Day 4 BBC One: 20.00-22.00 Olympics

Timing is everything. Every hand placed impeckably, every position

held. The epitome of control. Every burst, every explosion of energy

choreographed to the beat. Without timing there is no control, no

grace, no finesse. Timing is everything.

Timing is indeed everything. Let's get ready to tumble and fly with

gymnastics tonight. Hello and good evening, we are live here in Rio. It

is the evening of day four of the Games of the 31st Olympiad. Great

Britain have four medals so far. None yet today. That could change

this evening. For the next two hours we're focussing on the women's team

competition in the Olympic arena. Gymnastics is one of the great

Olympic sports. It has so many big stars. You think of Olga Corbett and

the men yesterday just missing out, finishing fourth. For the women, if

they were to win a medal, it would be the first for female gymnastics

as a team since 1928. It could be an historic night. The USA very much

lead the way thanks to Simone Biles. But they are hot favourites for

gold. The other medals are very much up for grabs. It's going to be very,

very exciting. Here's what we've got coming up:

That diving is live on BBC Four right now if you want to watching

it. Tonia Couch and Lois Toulson are in with a chance. You can access up

to 24 live streams online and on the BBC Sport app. Lots of ways to keep

across the BBC, the 5 Live coverage is fantastic as well. Every medal is

covered. Don't forget the catch up programme from tomorrow morning as

we try to bring you all the events that will have happened through the

night. That's on BBC Two and it shows you all the the medals and

everything you might have missed. The women's team competition is

about to start. Before we do, let's meet the British team.

# I'm going to swing from the chandelier

# From the chandelier # I'm going to live like tomorrow

doesn't exist # Like it doesn't exist... #

I started when I was four. I'd probably say I fell in love with it

at about 10 or 12. I didn't love it at first. I had my moments when I

was like, six, seven, eight, I was just like no, I don't think I want

to do it. You just kind of continue to do. It then you just grow to love

it. Now I couldn't imagine my life without it. It's so exciting and for

me personally, it's been a long road to get here. Four years ago, I

wasn't sure if I even wanted to carry on with gymnastics. After a

break I decided I wanted to go again and this time to enjoy it a lot

more. This has been my favourite cycle It's incredible. I've dreamt

about this moment since I was little. I was six when I started

gym. I never knew how hard it would be. But I'm really, really excited.

We need to keep doing what we're doing, work hard and gym's ups and

downs, hopefully it will go well together in the end. It will be a

hard fight for a medal. But that's what we're hoping for. We're working

super hard in the gym doing everything we can to get the extra

tenths and fitness to make everything look that bit easier,

cleaner. As the years have gone on the team's got stronger and

stronger. That's one of the most exciting parts. It's not just the

individual honours, that's nice as well, but to know that the team's

got an opportunity and the worlds last year we had an opportunity and

it came our way. Everybody's really striving for that team medal and to

be part this afternoon is really special.

-- to be part of that is really special.

This is their moment, the British team of Becky and Ellie Downie,

Claudia Fragapane, Ruby Harrold and Amy Tinkler. They are determined to

enjoy the whole experience. Ellie had a nasty fall in qualification.

Her sister Becky there. They're young, keen, enthusiastic and all

inspired by Beth Tweddle and the wonders that she has produced

already in Olympics and World Championships gone by. Claudia

Fragapane there has been involved since she was just 14 years old. The

American team, Simone Biles going for five gold medals. No gymnast has

ever won five at one Olympics. Gaby Douglas as well. They are

superstars. Along with Michael Phelps, Simone Biles is probably the

most famous name competing here. If the British team can produce clean

routines they could be on for a medal. Let's join Christine Still,

bronze medallist Beth Tweddle and former British junior gymnastics

champion Matt Baker. Thanks Claire. Lauren Hernandez with

the first vault for Team USA. What a start for them. We are expecting

them to be well ahead of the rest of the world. That is a perfect example

of why. A good start. A good start, not perfect, though, Matt. If you

look here. It's a good, high flighted double twisting vault. But

she's right on the edge of the line for landing. If she landed with her

feet outside the second line, she'll get a deduction. Oh, she just creeps

in and steps over. Should just be OK.

There Nice and tight this vault is marked out of 5. 8. So the maximum

she can score for this is 15. 8. Wasn't much else wrong with it. It

was good and tight. They'll be hoping to start with a 15. Just to

give you an idea of how this team final works. Each country has a team

of five gymnasts. They select three to go on each piece of apparatus.

Every single score counts that. Is why this is such a tough and brutal

format. We saw yesterday that, you know, every fall and every big

dismount goes towards that team total in the finish. A score of 15.

1 for Lauren Hernandez. This was quite high considering. Beth? Yeah,

I mean, obviously, it was slightly off direction. There was a slight

leg separation at the end. Maybe the judges couldn't quite see that.

We're going to see the next vaulter from the USA. This is Alexandra

Raisman. Just a slight bring the legs together at the end. But a

fantastic second vault. They will be pleased with that score. This is

where you will see the Americans leaping ahead. They were ten marks

clear, Chris, in qualification. They are. The only team really that has

two vaults of this difficulty and quality. It's where they are way

above the rest of the world. You can see two-and-a-half twists, tiny bit

off direction. If they think this is perfect, the judges, they'll take

nothing off for execution. She could score 16. This is the thing, because

this landing, I mean, it's almost blind. She can spot it a bit there.

A tough one to actually nail. It is very difficult. The blind landings

are not what you want. Just to give you an idea of how these scores

work. These days gymnasts can get extra marks for doing harder vaults

or harder routines. Keep your eye on that difficulty score. Basically, in

effect, it's the execution added to the difficulty. Talking of

execution, this is the point where you could see the first perfect ten

in this new scoring system. It's going to be done by this girl, we

believe, potentially at these Olympics. Maybe not here, but maybe

in the team final. A big, huge run into the round-off

flick entry, two-and-a-half, slip hop at the end. But you can't take

away. There is literally nothing else to deduct on that vault except

that tiny hop at the end. She scored a 16 in qualification for that. We

will not get a chance to see that in slow motion. Instead we go to Daria

Spiridonova from Russia. Who is one of the gymnasts that share the gold

at the World Championships. There was a four-way split. This is a

strong piece of apparatus for her to start with. A clean start, straight

back down to the low bar, legs are locked together throughout the

routine. Straight back up to the top bar with the half turn. Short on the

hand stand. The half turn, into the front somersault. Nice, clean catch.

Full turn. Into the dismount. A very, very short routine, but

because she's linking every element, that's where she builds up her

difficulty. That follows the first Russian gymnast, Melnikova, who

scored 15. 133. This apparatus, the bars, are where Russia really reign.

They qualified top on bars. You see the beautiful, straight line,

fingers to toes, perfectly pointed toes. Because she makes each move so

well, she can link it straight into the next element. Super high front

somersault. Just a tiny bit of a deduction for bent arms on the

catch. A tiny deduction for bent legs past the low bar. A bit of a

step. But very clean. She doesn't look too pleased with that routine.

It wasn't necessarily as good as the qualification one. We will see what

the difficulty value was and how they're coming out with it. Now,

first time she hasn't scored 16 for a long time. Feeling the pressure,

perhaps a bit, guys? Well, they're desperate to try and, well, Simone

wants that fifth Gold Medal. She's got the potential. She's in the

finals. America on 46. 866. It's a huge, huge score. Spiridonova just

waiting for her score. She will be followed by the current Olympic

champion, Mustafina. Who has been up and down with injury over the last

Olympic cycle. But she's back. She's being pushed by the younger gymnasts

coming through. The youngsters have been adding a lot of fizz to the

Russian team. Yeah, we've seen the Russian team didn't look too strong

at the Europeans. When we watched them in training here, they've

really upped their game. Mustafina has had a tough couple of years.

