USA won gold in the women's gymnastics team final at the 2024 Paris Olympics on Tuesday (July 30).
Simone Biles, 27, the most decorated American gymnast in history, clinched the Americans' victory as the final participant in the floor routine with a competition-best 14.666 score, propelling Team USA to a total score of 171.296, followed by Italy (-5.802) and Brazil (-6.799). Biles, who led the individual all-around during qualifying on Sunday (July 28), won her eighth Olympic medal, passing Shannon Miller for the most by an American gymnast in history, and extended her American record for most gold medals won to five.
Biles and teammate Jordan Chiles participated in all four events while Suni Lee excelled on bars, beam and floor and Jade Carey had a strong performance on vault. The team victory marks the beginning of Biles' Olympic redemption tour in Paris after she withdrew from most of the competition at the pandemic-delayed 2020 Tokyo Games due to "the twisties," a temporary loss of air awareness suffered by gymnasts while performing twisting elements.
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