Written by Eun Kyung Kim at Today.com
An uncharacteristic error on the balance beam cost three-time Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles a fourth in Rio. The gymnast expressed disappointment in the mistake, even though it wasn’t enough to knock her off the medals podium.
“I am disappointed in how I performed my beam set. Not in the medal that I got because I shouldn’t have gotten any higher, so it is fine,” she told TODAY’s Hoda Kotb. “But if you think about it, I am the only gymnast out here that has competed as many times as I have, so I have to give myself props for that.”
“I’ve been training so hard so I’m glad I just did the routine I’ve been doing in practice and I have no regrets,” Hernandez told Kotb.
The win was her first for an individual Olympic competition.
“I kind of thought I was going to throw up before I went,” she said with a laugh. “My coach said, ‘That was the most nervous I’ve ever seen you before a meet,’ but then once I got on the beam I was actually more calm than I usually am.”
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