Maybe a bit of injury. But she's back in that qualification routine

we saw, back to what she was like when she won the Olympic tight until

2012. One of the reasons is potentially the gymnast on the right

side there, Tutkhalian, who is a sprightly little thing to say the

least. That's a good half a mark down on her qualification score. She

knew it wasn't her best. Russia going round with Great Britain. It's

a half time, if you like, within each of the rotations here. Great

Britain will get a three-minute warm up after the next Russian gymnast,

who is the current Olympic champion, Mustafina.

Just waiting for everything to be sorted. Mustafina is saluting to the

judges. We are not in control of the pictures. That's why we're just

watching the gymnasts and not looking at Mustafina's routine.

We're going to go across to floor. This is China. Japan I should say.

Miyakawa. So far they are on 28.566 for their

gymnasts. 16 years old. She was just outside the medals at the World

Championships on floor. This gymnasts, one of the team from Japan

that are promising much these days. And she is a very special humbler.

-- special tumbler. Gymnasts work to music, have two includes dance and

tumbles. Look at that, a double street somersault with full twist,

but just unable to control the landing. Stepped out of the floor.

One deduction for each foot out. This is a really impressive tumble.

A straight front somersault. That was a super landing. Gymnasts have

two express the floor routines. They have to include difficult leaps and

spins. Just a lack of control from that falls in. -- that full spin.

Another difficult tumble, this time in the tucked position. Twisting

back. That was good. Gymnasts are allowed up to four tumbles. They can

choose how many they have. A super double straight, but undercooked it

a little bit. A very ambitious floor routine full of excitement, but I

have to say a few deductions as well. Well, the Japanese qualified

in seventh place. From our position, we think Mustafina had a storming

routine. We will try to bring you that if we can. We can see that

first tumble as she stepped out, just a .1. Bring out. But this one,

lovely. She bounded out of the floor. Just a 0.1 for stepping out.

Huge difficulty here. This is the fourth tumble. You can see her chest

was well down. A big step forward. A 0.5 deduction, maybe slightly more.

I can tell you that Ali Mustafina's score is in and it's a 15.933 which

is exactly the same as what Simone Biles scored on vault. That is some

feat really, because we think of bile is almost superhuman on vault.

So for Mustafina to be able to match, that is pretty impressive.

And there is the total for Russia on bars.

Japan, one of the teams that could be in the mix in the top five. But

of course all three scores have two can't. If there's one routine like

that with a few deductions it's going to harm the team total. It is

such a brutal format, this. For Great Britain, it's not a bad order.

To come out on bars and then moved to the beam. And then for as much as

you can to enjoy vault and floor. Do you think it will suit this rotation

format? The good thing is Britain started on bars in the

qualification. All of their training leading up to the Olympic Games,

they were starting on bars. They will not have to change that train

of thought. They can also come in. They were able to get used to be

light and the atmosphere, take it all in and then concentrate, get in

the zone ready to get up on bars and focus on their job in hand.

Obviously, get all of the nerves out of the way and then head over to

beam where we had a couple of problems in qualification. Then

hopefully go and enjoy floor and vault. And we understand that

Claudia is going to go all out in difficulty on the beam. This is a

tough task. They know that an opportunity. There's only one

gymnast with a higher start go on being banned Claudia and that is

Simone Biles. That's how difficult the beam routine is but she is

attempting. Didn't quite manage to pull it off and qualification but

she will be going for it this time round. Really the tactics of the

team and the coaches has to be to go for broke. For the girls to win that

medal we have to go for the difficult routine. We have not heard

about Ruby's routine. We would expect her to go for the more

difficult routine but she didn't use and qualification. But who knows? If

that the team decision, we've obviously not seen what their

training has been like. Even though Rebecca and Claudia have had

mistakes and qualification, their team coaches will have seen them

training and no that they can perform those routines. They have

made that decision to put them back up for the team final. A real shame

that Becky Downie did make the bars final. We couldn't see, but we were

all quite surprised at how low the score was. As far as the release and

captures are concerned, she stayed on, she got through the routine and

you will see for yourself how hairy some of these routines are.

Hopefully she will feel confident to build on that now. I think she knows

that individual chance has gone. Her one shot at the Olympic medal is now

18 one. She will have re-grounded herself and spoken to the coaches.

-- is a team one. And early as well, her sister, she had a shaky

qualification. I think we are just warming up. Yes, I think we are. She

did, Ellie took a nasty tumble. She had already jarred her back a little

bit in the training. The floor is very hard apparently, absolutely

everyone has said. She was already a little bit tender. But you took

medical advice, they said she was fine and she stormed back. She will

be wanting to really show everybody what she can do. China going round

with the USA. This is Mao Yi. She is working the floor and vault today.

Just 16 years old, but still full of power. Entry with the double twist.

Chest slightly down on the landing but a great start to the Chinese

medal potential. It's fair to say that the USA have almost been given

the gold medal from the media here. In the fight really is for silver

and bronze. It is. A lot of the other teams have all got very

similar work. Really, other than on vault, the Americans have got so

much more. Simone Biles is a very special gymnast. Leading the team,

she gives them more consistency making it different to the others.

That was a nice vault. China worked in the first round in qualification.

Looking back, the scores were quite harsh on that first round. I would

expect to see China fighting back hard. Just bear in mind that score

of 46.166 that Russia have posted in this fight for silver and bronze.

Even on the first piece of apparatus, we are talking about it.

It's China, Russia and Great Britain all within a shout. Just a reminder

that all three scores count the matter whether you're on vault,

floor, bars or beam. Tan Jiaxin for China. She is doing vault and bars

today. A world silver medallist -- China world silver medallists as a

team. Entry using the same vault with the double twist. Chest

slightly higher on the landing but did have that hop back. China versus

Russia as we speak. China are hugely improved on vault. They are slight

gymnast in the making. They struggled on vault in the past but

are looking much more confident and competent. Nicely extended body

position. As Beth said, a big hop back. But good direction keeping

inside those two lines. Ideally be gymnast wants to be plonked down the

middle. But as long as they did go outside the sidelines there is no

specific deduction. Wraps the arms in, steadied the landing. Just to

bring you up to date with what's been going on elsewhere in the

arena, 14.7664 China's second vault. Brazil have had a big deduction and

they have also had a fall over on beam. A six difficulty posted for

Wang Yan, the last of the Chinese vaulters. The second-highest

qualifiers for this team final. Focusing in and ready. She's going

to use a different entry with a double twist. A very small gymnast,

but lots and lots of power. Just that step on the landing. Just

managed to pull it around in time. Celine van Gernder for the

Netherlands now. Really a chance to talk about all the different style

of gymnasts. The Netherlands are going for a completely different

style. In fact, having them and the Americans on the floor at the same

time is fantastic because they show something quite different. Nice

tumbling, one and a half into front. But it's the dance work that is

really what they are renowned for. Good leaps. Every gymnast trust to

include tumbles, leaps and spins. But it's that choice. -- every

gymnast must include. They have to do at least read leaps or spins back

count towards their aid elements. -- at least eight.

