Simone Biles takes gold in gymnastics All-Around; Lee is bronze

Simone Biles holds off Brazil’s Rebeca Andrade in all-around, becomes oldest Olympic women’s gymnastics champ since 1952.

Suni Lee takes home the bronze.

Biles’ win makes history — she is the only American gymnast to win gold in the all-around final more than once.

Biles, Andrade and Lee — the top three finishers in all-around qualifying — are competing in the same rotation tonight. They started on vault, then went to uneven bars and balance beam. Last up was floor.

In her first big mistake of the Olympics, Biles botched a transition from the upper bar to the lower bar, a miscue that messed with her momentum and forced her to muscle her way back into her routine.

While Biles was the favorite to win the gold, after the mistake on the bars, it was unclear whether she would clinch it. But after bouncing back on beam and floor, she beat out silver-medalist Andrade by a 1.100 margin.

In Tuesday’s team final, Andrade only trailed Biles by 0.366 points in the all-around. Today, she wasn’t able to close that gap further.

It hasn’t always been this close. Before today’s win, Team USA had won the individual all-around in the last five Games, sometimes by just a thin margin and sometimes by more than a full point.

Lee, the reigning all-around champ just finished up the event final for the second time in her career.

She needed to give the best floor routine of her career (with a score of at least 13.535) to pull ahead of D’Amato and get into bronze medal position.

She scored a 13.666, which guaranteed her another Olympic all-around medal, following up her gold in Tokyo on the same event.

Lee flashed a huge smile after she stuck her first tumbling pass, an indicator of what was to come.