JO: Simone Biles smiles again and consoles herself with bronze

Gymnastics superstar Simone Biles won the bronze medal in the balance beam final at the Tokyo Games on Tuesday, behind China's Guan Chenchen who becomes Olympic champion and succeeds the American.

Stopped for a week, Biles, four-time Olympic champion in Rio, scored 14,000 points with a simplified exercise on the beam.

She was beaten by the Chinese Chenchen Guan with 14.633 points and Tang Xijing (14.233 pts).

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For the last women's gymnastics final of the Tokyo Olympics, Biles decided to go back down to the Ariake gymnastics arena in Tokyo and won a bronze medal.

She thus left Tokyo with two medals, the seventh of her career: the silver one in the team competition and this one on the beam, far from the record that everyone had lent her for months.

Loss of trustworthy

The star expected of the Games, plagued by a loss of confidence and faced with a phenomenon of loss of landmarks in space ("

" or twisties), had given up in full final of the all-around team, to the amazement general, then waived four finals (all-around, vault, floor, bars). Tuesday evening, she performed an exercise specific to the beam, but simplified in particular for her outing which she performed in a double back salto but without twists.

The phenomenon of "

" which makes him lose his bearings in space, is particularly problematic on rear acrobatics comprising twists, according to specialists, moreover in a gymnast who performs extraordinary acrobatics. Simone Biles already has four figures named after her and wanted to inaugurate a new one, on vault, during the Olympics. Before the competition started, she had warmed up quietly with her teammate Sunisa Lee - Olympic all-around champion in her absence - and repeated her movement with spins-free exits.