This gymnast chose just two tumbles, so not so many opportunities for the

judges to deduct for landing. More difficult to build a real high

starting score. China's score is now for 4.3 32. -- 44 .332. That puts

them in third position behind Russia and the USA, but still a lot of

gymnastics to go. We are only halfway around the first rotation. A

chance to see Great Britain on bars. Becky Downie, current European

champion. Great Britain are on a score of 29.466 with two gymnasts. A

big routine coming up. Come on, Becky! A clean start. The forward

toe on enough to get that special requirement in. Straight up to the

top bar. Into the big release and catch, that's where she had been

trouble in the qualification by catching her heels. Full turn into

the giant. Her own release and catch that's been named after her. And

then this big huge release right at the end of the routine. Lots of

energy needed for it. Just going, just needs the final wind up for the

dismount. Nailed the landing. Fantastic routine, Becky. That was a

great way for the British team to finish and I think we will catch up

with some of the British team after her routine. Becky is through, we

will catch up with Ruby Harrold's routine so far. But read-through, so

far, so good. You could see the pressure on her face before she

started. Here she really swings bars with great virtuosity. She generates

speed. You can see the lift of her body right above the bar so that she

can this hugely difficult height release. She clipped her feet in

qualification but not there, she was clean.

She was able to link that one straight into the somersault down to

the low bar. It's these big mar lirchinged together that -- moves

linked together that make this routine special. She can do a

routine worth 6. 9. This might be a 6. 8. It will be a good routine.

Unbelievable composure knowing that every single routine, every score

counts towards that team total. They don't want to give anything away.

They're going round with Russia. So they're going to get a really good

idea of how things look. Thorsdottir competing at the moment on floor.

China 44. 332 sees them in third at the moment. We're waiting for Becky

Downie's score to come in. Everyone feeling a little more

settled. As settled as you can knowing you're moving on to beam!

Yeah, that was a key routine for Becky. Obviously, she'd had the

problems in qualification so she needed to have a good start. Now

she's had that, she's settled herself down. She's there with her

sister. I'm not sure what they're discussing, but they can head over

to beam knowing that they've got those first three routines cleanly

through. It's everything that they hoped for

at this stage. Maybe down on Russia just a little bit. They are, yes,

44. 866. Great Britain in third at the moment. We'll take that score.

This is Ruby Harrold's routine. Beth, talk us through this.

Here the clean start, upstart hand stand. Straight back down with the

full twisting move. Colin stepping in for safety with this unique

combination. Down to the low bar, jam packed routine throughout. Then

the half turn into the front somersault. Nice, clean catch. The

hop into the reverse grip. The double front with just one step on

landing. See the delight on the team's face.

A very, very important routine for Russia. This happened moments ago to

leap them ahead of Great Britain. This is what happened. Beth over to

you again. A real competitor of yours in the

past. She was. She won the Olympic title when I was third. I didn't

want to say that! Thanks. Straight back into the low bar. Up to the

high bar, four elements connected together. That's how she builds her

difficulty right up. The half turn into the Yager somersault. No need

for the coach to be there. She was cleanly on the bar. Half turn, back

to the dismount she used in London 2012 and a very, very good landing.

A chance then to see Ellie Downie. Gymnast that was second up for Great

Britain following Ruby Harrold. Working every piece today. She is,

very good all rounder. There's the forward grip element. We need to get

this special requirement into the big move. That's where she faultered

in the team final in the 2015 worlds. Straight down to the low

bar. Managing to keep the routine going the whole way through. Just

missed her feet coming in there for that. Finishing off this routine

with a big wind of giant into the double straight and a small hop

forward. She's the ultimate competitor and she has been super,

Chris, as far as the British team are concerned. She has always been

from very young, a really confident competitor. Don't want to say too

much, because they move to beam next and probably for Ellie, beam's been

the piece she's had to work the hardest on. But that was a lovely

piked Jaeger. Bars is something, strangely enough her two best pieces

are opposite to her sister. She's fought hard to make the bars as

strong as that. Gymnasts moving to the second rotation. Here's how

things look after the first: Having a look back here at Flavia

Saraiva from Brazil. Lots of confidence. Lovely style as well.

She's a classical gymnast. When she works, the toes are beautifully

pointed. Of course, those are all the things that the judges look for.

They want to see toes completely pointed, legs straight. The top

three qualifying for beam. Nice and supple. Confident with the head

release. Now she linked the two jumps without the feet moving, but

whether the judges would think there was a pause is another matter.

Confident in those two, though. Two free walkovers and a side

somersault, tiny loss of balance. Straight up, here we go, double

pike. There were a couple of steps, but a great, sparky performance.

That's the definition of a crowd placer. This place just erupts.

Wonderful to have Brazil in the team final. They're seventh at the

moment. Japan are in sixth. Germany fifth.

The United States goes for their third ever Olympic team Gold Medal,

and their second consectively. Great Britain now on beam. They will start

longside Russia. They'll have to wait there for a moment on beam.

You've got the Netherlands and Japan on vault. China and the USA move to

bars and Germany and Brazil are going to be on floor.

Ellie Downie with the job of starting the beam competition for

Great Britain. Just a reminder, all three scores

will count for the team total. They're going to be packing in the

difficulty. They'll do everything they can to get a team medal here at

the Olympic Games final. Now, this piece of apparatus just

takes hours of work. You have to do the routines over and over and over.

Then keep calm on the day. Come on Becky, nice, big front somersault. A

very difficult skill, though. She's completely blind going in, half turn

- oh, and it was blind and it was off. You could see the hips were the

wrong side. You have to go for the difficulty. There's no marks for

playing safe in this game. But this score has to count. So she needs to

recover herself and still give a good performance. Another difficult

element coming up here. Double spin. She holds on well. She hasn't yet

done an acrobatic series, which is one of the requirements. Here it

comes. Back flip, layout somersault. Hold firm, Ellie. Into the free cart

wheel. Bonus marks 0. 1 for joining the jump and free cart wheel. Now

she's got a big dismount to consider. A roundoff, lifts high,

two-and-a-half twists, great landing. Well that was a super

routine. What a shame about that fall. What a comeback. The thing is

you've got to put things like that behind you. There was the potential

to give away even more with that routine, Beth, but she stuck those

moves, carried on and every country has to do beam. We know and we can

see here her hips were off to the side of the beam. With beam there is

no room for error. She did well to get back up, control herself, calm

her nerves and finish it off for the team. They know how important it is

for every single tenth. The fall has happened. There's nothing you can do

about that except get back up and finish the routine to the best of

your ability, which she did for the team. China have also had a fall.

It's just happened. Fall for fall as far as Great Britain are concerned

with China. Over to vault and the Netherlands.

Just slightly landing backwards. She had to take the step backwards.

Vaults are given tariffs. And the straight somersault, the full twist

is a five. If you do one-and-a-half twists it goes up to 5. 3. If you do

two twists, it's 5. 8. That's how it's all building. There we go. It's

quite a difficult vault. She had underrotated. She had to step back

to save it. That's where the judges will deduct. Just doing the one

piece of apparatus today. Vera Van Pol. Nice lift, good shape. In fact,

she did very well just to step back. It would have been easy as anything

to sit down at that point. Dutch gymnasts doing fantastically well

here. Didn't qualify for last Olympics. So to be in team final is

amazing. This is their first team final for 30 years. Quite something.

They're on 28. 033. In the words of the great Mitch Fenner, next

apparatus please. The Americans there. You get a team

of five. Each country selects three gymnasts for each piece of

apparatus. I know we keep saying it, every score counts, but... It does.

It's interesting the format, to be honest with you. I think London was

the first time where they did that three to count as far as the

Olympics is concerned. It doesn't half make a difference. It makes a

huge difference. As a gymnast, normally you know you've got to go

clean. If you've got the safety blanket of knowing it's four up,

three to count, it is slightly less pressure. But here, the stakes are

huge enough as it is. You're going for an Olympic medal. To suddenly

know if you make that mistake, it can mean the difference between an

Olympic medal and not. Yilin Fan, I said about a four-way split for gold

at the worlds. China need their world champion right now having

encountered a fall already on this apparatus. The clean full turn,

straight up to the high bar. She's building the difficulty by linking

so many elements together. Just caught that. Into the full turn.

