After Simone Biles and “Pommel Horse Guy” Stephen Nedoroscik collected more hardware for Team USA in the first day of gymnastics apparatus finals, Suni Lee will look to add to the U.S. medal haul today in the uneven bars final.
Lee qualified for the final with the third-best score, a 14.866. Algeria’s Kaylia Nemour had the top score in qualification with a 15.600. Reigning world champion Qiyuan Qiu from China came in second at 15.066.
Also in today’s finals are the men’s rings and vault, which no Americans qualified for despite Team USA having taken home the bronze medal in the team competition. Speaking of Team USA’s medal count, you can check that out here, with the U.S. heading into Sunday’s competitions with a lead in overall medals and also running second in gold medals.
Start time: 9 a.m. ET/ 6 a.m. PT (Americans qualified for event)
Men’s rings 9 a.m. ET: No Americans qualified
Women’s uneven bars 9:40 a.m. ET: Suni Lee
Men’s vault 10:24 a.m. ET: No Americans qualified
Location: Bercy Arena | Paris, France
TV channel: NBC
Streaming: Fubo, Peacock
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Great Britain’s Becky Downie gets a fall as her hands slip off the bar, before resetting and getting back on to earn a 13.633. Downie, who is 32, is a decorated gymnast but has never won an Olympic medal; unfortunately, that will continue in Paris.
Nina Derwael of Belgium, who won the event in Tokyo 2020, puts up a strong score of 14.766 in the hopes of defending her medal. She moves into the lead, with five competitors remaining.
Next up is Italian Alice D’Amato, who led Italy to a team silver medal last week. D’Amato looks graceful on the bars, getting good height and nailing her dismount to earn a 14.733 to put her in a good spot.
16-year-old Zhang Yihan is up first for China. She falls during her routine taking her out of the running for a medal but she gets back up and finishes the event. Zhang finishes with a 12.800, setting a low bar for the rest of the field.
Suni Lee will be wearing a red leotard in the bars final today the same leo that her teammate Simone Biles wore yesterday, on her way to winning the gold medal in the vault final. Biles is in the audience at Bercy Arena to support Lee; she competes in two events tomorrow.
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The women’s uneven bars final is up, and American Suni Lee will vie for her third medal of the game. Lee is strong on bars, but does not have the highest start value; that would be Algeria’s Kaylia Nemour, who finished with a 15.533 in the event during the all-around final on Thursday.
Lee, who is competing last in the event, will need to have an excellent performance in order to reach the podium with her routine, but that is well within her grasp.
The rings final finishes with Great Britain’s Harry Hepworth, who earns a 14.800, and Armenia’s Vahagn Davtyan with 14.866.
China will finish one-two on rings with Liu Yang taking gold and Zou Jingyuan taking silver. Greece’s Eleftherios Petrounias holds on to take bronze.
Big cheers for French gymnast Samir Ait Said, who performs a strong routine and gets a stick in front of his home crowd. He gets a 15.000, and just misses out on moving into one of the three medal spots.
Turkey’s Adem Asil also missed out on the podium with a 14.966.
The first four of eight competitors have completed their routines. Chinese gymnastics Liu Yang and Zou Jingyuan sit in the top two sports with scores of 15.300 and 15.233, with Greece’s Eleftherios Petrounias in third with a score of 15.100.
Belgium’s Glen Cuyle fell on the landing and received a 13.833; he will not medal.
Day two of the gymnastics apparatus finals is underway, with Sunisa Lee competing for the United States on the uneven bars. There are three events on the slate today: men’s rings, women’s bars and men’s vault. Lee will be the only American competing today, as none of the U.S. men’s gymnasts qualified for these two finals.