Simone Biles finishes off her return to the Olympics with a silver on floor exercise

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00:00Paris Olympics. She was bidding for a record five gold medals. Gymnastics

00:05legend Simone Biles will have to settle for three at these games. Biles slipping

00:09towards the end of her routine on the balance beams, gifting Italy's Alice

00:13D'Amato the win. The floor exercise followed to tell the tale. Let's cross to

00:19France 24's Celina Sykes. Celina, tell us more.

00:25Well Francois, it was a day of surprises and shock results really here at

00:30Bursa Arena. Rebecca Anrade winning the gold in the floor exercise and Simone

00:35Biles having to settle for silver. Biles knew that she had to deliver big on her

00:41floor routine after a flawless performance from the Brazilian Anrade.

00:45Biles performing two of her signature skills named after her. The height and

00:51power when you watch her do those tumbles is quite extraordinary. It's

00:55really quite something that we've never seen before in women's gymnastics. She is

00:58the best tumbler we have ever seen in the history of women's gymnastics but

01:02she stepped out of the area several times because of the sheer power and

01:06height of those tumbles and got some heavy deductions and that is ultimately

01:11what cost her here at Bursa Arena. She's usually unbeatable because of the

01:16sheer difficulty of what she does and no one else can do what she does but it

01:22happened here today. The Brazilian Rebecca Andrade and it has to be giving

01:26credit to her as well. She did a flawless routine at Bursa Arena full of

01:30Americans falling into a weird kind of silence once Biles' score came

01:35through and it was confirmed that the Brazilian would be getting the gold

01:40medal on the floor exercise and it was her first gold for the

01:47gymnast Rebecca Andrade and full credit should be given to her because

01:51she's grown up in this generation of Simone Biles. It's her first Olympics

01:55gold medal and she would have probably got her far many if she hadn't been

01:58competing so often with Biles by her side. Simone Biles having to settle for

02:03Silda and a weird end as well as Jordan Childs ended up getting the

02:08bronze after Team USA put in an appeal over her difficulty. She eventually got

02:14the bronze over Romanian Ana Balbusso from Romania and as you said

02:19Simone Biles also missing out on a medal earlier on the beam. A rare fall for her.

02:24I think it's the first that we've seen her fall in a big competition on the

02:28beam. She'd finished second in qualifiers on the beam

02:32but couldn't get a medal in that one either though she did manage to

02:36recompose herself for what was a absolutely a breathtaking a floor

02:40routine nevertheless even if it did get the silver and she'll go down Francoise

02:45obviously of being a pioneer of her sport of pushing the boundaries of what

02:49is possible and she's come here obviously as she said on her redemption

02:54tour after having suffered the twisties in Tokyo three years ago

02:57pulling out after the vast majority of events and she's come back here in Paris

03:01to end her Olympics career on her own terms and even if it might have not gone

03:05exactly to plan as she has wished for she's still got three gold medals here

03:10in the most prestigious gymnastic events the all-around women's events the team

03:14events and the vault which means that along with her gold medals in Rio there's

03:18three medals here in Paris gold medals and seven in total she still goes down

03:22as one of the greatest if not the greatest gymnast of all time yeah three

03:26golds one silver one bronze not a bad haul indeed Selena Sykes many thanks for

03:32that live update

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