Into another full turn. Into a half turn. And winding up for the

dismount. Using the double straight and a small pace backwards. She

certainly played the margins there. She did several catches right on her

fingertips. Tiny gymnast. She had to work hard to get that routine right

through. The Chinese are nouned for using all -- are renowned for using

all the turning elements. Since London they've been changing their

style and starting to use other moves. That was quite bent armed.

That's a bit of a deduction. 0. 0. 3 perhaps for catching close. These

are the turns. You have to try and finish in hand stand, which she did

beautifully. The double straight dismount, lovely shape. Just

controlled the landing, a little pace.

A little bit of an edgy routine, I felt. If you've seen your team-mate

fall, it's pretty much bound to be. There were moments where I thought

she was going to fly off. She did well to keep the whole routine

going. China were in fourth going into this rotation.

Very nice double straight somersault.

Double twisting front somersault, good variety there.

Super twiple spin. -- triple spin. Quite a few marks given for musical

interpretation. And plenty given for landing dead like that.

Nicely done. Big tumbles, big variety and smooth, expressive

dance. She didn't have a huge start value or difficulty value in

qualification, just a 5.7 where you will get the big sixes and people

doing the big tumbles. But that was a really enjoyable routine. A chance

to see Claudia Fragapane. Come on, Claudia. Claudia's got a very

difficult beam routine. She came to grief on one of the elements in the

qualification. Watch here carefully. There is the Arabian, very nicely

done. The half-tone into the front somersault. Two good leaps. She did

well there because her foot was across the beam. Now the acrobatic

series. Lots of concentration needed. Flip, straight somersault

with full twist. A bit of a fight, but she stayed on. The free

cartwheel. She is certainly showing grit and determination here. She is

a very determined gymnast, Claudia. Nice spin. Good rhythm, good

movement. Now another super difficult move, standing full twist.

Very nicely done into the jump. She has absolutely packed this routine

full. They turning jump as well. Everything in. Actually, she has

settled nicely. A big dismount needed. It has to be clean. One

Flip, two flips, up, double pike. Wow, super landing! But showed every

part of British grit. Her feet were just on the edge, but there was no

way she was coming off. Free cartwheel, standing full twist. This

whole routine is jam-packed. You can see from overhead the flick into the

full twist. And the big, huge dismount. Flick to want, click to

two, double pike. It has been a conversation for a lot of people who

know about gymnastics, 14.433. How tough do you go? As far as Claudia's

beam routine is, she went all out. As did Becky Downie, this happens

just moments ago. She can be absolutely beautiful, but she can

also be inconsistent. Today her team need consistency. The first move was

well controlled, a lovely front somersault, a lovely high one. This

is the unusual acrobatic series. A free cartwheel into a layout

somersault. Very nicely performed. A lovely rhythm. A change like leap,

change like half. Those are the two difficult leaps. -- change leg leap,

change leg half. Leaps like that gets in bonuses. Then, has to

control but does so well. Now the free walkover into the jump. -- the

split jump. Very nice, supple and elegant as a gymnast. Side.

Somersault She fought well there. Now there is one big element to go

as well as the dismount. Change leg to the ring position. That was well

performed. She needs a good strong dismount to give her a good score.

Oh, a bit of a bound forward but she kept her hands off the floor. That

will do, that will do. Goodness me, another routine packed with

difficulty. For Becky, this is huge. She didn't get selected for London

2012. She did compete in Beijing. This is a real chance for her,

probably her last chance, to get an Olympic medal. Definitely her last

chance. She had that front somersault, that was a skill that

have problems in qualification. It is the first element so you want to

get that over with. The rest of the routine, there is the two jumps but

you need. Christine was saying how elegant she is and she shows that

off throughout her whole routine. The fight in this dismount shows how

much this team means to her. She was not going to put her hands down. You

can see her team-mates really appreciating the effort. You can see

the physio to the right, she helps keep the gymnasts performing day in

day out and with all of their recovery. We know there will be

tough competition between Great Britain, China and Russia. Russia

still to go. We know that China have already counted one fall. Great

Britain won fall, China 141. Like you say, everybody has to come to

beam. -- China one fall. Four years ago, we were the bottom team in team

final on beam. We absolutely know we have got to put that behind us.

There's your husband. What are you reading into his body language? I

don't think she's really happy with that performance at the moment. He's

Mr supercool. They look like they're just checking Becky's difficulty

values. They've got them all written down so that if there is any

discrepancy when her scores, they can check straightaway and put a

protest in. The judges are taking their time. Becky looks a little bit

anxious. She does. She knows maybe there's a couple of things that she

wouldn't maybe have given 100%. 5.9 difficulty, 14.166. Do you think

that slow? No, I think that's what I expected. I think that would be what

I'm expecting. She did look a little bit unhappy with it. Two pieces

down. We talked about the rotation order. It's going well for Great

Britain, vault and floor for them to come. Japan in sixth position at the

moment. You can see at the top of the screen there, the 5.8

difficulty. A very powerful vault with her small step. I will tell you

that Russia have just had a full already. -- a fall. The fight for

silver and bronze, all of those countries have one fall each.

Melnikova is up currently for the Russians, and she fell in

qualification as well. A very nice gymnast, a little bit different. No

perky ponytail. She has a different style of her own but she is a

fabulous tumbler and a solid Volta. We have seen a 15 from the American

team for that vault. That looked a good vault to me as well. We will

have to see what it comes in as. This gymnast will be busy, working

three of the four pieces of apparatus. Many gymnasts are already

half round. Japan, 14.833 four Miyakawa. -- for Murakami. The

difficulty of 6.2, in effect this whole vault is marked out of 16.2.

Asuak Teramoto, also in the all-round final. Using the

handspring entry. Just a slight stumble at the end, almost tripping

over her own feet trying to present. I'm always impressed with this

vault. She is such a tiny gymnast. The platform is quite big. She gets

her hands into the front. She has to go up and along to clear it. You can

see as she hops forward she is almost on top of the vault. But it's

a highly credited vault. Marked out of 6.2, so 16.2. Really, other than

the hops around landing and perhaps a little bit of deduction for lack

of length it is very well formed. The men's team got back to God

yesterday in the team final. Gabrielle Douglas for team USA will

be next to go on bars. She follows Simone Biles. This is routine number

two for the USA. Jumps to the high bar into the full turn. Big catch,

straight into the pack on the low bar. Then steep with the half term.

-- half term. Building the difficulty each time she is using

these elements. Here is the wind-up to the dismount. The double

straight. And the stock landing at every gymnast dreams of. She didn't

get the chance to make the all-round final and retain the all-round title

that she won in London 2012. But I can tell you that Simone Biles, the

first gymnast up for the US, scored 14.8. Rebeca Andrade for Brazil. The

roof is going to come off here. Samba time! It looks like she's not

happy with the start of her music. Maybe they have played the wrong

music? Maybe they didn't show the start. She wisely steps off the

floor. That can be so nerve wracking as a gymnast. You've got yourself

all hyped up and then the wrong music comes on. Then you are like,

what do I do? Do I come off, get back on? I did see the floor judges

almost say to her, step back, let the music people sort out the music.

