Olympics-Biles fails to qualify for bars at Tokyo Games

[ASFN Admin]

TOKYO (Reuters) -Simone Biles' shot at a record five gold medals at the Tokyo Olympics suffered a blow on Sunday when the U.S. gymnast failed to qualify for the final on the asymmetric bars. Already regarded as one of the sport's all-time greats, Biles arrived in Tokyo targeting a record haul, including the mark of five gold medals at a single Olympics by a woman gymnast. There will now be no room for error if Biles hopes to rewrite the record of four gold's at a single Olympics she shares with the former-Czech Republic's Vera Caslavska, Russia's Larisa Latynina and Hungary's Agnes Keleti.

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