Rio-2016: a gold double of American gymnasts, Russia has bronze

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American gymnast Simona Biles became the Olympic champion of the Rio-2016 in absolute all-around. The second was another representative of the US team, Alexandra Reisman, and Russian Aliya Mustafina won a bronze medal.

NBC television commentator El Troutwig brought the wrath of the American public upon himself by refusing to call the adoptive mother and father of gymnast Simona Biles the "parents".

19-year-old Biles, for whom the current Olympics became the first in his career, previously won the gold medal of the team championship with partners in the US team. In addition, she is the 10 multiple world champion.

Based on the results of individual competitions in artistic gymnastics, which consist of performances on 4 apparatus, Biles scored 62,198 points. Raisman, a two-time champion of London 2012, lost to her by 2 points, and Mustafina - about 3,5 points.

For 21-year-old Russian Mustafina, this is already the fifth Olympic medal in her career. Four years ago, she won gold in the uneven bars, silver in the team event and two bronze medals in the all-around and floor exercise.

As wrote ForumDaily, on the eve of the finals in the all-around scandal brokeassociated with the adoptive parents of Simone Biles. American NBC television commentator Al Trautwig brought the anger of the public in the United States by refusing to call the adoptive mother and father of the gymnast “parents”.

Gold Biles was already 13-m for the US team, which heads the medal standings of the Olympics-2016 in Rio de Janeiro. In total, the Americans already have 33 medals.

The Russian team, with 17 medals won, of which 4 are of the highest value, occupies 7th place in the medal table (the Russians are in 4th place in terms of the sum of all medals).

Like Mustafina, the bronze medals on Thursday were won by Russian fencing riders, who were third in the team championship. In a duel for 3, they defeated the Estonian national team with an 37: 31 score.

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