She can be present and come back on. OK, DJ, will ready. Good luck! I

don't think she heard the start. Rebeca Andrade, the highest

qualifier for Brazil. Full twisting double back. Doesn't need a long

run. Superpowerful gymnast. Lovely twisting into the front somersault.

This is what you call selling a routine. But she dropped the leg

down early at one and a half spins. She won't get the double.

Very cleverly using a style of her own. A super double tuck.

Needs to finish with a difficult tumble. The double pike, and that is

very much the problem with having given such a full on performance in

the dance. You don't just leave yourself enough energy for that

final tumble. Well, it was wonderful and vastly entertaining to watch.

Great to dance to, we had a little boogie! Brazil in seventh going into

this rotation. Simone Biles is the first up on bars. Gabby Douglas, her

score is just in. This is Seda Tutkhalyan Anbar for Russia.

Tutkhalyan was very much their best beam worker in qualification. Nice

round off already. This is the big skill. The full twist, well

negotiated. Steadily done. Shap, Leap with the head taken back.

I'd be surprised if the judges fully credit that. It was a bit edgy.

Big wait here ready for a big dismount. Double pike. Nice and

firm. In qualification she did a full twisting double back there. She

cut back a bit for safety. Russia on a score of 27. 991. We'll bring you

Mustafina's beam routine shortly. You can see the round-off straight

back. She does sometimes use the full twist. There's the change leg

into the change leg half. Splits not quite and there you can see the

round-off full twist. Covered that wobble well. Then using the double

pike, having had that fall on the first routine, they've played safe

and gone for the double pike. You can see her quickly getting

strapped up. They're the last team up. Disappointing 12. 966. USA just

getting ready for beam, going through the motions, getting warmed

up. It's time to have another little samba.

She's wonderful. She is and this routine has been specially composed

for her just for this Olympic Games. Expect something special. Hopefully

the DJ gets the music right because apparently a pop star has recorded

this just for her. Enjoy. She might be very sparkly and

twirling hands but also very classy. Lovely height on the tumble. Super

extension through the legs an the feet.

Well, the crowd love it. She kept enough energy for the finish. What a

super little gymnast. Just a joy to watch for all of the world, but

certainly for everybody here, 12,000 people packed into the Olympic Arena

here just loving this team final. What a joy it is to have the home

team in it. It was the same yesterday with the men. Goodness me

they put on a great performance. Just wonderful. Full of energy, full

of joy. And just enjoying. She's only 16 years of age. To come out

into this team final and just handle that pressure, going up last on

beam. Going up last on floor and producing huge tumbles. You can see

just here, the full in back out, just a tiny hop back. Very minimal.

Then the last, even though she'd put all that energy into the artistry,

she had enough energy to do that big double tuck for the ending. The

crowd here are loving her. I just want to say that we are not in

control of the pictures here. 88. 923 gives Russia an interesting

score on beam. This is Mustafina, who followed the first gymnast,

Melnikova after a fall. Current European champion and was world

champion a couple of years ago. She was. She had an absolutely terrible

time in qualification. She won't contest beam in the final, but that

was a super double spin. A nice controlled opening length. One of

the big things gymnasts have to include is acrobatic series, as well

as jump series. That was a good change leg with a half turn. She

hits splits effortlessly. Happen turning flip into the free

cartwheel. She's got now her two acrobatic elements joined. Going for

a second one. Free walkovers into the flip. When it's going well for

Mustafina she's beautiful. Soft, light, all the Russian gymnasts got

a real classical training. Lovely arms. Full extension. She's pausing

a bit here ready for the dismount. It's gone well. So has the dismount.

Super high, double tuck. This is Madison Kocian, another gymnast that

shared the world gold on bars. We've got three of them here in the team

final. Kocian to build that score. A very stylish gymnast on this piece,

from the. That's into the Shap, into the Pak. Up to the high bar. All

these top bar workers are linking every single element. Coach just

stepping in for the Jaeger salto, so high above the bar. Plenty of time

to spot it. Into the full turn. Straight into the dismount. No

movement on that landing. Well, that's how she made the hugely

competitive team. We talked about the competition to get onto the

Great Britain team. But I mean the Americans, it's another level. Oh,

yes, it's really very tough. They've left gymnasts behind who would be

top scorers in any of the other teams. She's a very strong bar

worker. She's been able to produce that again and again. We see the

British team march round there to the floor, ready for their warm-up.

Well, Russia will be the first to go in that group. Russia and Great

Britain going round together. They're on floor. The USA and China

over on beam. We've got Brazil and Germany who move to vault. And Japan

and the Netherlands on bars. Halfway round for Great Britain and this is

how things look: Just doing the sums here, Russia

just over two marks ahead of Great Britain. Then China are

two-and-a-half marks up and Japan are half a mark up. Japan have got

to go to bars and beam, which tend to be the harder pieces to score or

the pieces that can you fall more on. Whereas Great Britain have got

floor and vault left. They are two very strong pieces of apparatus.

Like we said earlier on, we're not in control of the pictures here.

We're trying to do everything we can to show you the important routines.

That's why we're watching Mustafina again. We're trying to play in what

we can. We have an international feed. It's complicated to say the

least. It is. But as she did such a good performance, I'm sure all those

gymnastic lovers will be more than happy. Mustafina's probably one of

the world's most popular gymnasts. She was a great junior. Had a very

nasty injury in 2011, knee operation. Came back at 2012,

probably not quite as good as she was before the injury. Still had a

great championships in 2012 and thrilled to see her back here.

That's confirmation of the score. Good, high score. Again, you can see

Japan in the fourth place. As Beth was saying, I guess that's why

gymnastics is the way it is, you have all the different pieces of

apparatus that test the body. For some countries, certain pieces suit

others. Japan's weakest pieces to come. It's interesting going round

with Russia. We're doing the same piece as them at the same time. It's

a very comparable score with Russia. Russia struggled on floor in

qualification. It will be interesting to see how they fare in

this team final. The tentative beam awaits Team USA. This is Alexandra

Raisman, current Olympic bronze medallist on beam. Tentative is not

a word I would ever use to describe the American team. They take this

piece of apparatus and own it. With that first front somersault, not a

flicker. That could have easily been a big wobble. But her confidence

ensured it was only a small wobble. Have to do acrobatic and spins and

leaps. You need to be fluent, not too many pauses. The American girls

do usually work with good rhythm. Another acrobatic skill, free

cartwheel. Now that is the most tentative element we've seen her do

yet. The leap with the half turn. Very nice front somersault. My

criticism would be that when she does her jumps and leaps she doesn't

always hit a split position. The judges will have little deductions

for that. Certainly won't have many deductions for wobbles. Of course,

like all great gymnasts, she's got a fantastic dismount. Quite an amazing

dismount, double Arabian, round off half turn into double front and

makes it just look like she's doing a jump off the end. How do they do

it? I mean, the mind boggles. Simone Biles will be up shortly. Hopefully

we will get a chance to see her. For now, we will join Teramoto from

Japan. Japan in fourth at the moment. The stoop with the full turn

into the Gienger, between the bars. Stoop with the half turn, straight

into the front somersault. Really clean catch, straight arms. Using

the stoop element a lot. Straight down to the low bar. Up to the high

bar. Just got one big task to finish this routine, the wind up, into the

dismount. Using the back in full and coach very pleased with that

routine. One of the more experienced

gymnasts. Competed in London. Second Olympics. Yes, quite an efficient

routine, nothing sparkly and exciting, but very clean, very

efficient. I would describe her gymnastics like that, she has a rip

on her hand I think. Yeah. Wants to show all her team-mates. I got that

in Rio! That's right. And I didn't jump off the bar. There's the huge

Gienger between the low bars and the big Jaeger salto. She's looking for

the bar the whole time, where she's placing her hands. It will be

interesting to know where did she get that rip, which part of the

routine. You can't see it there yet. Oh,

lovely, she's just ripped the skin off and put it on the floor.

