Olympics roundup: Americans denied gold for 1st time since 2008 Games

United States' Simone Biles stumbles during her performance on the balance beam during the artistic gymnastics women's apparatus final at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, Aug. 15, 2016. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)

By Associated Press August 16, 2016 4 min read

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RIO DE JANEIRO – The Americans were denied a gold medal Monday for the first time since the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and it took two big stumbles to keep the “Star Spangled Banner” on pause.

One of the slips cost U.S. gymnastics star Simone Biles gold on the balance beam. The other secured Shaunae Miller’s win in the women’s 400 meters over Allyson Felix, the U.S. star who missed out on her fifth Olympic gold medal.

Miller, of the Bahamas, crossed .07 seconds ahead of Felix thanks to a head-first dive that came after a downpour forced a delay in the evening events and sent spectators scurrying for shelter at Olympic Stadium.