“Beam final is always the most stressful,” she told reporters via NBC News. “But usually, we have like music or background noise, whatever that may be.”
According to the 27-year-old, the gymnasts “do better in environments when there’s noise going on because it feels most like practice.”
“It was really weird and awkward,” she continued, “and we’ve asked several times if we could have some music or some background noise. So I am not really sure what happened there, but yeah, not our favorite. None of us liked it. Yeah, it was an odd beam final.”
But not everyone had issues with the balance beam, as Team Italy’s Alice D’Amato took home the gold while Zhou Yaqin of China earned silver and Italian gymnast Manila Esposito walked away with bronze.