Rebeca Andrade for Brazil. Hopefully she'll have more luck than

on floor. You Yurchenko entry into the two-and-a-half and a huge vault.

Considering she had a major injury just over a year ago, they've done

so well to get her back fit and completing the Yurchenko

two-and-a-half. Tutkhalian awaits the judges. The sparkle this young

gymnast has has fed into the senior Russian team. She's qualified fourth

for the all-round final in a few days' time. A 5. 8 difficulty. She's

not holding back on this piece. She's a bouncy little gymnast. This

is a power-packed routine. Starts with a double straight. Very nice

landing. Two whips, double pike, oh, big step

back there, though. It's been clean, expressive dance.

Two very nice twisting elements. And little bit of lack of control at

the end of that spin. Full of energy. Oh, a little rebound

on that landing as well. Not completely clean, the landings. Some

little deductions that you take from the execution score. But a lively

performance. As a team, Russia are European champions. They took the

silver at the last Olympics. This is going to be a very, very interesting

competition. The third piece of apparatus, the third of four. Great

Britain will be next to go on floor. Aly Raisman scores 15, that puts the

team total to 108.356. 14.866 four Japan, who were for. Things changing

around all the time. A nice double straight, although actually in slow

motion you can see the slightly loose likes. Here are the two whip

somersaults. Into the flick and the double pike. Just buckled slightly

on the take off and hold it in knowing that. That has caused the

over rotation. Using the double tuck for the last tumble. Like crisps

and, not entirely perfection throughout the whole routine. --

like Chris Budd. Rebeca Andrade scores 15.4 for

Brazil. 13.766 four Seda Tutkhalyan. Mustafina is next

to go, the current Olympic bronze medallist. You have two be really

very clean on floor to go into the 14s. It's a hard piece to score one,

really. Mustafina hosted a 5.7 in

qualification. Her experience counts for a lot in 18 final. -- in a team

final. She has been lost up, trying to keep calm, trying to keep the

team is composed as possible. They need her now.

That is an important element, the spin. Held the leg beautifully. Full

twisting double back. Enjoy this beautiful dance work.

Such a beautiful shoulder line. Like a ballerina. She has used the ballet

work, the spins. Two somersaults, beautiful landing. This time she

makes the triple spin. She comes up for this big double

tuck dismount. A real classy, classical routine. Not as difficult

as many we will see, but one of the most beautiful. One more piece to go

for Russia. There's a real chase on for that silver medal position with

China. But out in gold medal position at the team USA. Just

prepare to be amazed, how does this gymnast do that? Goodness me. It is

very tough, she is so strong in the likes. To spin in a squat position

is very hard. She is also dynamic and determined. A front somersault

with half term. -- half turn. As soon as she has finished one

element, she is off to the next. No long pauses. It could have easily

come off, but she wasn't going to. She had made her mind up before she

started. Just the slightest hesitation between the front

somersault. If you can persuade the gymnast to keep the rhythm like

this, in many ways it helps. The longer you stand around, the more

the nerves get to you. Very nicely done, that series.

The free walkover. Everything is choreographed. The arms are the same

every time. Enjoy this! Full twisting double back. Super

dismount. She was nervous I think. That's the most I've seen her have

to fight, you can see. That was shaky for Simone Biles. The mind

boggles. Her training regime, the rats that she does in order to be

that confident. And yet, it was shaky for her. It was, she had to

fight. 130.955 for Russia at the moment. That is a good score because

she only had a low difficulty. But then she did perform and

beautifully. Just a little pause to wait for the score to come around.

She's made every single final possible, Simone Biles. Her score is

15.3 on beam. Simone says, I'll have that, and put all of the experience

down to knowing how that beam feels for the all-round final which will

be in a few days' time. Just look across the board, 46, 46, 45.

But this is what it's all about. Russia, China, Japan, Great Britain.

All going to be in the mix when it comes to the final piece of

apparatus. It's interesting now, China are over on beam. They're very

renowned for this piece. As we've seen, they can have errors on it.

Great Britain are on floor which is a very dynamic piece for us. Germany

are over on vault and the Netherlands are on bars. Of course,

Germany, their real strong piece is bars. They've still got that to

come. Interestingly, as far as the Chinese gymnasts are concerned, they

have Shang Chunsong who is 20 years old. She is the most experienced in

the team. But there two 16-year-olds as well. As the pressure builds,

they have been more tentative peace is still to come. You have to ask

yourself the question, how will they cope at this level? This is the

Olympic final and you have two 16-year-olds. Can they cope? I'm

sure they will. Great Britain also has a 16-year-old on the floor as

well. I actually think sometimes the youngsters come in wide-eyed and

excited. Sometimes it's actually a bit easier being young, particularly

when you've been to one Olympics and loved it. You really want to get

back and do another Olympics. Sometimes you can be a bit desperate

about it. Where is the youngsters just go with it. I'm sure lots of

you, if you are staying up late, will be inspired. You can get

involved by going to the website at the bottom of the screen. Perhaps we

should give a mention to Sean O'Neill. Do you remember that

picture we saw this morning? He thought he was a British gymnast,

had a swing on the post but ended up with a few stitches. If you will get

inspired, do be careful! So, China's bid on beam begins with Wang Yan,

the first of the 16-year-olds. Who, I have to say, did impress me in the

qualification day. Super high hike front somersault. -- Pike front

somersault. But she wouldn't get those two jumps linked. They're

quite low, actually. In direct contrast to the Americans. We've had

a long wait on the end. But a very nice straight back somersault. The

judges do deduct a bit for these long wait. But they deduct more if

you fall off. So if gymnasts have a choice, they go for that. Strong

free walkover. Nicely performed. They have to do at least eight

moves, five of them acrobatic. Three of them should be leaked or spins.

-- leaps or spins. They add up to give you a difficulty score. It

might have been a bit static, but it hasn't been wobbly. She hasn't

fallen. She has a super triple twist dismount. They will be happy with

that. Wang Yan is through. Her job is through. She was in the world

final and she fell at there. Just correcting a little wobbly. There

you saw the two leaps but did join. Each gymnast hast you have two leaps

that join. Or a leap and a spin. You have to have two dance element and

two acrobatic elements linked. Just a reminder that China wherein second

going into this rotation. Russia not far behind. Japan in fourth, Great

Britain with this. -- Great Britain worth it. Gymnasts keeping warm and

keeping their heads down. Quite a lot don't like to watch the

performer before them. They like to go into the zone. R B Douglas. The

only piece she is working today are the bars. -- Gabby Douglas. Russia

put in an appeal on Mustafina's floor score but it has been

rejected. There will be no change to the floor score. Just a little more

warm up going on for China as far as beam is concerned. We will go across

to vault now. Germany with a 5.4 difficulty. Using the handspring

entry. Straight shape with the half-tone and a good clean landing.

The first Olympic Games or Pauline Schafer. This was their weakest

piece as far as qualification was concerned. A relatively simple

vault, but she performs it very nicely. Lovely straight body. Hands,

and create new twist. Very nicely done. -- Hans come up and create the

twist. Let's joy in Ellie Downie from Great Britain on floor. Great

Britain in fifth as it stands. -- let's join.

LA has had an up and down time here on floor. A bit of an injury in

qualification. She will be very keen to put that behind her. One and a

half twists. A smooth walk out into double Arabian. What a beautiful

landing. This is a second very big tumble

that she struggled a little bit with. Double pike to Arabian. No

trouble today. Now she's done two somersaulting

tumbles. Here a twisting tumble. One big tumble to go. Go, Ellie! All

that power. Double pike. Lovely landing.

