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Simone Biles, of the United States, watches gymnasts perform after she exited the team final with apparent injury, at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Tuesday, July 27, 2021, in Tokyo. The 24-year-old reigning Olympic gymnastics champion Biles huddled with a trainer after landing her vault. She then exited the competition floor with the team doctor. (Ashley Landis / AP)
“If he really wants to fight us that badly, first of all, you’re in the wrong sport because this is baseball, we try to compete,” Báez said after the May 2021 incident. “I’m just tired of it. It doesn’t matter who would do it. Like, if you really want to fight then we go one on one. This is not a fighting game. This is not a game to be against someone, it’s about competing and winning games. … He needs to respect the game. If you don’t respect the game and if you don’t respect us, then that’s going to happen. Because he’s doing it to us.”
An officer reached into the vehicle to try to take the keys out of the ignition, and the woman drove off, dragging the officer with her, Howard said. Her vehicle hit another officer, who was able to fire at the vehicle, striking the woman three times, he said.
Abbott, relieving a day before her 36th birthday, and 38-year-old U.S. starter Cat Osterman were the last holdovers from the U.S. team that lost to Japan 3-1 in a stinging upset 4,723 days earlier and 1,300 miles distant. Osterman gave up the first two runs of that game and Abbott the last.
“What I’m pleased with, from our standpoint, is that it felt like were in control in a lot of the moment of the game, both with and without the ball, and that I like,” Gustavsson said. “After the Sweden game I was asked how we were going to approach the U.S. game and I said `We’re going to be true to who we are, and hopefully if we play our A game, it’s good enough.’”
Simone Biles, of the United States, watches gymnasts perform after she exited the team final with apparent injury, at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Tuesday, July 27, 2021, in Tokyo. The 24-year-old reigning Olympic gymnastics champion Biles huddled with a trainer after landing her vault. She then exited the competition floor with the team doctor. (Ashley Landis / AP)
USA’s Jordan Larson (10), Michelle Bartsch-Hackley (14), Foluke Akinradewo (16), Jordyn Poulter (2), Jordan Thompson (12) and Justine Wong-Orantes (4) celebrate their win, July 27, 2021. The USA defeated China 3-0. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune) (Brian Cassella / Chicago Tribune)
The U.S. began finals on vault, with Biles going last. She was supposed to do an “Amanar,” a vault that begins with a roundoff back handspring onto the table followed by 2 1/2 twists. She seemed to change her mind in mid-air, doing just 1 1/2 twist instead.
“It was a nice to get out there and compete a little bit with the group,” said Taurasi, who injured her hip in early July. “Yeah, I felt pretty good hopefully it keeps getting better day by day. As a group I think we did some good things today, some things we have to work on. I think overall it was a pretty good match by us.”
“It’s a special moment for our sport but I’ve got mixed feelings,” said Igarashi, who grew up surfing at Tsurigasaki beach, the Olympic site located about 60 miles east of Tokyo. “It’s so hard to gather that into words. I’m proud of myself, and I was of proud myself even before this event, but it’s just been such a roller-coaster in the last four years on the road for the Olympics.”