Canada impresses with a fourth-place finish
DOHA, Qatar — The juggernaut led by Simone Biles keeps right on rolling, kidney stone or no kidney stone. The U.S. women’s gymnastics team cruised to a gold medal at the world gymnastics championships on Tuesday, extending a run of dominance that only seems to be picking up momentum.
The Americans won the world championship by a record 8.766 points.
“It shows how strong the group of girls are and how strong Team USA is,” Biles said after collecting the 15th world championship medal of her career despite dealing with pain from a kidney stone.
The U.S. put up a total of 171.629 points to win its fourth-straight world title and secure a spot at the 2020 Olympics. Silver medallist Russia and bronze medallist China also locked up Olympic berths by reaching the podium. Canada backed its surprising fourth in qualifying to finish a close fourth behind the Chinese.
“I’m so proud of the girls today,” Black said. “We had a few mistakes, but there were so many positives, so many good parts of the day,” said team member Ellie Black.
“We ended up making history coming fourth as a team in team finals, our best-ever result, and we couldn’t be more happy with that. I think we represented Canada just the way we like to ... never giving up.”