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Despite the obvious discomfort, Biles didn’t hold back on the vault. First she did Biles II with a great score of 15.800 and then Cheng with 14.800. His average was 15.300. Thinking about a possible final, it’s a achievable result for Rebecca, as long as she can match Andrade. Without the new vault, only a practically perfect and unlikely performance by Cheng and Amanar would reach that note.

In the uneven bars, the favorite for the gold medal is Kaylia Nemour, from Algeria, a gymnast born and trained in France but who recently changed her nationality. She performed much better than the others with 15,700. Quan Qiu, from China, another strong candidate for the podium, scored only 15,066 points.

On this apparatus, Simone Biles scored just 14.433 points, leaving her in eighth place and likely out of the final. For Rebecca, a score of 14.700 should be enough to move her into the women’s final. Anything less is a risk.

Among the teams Brazil also dreams of a medal in, the United States leads with 172.296 points, but two other teams have come close to Brazil’s potential in the final in two days. China came in with 166.866, and Italy with 166.628. Brazil earned 165.530 points to win the silver medal at last year’s World Cup.

On the individual all-around, the Brazilian technical committee expects Rebecca to score around 58 points. Only Simone Biles has (well) done better: 59.566. But Sunisa Lee (56.132), Jordan Chiles (56.065), Caelia Nemours (55.966) and Italy’s Manila Esposito (55.898) have surged to the top of the pack in the fight for the bronze medal, which is also Flavia Saraiva’s dream. With the maximum number of athletes per nation, only Chile or Lee will be able to join Biles in the final in four days. Chile, of course, has priority.