Great performance from Ellie. Putting all the demons to rest.

Really super floor performance. I mean, it really is her style to pack

in the difficulty, go all out. We'll have to see if she stepped out of

the floor. We'll see as far as the scores are concerned. But that

follows a 14. 466 from Amy Tinkler. Wow. You were saying, Chris, about

how hard it is to get the floor score over 14. Amy Tinkler, 14. 466.

Germany on 14. 266. Tinkler, of course, qualified for floor final.

You can see here one-and-a-half walkout. Looking for that corner

into the round-off flip, double Arabian and spots that landing.

She's so spatially aware. She is. Here's the double pike Arabian.

We're not sure, this is the tumble we were checking. That looks in.

That looks in. This is the tumble that she came to grief on in the

qualification. The clean double pike at the end. We're not sure if the

flag was actually raised before she did one of her tumbles. We will see

for the score to come out whether they've given her a penalty or not.

It looks like Ruby might be telling her. You stepped out before you

went. A clean flag waver for some reason. I don't know what's going

on. The difficulty score card is out so the British team can check and

make sure that everything is in order. A tentative wait for Ellie.

Can you see sister Becky at the moment saying you just relax. I'll

take control. Becky's finished now. She's done her two pieces. She can

play the mother hen. The only gymnast in the team that's been to

an Olympics before. Talking about that, we've only got 11 gymnasts in

this whole qualification that have been to the Olympics before. There's

a lot of new, young faces coming out. This is one of them, because

Simone Biles, as wonderful as she is, she wasn't old enough to compete

in London 2012. She made her senior debut shortly after that. She has

taken over the world. 0. 1 penalty. Big sister not happy. She's off to

go and put in an inquiry. The inquiry actually has to be put in by

the head of delegation. The gymnasts themselves can't decide, "Oh, I

don't like that score." We're watching the two teams here that are

finished. We're about to go to the beam.

The last gymnast to go from their three. They're on a 29. 532 at the

moment. 6. 4 difficulty in qualification. She's going all out.

She is. China are very good on beam. They're always very technically

correct. Lovely, straight somersault. They've nearly all

performed that. Two jumps afterwards. On a really good day she

would probably join the straight somersault to the two jumps. Head

beautifully back on those two jumps. Very supple gymnast, as you can see.

Leaping to free walkover. Leap in to the side somme. I've been

impressed with the Chinese. They definitely define good leaps into

good acrobatics. Change leg into free cartwheel.

She really hasn't put a foot wrong so far. They've all favoured the

triple twist dismount. That was beautifully performed. Great

routines from China. China in second at the moment. I'm sure that is

where they will stay. This is Amy Tinkler for Great Britain. She was

first up. She's in the floor final. Good start. Spin into a jump. Very

enjoyable routine. Watch this big, first tumble. Double straight

somersault with a full twist. We've already had one huge tumble, here

comes another. Double twisting, double tuck, chest down a bit on

landing. Good leaps. She's one of the

youngest gymnasts in the competition. One-and-a-half walkout

into double tuck. Super landing there. Really packed the difficulty

in. Upone final big tumble to go. Have to finish with at least a D,

she does, double pike, no trouble at all.

Great stuff, can you see why she made the floor final. Absolutely.

And achieved a 14. 666 for Great Britain. So she started off the last

gymnast to go for Great Britain is Claudia Fragapane. Here we go with

the Commonwealth champion. Great on beam. What can she do here

on floor? Well she's got the most amazing

difficulty in this routine. Double straight with a twist. And a jump at

the end of it. If you can jump out of these tumbles, then you get a

little bit more. This is a really difficult second tumble, double

piked Arabian, super high. A big step out. Not sure if it was two

feet. If it is two feet, it's 0. 3 deduction. Recovers herself, well

into the next series of jumps. You need enormous fitness for this

nonstop tempo routine. Selling the routine. Very big tumble, triple

twist, that was clean. Into the jump. Very nice control in the

double spin. She's very ambitious with this last tumble. Most people

only manage to start with this. It's a double straight and she's managed

to finish with it. Well that was a great routine. But you saw the flag

just lifted there. What a shame. I mean that was just millimetres out

at the end. It looked to me like she's nailed that landing, but the

judges sit incredibly close to those corners. It was certainly a big

deduction with the step out on the previous tumble. You know, what it

just wasn't to be. She didn't hold back. She didn't hold back, that's

the main thing. No, and it wasn't a major fall over or anything. You can

see here, the very powerful back in full straight. Jumping into that

jump. There was a slight hop in between. They won't give that

connection. You can see the penalties there. Up on the

difficulty there 6. 4. What a shame. What a shame, we've given away 0. 5

out of the areas. I know the coaches will be very disappointed. They work

hard not to do that. Just a bit down on beam there. Not where they'd want

to be on floor. 129. 596 for the British team. Even now it's kind of

looking up to the scoreboard, a story of what could have been. Such

a tight fight this. China and Russia very much in contention. Japan as

well, which colour medal will they all end up? The great thing for

Russia and for Great Britain is they're heading over to the vault,

which is a high scoring piece for us, but also not so great for us,

it's a high scoring piece for Russia. She have a Yurchenko

two-and-a-half twist. We'll have to sit and wait it out.

Great Britain will go first up on vault. We will set the standard for

Russia going up second. China will go up first on floor with the USA

finishing off the competition on floor. Which will be a great treat

for everybody really, the USA finishing on floor. You could see

the inquiry into the judges. China have taken the competition to USA,

at the moment. We're still waiting for the last score. The judges here

discussion about what they should be giving and shouldn't be giving.

Yilin Fan waiting for her score, wondering. Have they given a good

gap between Russia going into the final piece of apparatus? Great

Britain are using Claudia Fragapane, Amy Tinkler and Ellie Downie on our

final piece of apparatus. Ellie was superb in the qualification round.

She had a flight injury on floor and that punch front somersault. Stopped

her routine, she went out of the arena, then came back in and did two

vaults and she nailed them. She did. She is a really very, very good

vaulter. Her scores weren't quite as high as we would have expected had

she just gone to vault without any problem. But she showed just what a

gritty performer she is by being able to almost go in cold and two

big vaults. They are the same three that competed in the World

Championships team final where they vaulted like for the team medal as

well. All three of them know what it's like to be under that pressure.

We remember Ellie's vault there. The score is in. China will take that

and move on to the last pee piece of apparatus.

They are 2. 174 outside the medals at the moment, Great Britain.

Here's one of the Japanese bar routines, the stoop into the full

turn. Straight up to the high bar using the stoop position. Down to

the low bar. Very clean work so far. Change in direction to get back to

the high bar. The stoop with the half turn. Into the straight.

Straight into the Jaeger. Finishing off the dismount using the giant

into the back in full. Very pleased and her team-mates are also very

pleased with that routine. A huge score of a 15. This is a series of

moves that are being used by many of the gymnasts at the end of this

championships we will have a slight change to the judging system. This

is how things look: Great Britain are 2. 176 outside of

the medals. Is that too big an ask as far as vault is concerned? When

you look that Russia are also on the same piece of apparatus as us,

obviously, Japan are moving to beam, they could make errors over there.

