an avalanche screaming down the side of a mountain: The basic strategy for the floor exercise is that you start off with your strongest tumbling pass, because that's when your legs are freshest; then, as your legs tire, you ease up on the difficulty.
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Some sex toys are now being marketed as devices that can help women do kegels, an exercise that strengthens the pelvic floor, or the group of muscles in your Combining a sex toy with a kegel-training device makes it seem like the pelvic floor exercise can help you have more or better orgasms, but there isn't any concrete scientific evidence that suggests this is true, Prause said.
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