Simone Biles slips off the balance beam during event finals to miss the Olympic medal stand

The 27-year-old hopped off the beam and onto the mat while thousands inside a packed Bercy Arena — including NFL great Tom Brady — let out an audible “ohhh.”
FALLING SHORT: USA's Simone Biles falls from the beam during the women's balance beam final at the Bercy Arena on the tenth day of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. Pic: Mike Egerton/PA Wire.

FALLING SHORT: USA's Simone Biles falls from the beam during the women's balance beam final at the Bercy Arena on the tenth day of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. Pic: Mike Egerton/PA Wire.

No medal for Simone Biles on the balance beam this time.

The American gymnastics star slipped and fell off the apparatus at the end of her acrobatic series during the Paris Games’ beam finals Monday, denying her an opportunity to add to the bronzes she won on the event at the 2016 and 2020 Games.

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