How Team U.S.A. Won the Olympic Women’s Gymnastics Gold

The United States took the gold medal in the women’s gymnastics team final at the Paris Olympics on Tuesday, beginning with solid vaults from Simone Biles and Jade Carey and ending with a bringing-down-the-house routine by Biles on the floor exercise.

Photographs by Joe Ward; composite image by Weiyi Cai

A fall by Jordan Chiles while mounting the beam did not come close to stopping the United States from taking the top spot — particularly once Sunisa Lee followed Chiles on the beam with a spectacular performance that earned a score more than half a point higher than her qualifying routine. Chiles later put in her own exceptional performance on the floor.

Biles was on target from the first…