You've got 300 whatever million, so the weight on her shoulders is massive. "So to have the weight of, what is it, total six million people combined in the island of Ireland.
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"I live in the United States and anything that came on the TV with NBC or commercials about the Olympics, it was Simone Biles, it was Simone Biles' Olympics, right?" the former world number one said. Speaking after an opening 69 in the men's competition at Kasumigaseki Country Club, McIlroy said he understood "100 per cent" how Biles felt. Osaka, who lit the Olympic flame in the opening ceremony in Tokyo, lost in the third round of the women's singles following an eight-week break after pulling out of the French Open on mental health grounds. Rory McIlroy has praised American gymnast Simone Biles for joining tennis star Naomi Osaka in breaking the "taboo" on mental health in sport.įour-time Rio gold medallist Biles withdrew from her scheduled defence of the women's all-around final on Friday, citing a desire to protect her mental health. Finally, she has had the preparation and the platform to demonstrate the breadth of her talent in a major final. She qualified for the Olympics only last month. She most recently did so in 2019 before the World Championships. Yet in her six-year senior career, she has torn her anterior cruciate ligament on three separate occasions, her potential constantly stunted. Andrade, 22, has long been one of the most talented gymnasts in the world. This will be remembered as Lee’s night, but in truth it was a win for all. Lee performed to the very best of her ability, nervelessly nailing her landings and finishing with a score of 13.700, almost three tenths higher than in qualifying. Andrade, who only had to match her qualifying score to win, twice stepped out of bounds. Melnikova gave away vital tenths on a spin. Urazova’s routine was not difficult enough. It all came down to the floor exercise, where the small details finally separated them. On her best piece, 16-year-old Urazova scored a huge 14.200 and the others followed in turn, smoothing over their few tentative moments as they determinedly remained on the beam. The balance beam so often exposes nerves and separates the champions, yet one by one, they all refused to fall. Melnikova and Urazova, meanwhile, posted the third- and fourth-highest bars scores of the final.
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Andrade pulled off her full difficulty bar routine, which Lee followed by nailing the most difficult uneven bar routine in the world, with its labyrinth of complex connections. That tit-for-tat was how the final continued. The Russians Melnikova and Vladislava Urazova remained tight to their rivals with two solid double twisting Yurchenko vaults of their own. Andrade, one of the best vaulters in the world, responded by nailing a tremendous, difficult Cheng vault for 15.300 points. On her relatively weaker apparatus, Lee opened the final by sticking her double twisting Yurchenko vault for a score of 14.600.
The four leading gymnasts bounded into the arena determined to immediately register their impact. Her perseverance and drive has allowed Lee to keep moving forward.īoth were in abundance throughout the spectacular final.
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She spent much of the pre-Olympics stretch performing with a concerning ankle injury. She has lost an aunt and uncle to Covid-19. Her route to Tokyo has been paved with tragedies and struggles her father fell off a ladder just before the US national championships in 2019 and was paralysed from the chest down.
The 18-year-old is the first Hmong American ever to be selected as an Olympian. Lee has trodden a unique path to her distinction as Olympic all-around champion. Jessica Gadirova, meanwhile, became the first British woman to record a top-10 finish by taking 10th place as Jennifer, her twin sister, finished in 13th. With her score of 57.433, she edged out Brazil’s Rebeca Andrade, who scored 57.298 for silver, and Angelina Melnikova of the Russian Olympic Committee, whose 57.199 yielded a strong bronze – three enormous scores. When the cards fell, Sunisa Lee of the United States nailed the floor routine of her life to mark herself as Olympic all-around champion. The four highest qualifiers behind Biles took the top four places on the night a remarkable 16 pressure routines between them without a fall. Instead, each of the clearest medal contenders did every last thing they could to take the gold medal for themselves. In such a mentally taxing sport, nerves and errors would be entirely understandable.
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