The crowd was eerily quiet and, at times, shushed those who were cheering, including athletes who were supporting their teammates on the sidelines.
Sunisa Lee falls from the balance beam and Simone Biles pauses for a moment on the floor after falling from the beam during the women's individual finals on August 5, 2024 at the Paris Olympic Games.The event saw half of the finalists, four out of eight, fall from the beam: Team USA’s Biles and Sunisa Lee, Brazil’s Julia Soares and Romania’s Sabrina Maneca-Voinea. In the end, Italy’s Alice D’Amato claimed gold, China’s Zhou Yaqin earned silver and Italy’s Manila Esposito clinched bronze.
After finishing her beam routine, Biles looked bewildered and could be heard asking her teammate Lee, “Why are they shushing?”Simone Biles, of the United States, falls during the women’s artistic gymnastics individual balance beam finals at Bercy Arena at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Monday, Aug. 5, 2024, in Paris, France.“You could feel the tension in the room.
“There was a lot of silence in the gym and it was a little bit more stressful because of this,” she said, “but it was nice because when we finished the exercise, it was even louder than usual.”
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