A fall off the beam, which is a full point deduction, left her in fifth place in the balance beam final. In her third Olympics, it was the first time she didn’t medal on beam. Biles was not the ...

During the balance beam final ... reporters including USA Today afterwards that Biles did get that deduction during the beam final — and made sure “she sure did not get deducted for it ...

Biles was seemingly performing an extended salute to the judges after receiving a deduction in the balance beam final only hours earlier. Her balance beam final proved frustrating. After falling ...

Here, we’ll look at the balance beam, starting with a broad overview ... Jumps and leaps can be minefields, with deductions for insufficient height, flexed feet and splits short of 180 degrees.

Simone Biles received an uncommon deduction after her balance beam routine on the final day of women's gymnastics Monday -- and she made sure the judges saw she wasn't making the same mistake ...

It wasn't Simone Biles' day on the balance beam ... missed a spot on the podium when she slipped off the beam, resulting in a one-point deduction. Her 13.100 score placed her fifth when the ...

That deduction didn't make a difference in the ... she would have won the competition easily. But the balance beam is a fickle apparatus, and the dreaded "beam curse" took out more than just ...