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PARIS — (AP) — No medal for Simone Biles on the balance beam this time. The American gymnastics star slipped and fell off the apparatus at the end of her acrobatic series during the Paris Games' beam finals Monday, denying her an opportunity to add to the bronzes she won on the event at the 2016 and 2020 Games.

Simone Biles slips off the balance beam during event finals to miss the Olympic medal stand

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A rare fall cost Simone Biles her first medal of the 2024 Olympics.

Biles did not make it onto the podium in the beam event Monday, her second to last in Paris, after she was the fourth gymnast of the day to fall at Bercy Arena.



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Finishing with a score of 13.100, Biles lost her chance of tying Larisa Latynina’s all-time Olympic gold medal record by a female American gymnast in these games.

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Simone Biles has done it again: The superstar gymnast won gold Saturday in the Olympic vault finals. It’s her third gold medal in Paris, and she still has two more events. Biles was among the favorites again, but faced a tough challenge from Brazil's Rebeca Andrade, the defending Olympic champion in the event. Andrade took home silver. Team USA gymnast Jade Carey won bronze.

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Simone Biles fell off the beam to miss out on a medal for the first time at the Paris Olympics as Alice d'Amato took gold. The American, 27 - who won team, all-around and vault gold - lost her balance at the end of the series and placed fifth, in a final where half of the gymnasts fell off the 10cm-wide apparatus.

Biles falls and misses out on beam medal

Team USA women's gymnastics stars Simone Biles and Sunisa Lee came up empty in the balance beam final on Monday. After Simone Biles secured her third gold medal of the Paris Olympics on Saturday, she and Lee both notched identical scores of 13.1000, which wasn't enough to make the podium. Italy's Alice D'Amato secured gold with a 14.366, Yaqin Zhou of China scored 14.100 for silver, edging out Manila Esposito by just .1, who took bronze. Lee, who earned her sixth career Olympic medal on Sunday with bronze in the uneven bars final, went third in the rotation and scored a 13.100.

Simone Biles, Suni Lee miss out on medals in women's gymnastics balance beam final

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Simone Biles had already added three gold medals to her collection in Paris but a rare error saw her miss out on a fourth in the Balance Beam event as Team USA teammate Sunisa Lee also fell

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It was business as usual for the great Simone Biles on Saturday in Paris. In Olympic news, the fantastic USA gymnast earned another gold medal, this one for the vault. Biles wins vault gold with a score of 15.300, her second in Olympic competition. She previously won the event in Rio in 2016.

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With the Saturday victory in vault, Biles wins the seventh Olympic gold medal of her career, and 10th overall.

Simone Biles dominates vault, wins 3rd gold medal in Paris

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Monday's balance beam final saw Biles's first major mistake of these Olympic Games, a fall that cost her a podium spot. She has otherwise been transcendent in what may be her last Olympics ever.

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Simone Biles Captures 7th Olympic Gold Medal With Vault Win, Edges Out Brazil's Rebeca Andrade

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