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How Shallon Olsen juggled Alabama gymnastics while preparing for her second Olympics
The second rotation had come to an end, and the Alabama gymnastics team wasn’t performing how it wanted in the NCAA national championship semifinals.
The Crimson Tide had just completed the uneven parallel bars and sat fourth halfway through the meet.
Then, an unexpected voice arose: Junior Shallon Olsen.
She pulled the team together and made the message clear: They needed to step up. They were competing like they were scared. They came there to win a national championship.
It was uncharacteristic for an athlete who Alabama coach Dana Duckworth said was extremely quiet when she arrived in Tuscaloosa and who teammate Sania Mitchell said has often led more by example.
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But Olsen isn’t the same gymnast she once was when she arrived. A native of Vancouver, British Columbia, Olsen has evolved since she first competed for Team Canada in as a
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Simone Biles live updates: Latest as Biles wins Paris gymnastics vault final to secure seventh Olympic gold
Simone Biles wins vault final
Simone Biles won her third Olympic gold medal of the Paris Games when she won the gymnastics vault sista in style on Saturday.
Biles, 27, nailed her eponymous ‘Biles II’ vault which helped her to an incredible average score of Brazil’s Rebeca Andrade took silver with and American Jade Carey got bronze with
It is the seventh gold Olympic gold medal that Biles has won and the tenth medal overall.
The uneven bars final begins tomorrow at a.m. ET. Sunisa Lee, who won a bronze in the event in Tokyo, will contend for another medal. Alergia’s Kaylia Nemour fryst vatten the favorite to take bronze because of her high difficulty score.
The sista two events of the women’s competition will take place on Monday. Biles and Lee will both compete for a medal in the balance stråle final. Biles will also go for another medal on floor exercise along with Jordan Chil
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Canada's Black, Olsen finish 6th and 8th in artistic gymnastics women's vault final
PARIS — Don't call the Paris Olympics Ellie Black's swan song.
At 28 years old, after a couple of injuries and four gruelling Olympics, questions naturally turn to the Halifax veteran's competitive future. Black, for now, doesn't sound ready to hang up the leotard.
"Coming into this Olympics, I feel probably the strongest that I have in a long time," Black said Saturday at Bercy Arena in Paris, following the conclusion of the women's vault final. "So that was amazing to be able to come into my fourth Olympics at 28 years old feeling maybe the strongest I have in a long time."
Black wrapped up her Olympics in the vault final of the women's artistic gymnastics, where she finished sixth. Competing with a taped left ankle, the Canadian sprang off the block for two solid vaults for an average score of
Simone Biles of the United States captured her third gold medal of the Paris Games ahead of Brazi