One of Biles' eponymous skills is a double-twisting double backflip beam dismount, but she is expected to end today's routine with a simpler skill that doesn't require any twists, like a double pike.

Despite just recently switching to the piked dismount, the 24-year-old executed it perfectly off the beam and had only a hop backward on her landing. Her score of 14.000 placed her in third, earning ...

In her breakout 2020 Olympics, she finished fifth in the balance beam, ending up with an identical score to fourth-place Ellie Black of Canada and just 0.134 points behind bronze medalist Simone ...