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This is so sad for Tobe Naoto
 
If they had simply decided to share the gold with the thirteen who made 2.24m, he would have won a home Olympic gold.

And the roommate of Brandon Starc's Roommate is through! We've got ourselves a serious final!

Neither, it's just the best that's available.

When you get a notification on your phone about a new medal for Brazil...  But the medal was won yesterday
 

Belinda Bencic sounded *so* happy in her interview with NBC. Like, happier than I've heard a lot of GS winners.

Well, now I can write a little bit more.

I'm fully aware that Rebeca didn't have good landings. This is not the vault final I envisioned, to be honest. Beautiful form in the air, but the landings were not great. Still, a fair result, especially considering that Skinner's vaults are lower in height and not as great in execution -- except for the landings, which of course were better. But for those who don't understand, the landings on Rebeca's vaults were deducted around 0.1 to 0.3 each, so no big deal in the end. This is how the Code of Points works.

Skinner did so well to keep her mental fortitude. She went from a retired gymnast after qualifications to an Olympic silver medalist. I'm not a fan of her political ideas, but as a gymnast her life story is very touching and she deserves this medal.

Yeo Seo-jeong went through all the trouble to create a new vault, with the highest difficulty in the final and the biggest single score. I was following the tweets about  the training sessions before this final, and Yeo crashed all her attempts, so the fact that she hit in the final and got a medal is amazing. Another fairy tale story here came true.

Moreno had the best vaults in her career and missing a medal by such a small margin must be heartbreaking. I hope she sticks around for 2024, and I hope Olsen also keeps training because she has enough potential to be a medalist if she improves her execution. Her vaults were not the cleanest, but the difficulty was high.

Carey had a terrible day. I'm glad she's okay, but it was hard to watch. Good news is that she will perform on floor finals and she's the favorite for the gold medal thanks to her level of difficulty alone, which is the highest among all competitors -- provided Biles decides not to compete there.

Overall, a very interesting final with LOTS of hard vaults. This was probably the final with the highest combined level of difficulty across all competitors in Olympic history. Either this or Beijing, but I still think this takes the cake for the sheer number of Cheng vaults alone.

Crazy achievement for Andrade. I can't even begin to imagine what this means to Brazilian WAG.
 
Also huge congrats to Skinner for winning silver after being left off the team and initially missing out on the finals and to Yeo for throwing down the best single vault of the night.

Gold is gold! As soon as we have the pic with a medal, I'll change it. LOL.

@thiago_simoes are you okay?

Nope we just have the most beautiful women

The higher execution tie-break makes sense to me, but the difficulty being more important than the penalty... not so much. 

Second ever Olympic gold for , first since 2004.

Matsuyama eliminated too. 

Slovakia ends up having the same success in golf and canoe slalom.

I really hope they use this to improve the level back home.

Unbelievable

Looks like the most unpopular player in pro golf is about to win a medal xD

If he misses out on gold or a medal, I feel like we should really jinx a Croatian and a Dutch athlete respectively out of respect for our Slovak buddy.

I agree now  

Wiebe will finish outside of the top 8.

Wiebe will finish outside of the top 8.

Really sad that Andrew won a gold medal.

Really sad that Andrew won a gold medal.

The BBC didn’t imply anything during the 2012 Olympics so they should be quiet here IMO

Really sad that Andrew won a gold medal.