Olympic Games 2024 live updates: Simone Biles and Suni Lee compete for gold

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On the “Call Her Daddy” podcast, Simone Biles walks Alex Cooper through what she was thinking during the team final at the Tokyo Olympics, and how her coaches reacted when she said, “I want to go back to the Olympics.”

Rare for both American women to medal

Reporting from Paris

Simone Biles and Suni Lee are seeking to be only the third pair of American women to both medal in the individual all-around at the same Olympics.

At the 2008 Beijing Games, Nastia Liukin won gold and Shawn Johnson won silver. Eight years later at Rio, Biles won gold and Aly Raisman won silver.

Biles appears to clap back at former Olympic teammate who criticized Paris team’s work ethic

Kaetlyn LiddyKaetlyn Liddy is a newsroom coordinator for NBC News Digital.

Upon winning the gold medal in Tuesday’s team final, Biles posted a photo to Instagram with the caption, “lack of talent, lazy, olympic champions,” which appeared to be a reference to controversial comments made by MyKayla Skinner during the U.S. Olympic trials.

Now, Skinner has reportedly blocked Biles on social media, according to an Instagram story posted by newly-minted gold medalist Jordan Chiles and a post on X by Biles.

“I feel like the talent and the depth just isn’t what it used to be … obviously, a lot of the girls don’t work as hard,” Skinner said in a YouTube video that has since been deleted.

Though she said Biles was an exception to this observation, Skinner faced swift criticism for disparaging the work ethic of the current U.S. team and issued an apology on social media.

Age is nothing but a number to Biles

Biles is used to her numbers coming in higher than those of most of her competitors. And when it comes to age, it’s no different.

At 27, Biles is the oldest Olympic gymnast to win a gold medal since 1964.

She and her Team USA teammates earned gold at the team final Tuesday, giving Biles’ her eighth Olympic gold medal — the most of any U.S. gymnast.

Kaetlyn LiddyKaetlyn Liddy is a newsroom coordinator for NBC News Digital.

For many years, understanding gymnastics was pretty simple — falls are bad, and a 10 is the best score! Some of the old rules still stand, but scoring in the sport is more complicated than it was in past decades.

Scoring in gymnastics has changed significantly since the days of Nadia Comăneci and her illustrious “Perfect 10.” The current scoring system can seem less intuitive than the previous one to audiences who do not follow the sport between the Olympic Games.

The Perfect 10 still exists in gymnastics, but it is no longer the only metric used to calculate a score. Today’s gymnasts receive scores in two separate categories for each routine: difficulty and execution. The difficulty score is open-ended, while execution is scored out of a 10.00.