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U.S. wins gold in women's gymnastics at Rio

RIO DE JANEIRO -- Just call them the Final Five. Dominant. Peerless. Golden.

The U.S. women's gymnastics team gave retiring national team coordinator Martha Karolyi a fitting send off in the Olympic finals on Tuesday night, putting on a two-hour display of precision and class. Their score of 184.897 was more than eight points points clear of silver medalist Russia, a blowout that Michael Jordan's "Dream Team" should envy.

The Americans' second straight Olympic team triumph -- and third overall -- was never in doubt. From the second Laurie Hernandez drilled her opening vault to Simone Biles' boundary-pushing floor exercise to end it, the U.