Jade Carey Wins Gold, Caeleb Dressel Breaks World Record

Jade Carey of Team USA in 2021
Jade Carey of Team USA in 2021. Photo by Richard Ellis/UPI/Shutterstock (12243537u)

Team USA has continued their domination in the floor exercise at the Olympics. After Aly Raisman and Simone Biles won gold medals in 2012 and 2016, respectively, Jade Carey continued the tradition and won the event at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Carey, who is competing at her first Olympics, entered the floor exercise after failing to get the medal at the all-around and vault. But the 21-year-old Phoenix-native bounced back in spectacular fashion on the floor, scoring 14.366 and finishing well ahead of second-placed Italian gymnast Vanessa Ferrari (14.200). Japan’s Mai Murakami and ROC’s Angelina Melnikova tied for third place.

More good news came for the United States on Monday, as Simone Biles confirmed she would compete in the balance beam finals. She will aim to better her results from the 2016 Olympics in Rio, where she took home the bronze medal.

Biles previously withdraw from multiple events, including all-around and vault, citing mental health as the reason.

In other Olympics news, Caeleb Dressel continued his medal hunt in Tokyo over the weekend and currently has five golds. This includes the medal in the 100m butterfly event, where he also broke his own world record.

Dressel set the record back in 2019 with a 49.50 performance at the World Championship. This time around, the 24-year-old swimmer finished the race at an impressive 49.45.

The United States women’s national team, on the other hand, is poised to have another disappointing outing at the Olympics’ soccer tournament. USWNT failed to make the finals, being handed a 1-0 loss by Canada in the semi-finals. All is not lost, however, as USWNT still has a chance to grab a bronze medal.

The U.S. still leads all countries in their medals count with 64. China is placed second with 62 medals while being the top gold getter with 29, while ROC has 50 medals in total.

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