Simone Biles fails to qualify for bars

TOKYO: Simone Biles' shot at a record five gold medals at the Tokyo Olympics suffered a blow on Sunday when the US 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.

That target became much harder to hit, however, when she was bumped from the eighth and last spot in the bars final by Germany's Elisabeth Seitz.

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. Agencies

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