| 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games | |
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City |
Tokyo, Japan |
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Venue |
Ariake Gymnastics Centre |
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Team Gold Medalist |
Russian Olympic Committee |
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All-Around Gold Medalist |
Sunisa Lee (USA) |
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Vault Gold Medalist |
Rebeca Andrade (BRA) |
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Uneven Bars Gold Medalist |
Nina Derwael (BEL) |
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Balance Beam Gold Medalist |
Guan Chenchen (CHN) |
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Floor Exercise Gold Medalist |
Jade Carey (USA) |
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The 2020 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXXII Olympiad, is a planned major international sports event that was scheduled to be held in the summer of 2020. After a bidding process involving three candidate cities, Tokyo won the vote to host the Games. Tokyo had previously hosted the Olympics in 1964.
The two other candidate cities put forward to the final vote were Istanbul and Madrid. The International Olympic Committee conducted their elections and announced the host city on 7 September 2013 at the 125th IOC Session in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Madrid and Istanbul received the same number of votes in the first round and, after a decisive vote between the two bids, Madrid was announced as having been eliminated. The Tokyo bid was later announced as having been successful.
During the 2019-2020 coronavirus pandemic, the IOC at first stood firm at holding the Olympics in July as scheduled. However, in late March, after several countries withdrew their athletes from the Games, the IOC relented and announced that the Games would be postponed.[1] The IOC announced that the Olympics would be held from July 23 to August 8, 2021.[2] Due to the ongoing pandemic, the Olympics were held without spectators.
The gymnastics competition was held at the Ariake Gymnastics Centre.
Format of Competition[]
The competition format was the same as at the previous Summer Olympics. All participating gymnasts, including those who were not part of a team, participated in a qualification round. Some countries had qualified up to two extra gymnasts to compete as individuals in addition to having their team of four gymnasts.[3] The results of this competition determined which teams and individuals participated in the remaining competitions, which included:
- The team competition, in which the eight highest scoring teams from qualifications competed. Each team of four gymnasts could only have three gymnasts perform on each apparatus, and all three scores counted toward the team total. The extra individual gymnasts did not participate in the team final or stand with their teams in the medal ceremony.
- The all-around competition, in which only the twenty-four highest scoring individuals in the all-around competed. Each country was limited to only two gymnasts in the all-around final.
- The event finals, in which the eight highest scoring individuals on each apparatus competed. Each country was limited to two gymnasts in each apparatus final.
Competition Schedule[]
| July 26 | Qualifications |
| July 28 | Team Final |
| July 31 | All-Around |
| August 2 | Vault Event Final |
| Uneven Bars Event Final | |
| August 3 | Floor Exercise Event Final |
| August 4 | Balance Beam Event Final |
Results[]
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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| Team |  Russian Olympic Committee
Lilia Akhaimova |
 USA
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 Great Britain
Jennifer Gadirova |
| All-Around | Sunisa Lee United States of America (USA) |
 Rebeca AndradeBrazil (BRA) |
Angelina Melnikova Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) |
| Vault | Rebeca Andrade Brazil (BRA) |
Mykayla Skinner United States of America (USA) |
 Yeo Seo-JeongSouth Korea (KOR) |
| Uneven Bars |  Nina DerwaelBelgium (BEL) |
Anastasiya Ilyankova Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) |
Sunisa Lee United States of America (USA) |
| Balance Beam |  Guan ChenchenChina (CHN) |
Tang Xijing China (CHN) |
Simone Biles United States of America (USA) |
| Floor Exercise | Jade Carey United States of America (USA) |
 Vanessa FerrariItaly (ITA) |
 Murakami MaiJapan (JPN)
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Notable Moments[]
- Four countries made their Olympic debut: Azerbaijan, Cayman Islands, Costa Rica, and Sri Lanka.
- Belgium qualified to the team final for the first time in Olympic history. They placed eighth.
- Russia won their first Olympic team title since the collapse of the Soviet Union. However, since they competed as the Russian Olympic Committee, this result does not count towards Russia's Olympic results.
- Great Britain won their first Olympic team medal since 1928. This also marks the first time since 1988 that a team that wasn't Russia, USA, Romania, or China won an Olympic team medal.
- USA's Simone Biles initially qualified to the all-around and every single event final, the first to do so since USA's Shannon Miller and Romania's Lavinia Miloşovici in 1992. However, after the team final, she withdrew from the all-around, vault, uneven bars, and floor exercise finals.[4][5][6] She was replaced by Jade Carey, Mykayla Skinner, Mélanie de Jesus Dos Santos, and Jennifer Gadirova, respectively. She did compete in the balance beam final, winning a seventh Olympic medal, tying her with Shannon Miller as the most decorated American at the Olympics. Her combined total of World and Olympic medals also ties her for most decorated gymnast with Larisa Latynina.
- Canada's Ellie Black also withdrew from the all-around. She was replaced by Netherlands' Lieke Wevers.[7]
- USA's Sunisa Lee became the first Asian gymnast to win the all-around.
- Rebeca Andrade achieved Brazil's best placement in the all-around: second. She also won Brazil's first Olympic gold medal: on vault.
- Yeo Seo-Jeong won South Korea's first Olympic medal: bronze on vault.
- Nina Derwael is the first Belgian gymnast to become Olympic Champion.
- Vanessa Ferrari won Italy's first individual Olympic medal: silver on floor exercise.
- Murakami Mai won Japan's first individual Olympic medal: bronze on floor exercise. She tied for third with Angelina Melnikova, but the tie wasn't broken due to both gymnasts having identical difficulty and execution scores.
- Romania's Larisa Iordache withdrew from the balance beam final due to ankle pain.[8] She was replaced by Japan's Ashikawa Urara.
Controversies[]
Medal Count[]
| Rank | Country | 
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Total |
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| 1 | USA
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2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
| 2 | Russian Olympic Committee
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1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 3 | Brazil
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1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 4 | China
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1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 5 | Belgium
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1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | Italy
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0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | Great Britain
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0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 8 | South Korea
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0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 9 | Japan
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0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |