With Russia still barred from international competition, the U.S. women's gymnastics team wins gold at the world championships by a comfortable margin, resuming their streak and returning to the top of the podium.
, delivered 11 solid routines with only one major lapse. The Americans won the gold with a 166.564 total, well ahead of Britain and Canada . But all the medal-winning teams had gymnasts in tears with the results: Britain, coming off a team bronze in Tokyo, secured its best finish at world championships, and Canada, the only squad to hit all 12 routines, won its first team medal on a global stage.because of the country’s invasion of Ukraine.
Chiles, the only American to contribute on each apparatus, performed like a steady veteran, highlighted by her excellent beam routine after struggling with multiple falls in qualifying three days ago. Jones, 20, was the second-place finisherthis summer but had never before competed at worlds or the Olympics. In Liverpool, she had strong showings on vault, bars and floor.
With every score counting toward the total, any error can send a team tumbling out of medal contention. China began the competition on beam, and its first athlete, Tang Xijing, fell three times. Another Chinese gymnast fell off the apparatus, and China was in last after the first rotation, ultimately climbing to sixth place out of eight teams. Italy, which finished fifth, had similar trouble early in the competition with multiple athletes falling on release elements during their bars routines.
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