It is a lot more difficult to score into the high 14s, low 15s. Russia

are two marks ahead of us. Unless they have some major mistakes,

unfortunately, I don't think we'll quite catch them. China didn't have

a very happy time at all on floor in qualification. You know, you only

need one gymnast to fall over twice, but you wouldn't really expect with

their experience to do that. Look at the height of that for Ellie. You

wouldn't have expected what happened to Great Britain as far as the flags

were concerned. No, you wouldn't. You never know. You vault your best

and wait and see. What we're saying is this still could go anywhere!

With one pee to go. That's the -- piece of apparatus to go. If they

have one gymnast who has major problems that could put them out of

medal contention. Having three up, three to count is a very, very tough

format for our gymnasts. We have actually over the years seen

one or two of the American gymnasts do that, particularly on floor. It

can be one of the things unexpectedly kicks back at you. I

would say the teams have been strong here today. Just like with the men,

the best teams have worked really well. Just a reminder, Netherlands

and Japan are on beam. Great Britain and Russia on vault, and Germany and

Brazil are on bars, third rotation, USA lead, China second, Japan third,

Russia fourth, Great Britain fifth. The first gymnast on floor for

China, just outside the medals at last year's worlds on floor.

Starts with a huge twisting somersault. Three and a half twists.

Into a lovely hike front somersault. The only question was was it three

and a half or three and a quarter? Now moves back for a second tumble.

One and a half walk out. This time into the triple twist. Very clever

use of the judging system. That was a very nice spin.

Two and a half with a half turn. Nice supple body on the jumps.

Rather unusual music. Difficult to interpret. Well-controlled double

pike. She needed that double somersault. No twisting elements

until then, but that was cleanly through. China looking very, very

good in this silver medal position. Interestingly, China have never won

a silver medal at the Olympic team final. They do have a gold and a

bronze. The last medal was Beijing. Amy Tinkler now for Great Britain.

The second vaulter after cloudier scored 14.7. In the top corner she

has posted a 5.8. She powers down, a double twist and a great landing.

Not much to deduct from there. That was as good a vault as any we've

seen with a double twist. You can see here that twisting three and a

half was into three and a quarter, but with the code the way it is if

you've not quite finished but still punch than they still give you the

credit. Then the one and a half into the triple twist and immediately

punches the. This gymnast really knows how to use this code. She

chooses to wear the Sox to help complete the spins. That was five, I

think. Then the two and a half twist into the punch half. All three first

tumbles using the twisting, and then hast to show a double twist

somersault right at the end of the routine because it's a special

requirement. Then finish it off. And says, "That is my job done!" Very

much so. She was an impressive in training, but both days of the

competition she has got herself together. There will be people who

will feel they are not impressed to see the three and a quarter twist

and then punch out of it to disguise it and use the loophole in the

judging system. Well, we said it is difficult to get

a score over 14. A 14.933 four Amy Tinkler! That will send Ellie Downie

with quite a bit of spring to the end of the vault runway. She has

been reliable in the past on vault. 14.7, a big score for China. Very

big. Nothing like they scored in qualification. We did feel they were

a little hard done by in qualification. Next up for China is

a floor finalist. This is Wang Yan. A hugely difficult routine, this.

6.3. Look out for the connections and the little punches, the extra

moves on the end of the big tumbles. This gymnast does have some big

tumbles. Double twisting, double tuck. Very nicely controlled.

To show she can do the multiple twists as well, one half full card.

Lovely and smooth. Over this last four years we've seen

the Chinese gymnasts struggle with the new floors, struggled with

tumbling. But this young lady has really found the key. A lovely

double pike to finish with a super landing. That was a masterclass. It

was a masterclass as far as floor is concerned. We were talking about the

level of gymnastics and how far it's gone over the years, well, I'm sure

and I hope you're enjoying what we think is probably the finest display

of International gymnastics that we have ever seen. This team from China

are greatly improved. They've taken on board the pieces they've

struggled with. A whole new young team. They're really coming out

fighting. When you think about Great Britain now on 174.362, which

suggests that Ellie had a very good volt battery -- very good vault

Indy. We will do our best to bring you that vault shortly. She left

enough energy for great tumbling on the floor as well. That's the triple

twist. So clever, because if your chest is down you can still on tuck.

This one was impressive. Double twist, double tuck, chest up.

Heidi, light. Committed to the landing. -- High, light. The

expression as well. It's all there. I saw Ellie's vault and it was

unbelievable, absolutely nailed the landing. We will take that. It was a

score of 15.133 four Ellie on bolts. We hope to bring you that so you can

see the unbelievable vault very soon. 14.733 four Wang Yan from

China. They are really building strongly on floor. Mao Yi will be

the last gymnast, another 16-year-old, in this floor final for

China. She did fall in qualification and she only scored 11.7. No doubt

she will have been in the training gym to put everything right. She

will have been. The coaches will have spent a bit of time. A lot of

coaches were struggling with the floor qualification. It was giving

quite a kick back and many were struggling to find the landing. That

was one. Three and a half twists, punch front straight out of the

floor area. She really needs to settle down. They can't afford

another 11. One and a half twists into the triple twist. That was

better. She needs to focus, make sure this

tumble works as well. Two and a half, punch front hop. That was much

better. Controlled the speed of the run.

Rather simple leaps, those. She will need difficult leaps as well as

difficult tumbles to build difficulty. Focus well. Good double

tuck, but her feet nearly fell away from home again. Well, Russia will

have been watching that very, very closely. This is going to be tight.

I was quickly trying to do the maths in my head and it looks like she

needs a 10.992 to go ahead of Great Britain. She will do that, but here

you can see that first tumble, the three and a half. She struggled with

it in qualification. Totally out of the floor. But picked herself back

up. The one and a half walk out into the round off flick. And the lovely

triple twist. Yes, the Russians over on vault at the moment. They are

rotating around with Great Britain. They will have seen that and they

will know that there is a chance for silver. And then the two and a half

twists. This is what makes this format so great because as every

score has to count, you can almost, we were counting it home and dry for

China. But one person having an absolute nightmare like that, she

could have put those hands down a there. The last time China got a

bronze was in 1984. The total for Germany, 173.672. Just waiting here.

A shame, really, because the team from China have been very strong.

Much improved. But it's always been there, systems the little bit that

has been suspect. The Sox often don't help with a blind landing.

With a blind landing, you may just slip. Unless there is lots and lots

of short on the floor, they will just slip. I don't think that's what

happened on that first tumble! Her chest was so far in front of her

feet when she landed the three and a half. She just bounded out. We're

just waiting for a score from China and also a score from Sanne Wevers

from the Netherlands team on beam. Then it will move into the second

half of this rotation. We have been talking about the Downie sisters.

Lieke and Sanne Wevers on the Netherlands are actually twins.

Quite a moment for their dad, who is also their coach. He's down on the

floor with them as well. A very special moment for their family. You

can see the Americans waiting to get up on floor. Gaby and Madison would

be working on the floor, so there stood waiting to cheer their team

on. It's a long wait for this score to come through.

The judges are really taking a very long time over this floor score.

They will have a lot to talk about because I suspect they will be

wondering whether they actually credit the move. As she didn't

completely somersault, she got her feet down first, but it is a fall.

Both feet right out. I'm surprised they got quite as much as that. I

wonder if the judges will be tired by the time the news starts. --

judges will decide by the time the news starts. That will be coming

very shortly and we will be switching over to BBC Two. We will

just keep waiting. It's in, it's 12.633. That gives them a total of

176. Russia with it all to do if they won the silver medal.

176 is the score for China of the teams already finished, that put

them in the lead. Four more teams to go. The second half of each

rotation, USA were in the lead at the end of round three. You've got

the picture here of Simone Biles waiting to warm up. Well, Russia

need an average of 14.469 and Japan need an average of 14.196 two medal.

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