Louis Smith MBE
Medal winning gymnast in three Olympic Games on BBC Radio 5 Live

Simone Biles is off!

Biles, the somewhat invincible gymnast we have seen, has fallen off the beam.

Apart from the fall it was fairly spotless, we have seen a chink in the armour of Biles.

Biles falls from beampublished at 12:15 British Summer Time 5 August

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A shocker!

Gasps echo all around the Bercy Arena as Simone Biles stumbles and falls after a double layout.

It was a positive and composed start, her spins and leaps went well and she landed the dismount.

Biles is unhappy about something, she is animated in discussion with her coach after striding off.

'At last someone's come through a beam routine'published at 12:15 British Summer Time 5 August

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Women's beam final

Craig Heap
Commonwealth Games gold-winning gymnast on BBC TV

At last someone’s come through a beam routine. And Alice D’Amato did it with such style. Very positive from the start.

One thing she is very good at, if you look at her feet, how she’s got really good extension. Again the judges will be really impressed with that.

Italy's D'Amato guaranteed a medalpublished at 12:14 British Summer Time 5 August

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Beam final

That's more like it!

Composure, skill and discipline from Italy's Alice D'Amato, the first gymnast to nail her routine. She stays remarkably calm to land every leap, tumble and the dismount amongst the chaos of everybody else's falls.

Huge celebrations from the Italian camp - she scores 14.366 to take the lead and with two gymnasts to go, she is guaranteed a medal!

What a moment. China's Zhou Yaqin goes down to second - and here is Simone Biles.

Narrow margins on 10cm beampublished at 12:10 British Summer Time 5 August

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Gymnastics - beam final

Sonia Oxley
BBC Sport in Paris

A reminder, Biles did not qualify top for this final. It's an apparatus she's won two bronzes on so not one she is necessarily as dominant in as, say, the floor where she will compete in the final later today. It's also an apparatus that is just 10cm wide so is notoriously tricky to navigate.

Falls aplenty in beam finalpublished at 12:09 British Summer Time 5 August

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At this point, all Simone Biles will need to do is just stay on!

All but two gymnasts have fallen, and even those two have had some nervy wobbles.

Romania's 17-year-old gymnast Sabrina Moneca-Voinea has two falls after going for some difficult tumbles. A big learning curve for her, scoring 11.733.

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A few of the headlines from this morning in Paris:

• Team GB win bronze in the triathlon mixed team relay as Beth Potter finishes narrowly behind the USA's Taylor Knibb and Laura Lindemann, who secured gold for Germany.
• Britain's Molly Caudery suffers a shock exit from qualification for the women's pole vault final.
• Team GB's Alastair Chalmers finishes third in his 400m hurdles heat to qualify for the semi-finals, while compatriot Jessie Knight comes second in the women's event to make it through her heat.

Here's what's coming up in the next few hours:

• The gymnastics is under way where there are four golds up for grabs with American superstar Simone Biles currently in action in the women's balance beam final and floor final later at 13:23 BST.
• Britons Ben Maher, Scott Brash and Harry Charles – fresh from winning a glorious team gold on Friday – start their quests for individual equestrian medals in the jumping qualifiers at 13:00 BST.
• At 14:30 BST the canoe slalom kayak cross quarter-finals start with Briton’s Kimberley Woods and Mallory Franklin in action in the women’s event and Joe Clarke competing in the men’s.

'If one falls, it rattles everybody'published at 12:04 British Summer Time 5 August

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Women's beam final

Christine Still
Gymnastics expert on BBC TV

It's amazing, if one gymnast falls, even though they're not connected to each other at all, it will rattle everybody.

Zhou keeps lead, Esposito secondpublished at 12:03 British Summer Time 5 August

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Beam final

It's a nervy final! Nobody has got through a routine unscathed yet.

There's disappointment for Brazil's Julia Soares, who also falls off the beam after a leap and scores 12.333 while Italy's 17-year-old gymnast Manila Esposito does manage to recover her routine after a big wobble.

Halfway through, and Esposito's 14.000 puts her into second place with Zhou Yaqin keeping the lead with 14.100.

Simone Biles will be the penultimate gymnast to perform out of eight, with Brazil's Rebeca Andrade going last.

Splitting the beampublished at 11:57 British Summer Time 5 August

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Gymnastics - beam final

Sonia Oxley
BBC Sport in Paris

Ouch, a timely reminder of what I was just saying about the tricky beam - American Sunisa Lee just split the beam - what gymnasts call it when they fall with one leg on either side of the beam - on her way off the apparatus. She gets back on but that will have hurt and her score of 13.100 is not likely to challenge for a medal.

That said, the next competitor, Julia Soares, has also just fallen off. It's a hard apparatus to watch as well as compete on.

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'Beam comes down to difficulty versus execution'published at 11:56 British Summer Time 5 August

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Women's beam final

Beth Tweddle
London 2012 bronze medallist on BBC TV

I had to go down to the gym, I had to go see Simone Biles live. No one can appreciate how high she goes, how fast she is, the skills she’s actually executing until you see it in person.

I’ve not seen her live in a while and I felt I had to get down to the arena and watch her composure. She is just a human being and the nerves that she has are just like any other gymnast. She’s trained herself to control most nerves. She has worked very closely with her coaches to make sure that the skills she is using are right for what she needs.

We do know she can do more difficulty. She is constantly performing lower than the level that she can actually do.

We do say about beam, who stays on gets the medals, and it comes down to the difficulty versus the execution.

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'Very surprised at that for Lee'published at 11:55 British Summer Time 5 August

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Women's beam final

Christine Still
Gymnastics expert on BBC TV

Sunisa Lee really did go for broke and it just didn’t quite work out. I am very surprised at that because she’s a very composed gymnast.

It was a strange one, because she did have both feet on. You only need to be a centimetre off line and you can't really recover from it.

Nasty fall for USA's Leepublished at 11:53 British Summer Time 5 August

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Women's beam final

Oh no!

Sunisa Lee goes all out for difficulty but pays the price with a really nasty fall. She keeps a smile on her face and there's hugs waiting for her from the coaching staff and Biles, but she'll lose a whole point for that.

Very uncharacteristic for such a quality gymnast. She's actually lucky to avoid serious injury there, her foot slipping sideways after a double layout and straddling the beam as she falls.

Lee is given a score of 13.100, so China's Zhou keeps the lead.

Zhou wobbles in first routinepublished at 11:50 British Summer Time 5 August

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Women's beam final

Huge shame for Zhou Yaqin of China, who has a big wobble after one of her leap sequences which results in her putting her hands on the beam for a big deduction.

She lands the hard tumbles and the dismount so she gets credit for the difficulty, ending up with 14.100. It's still a good score which could challenge for a medal, but significantly down on the 14.866 that she earned in qualifying.

Women's beam finalpublished at 11:47 British Summer Time 5 August

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This is going to be an amazing final.

China's Zhou Yaqin qualified in first place with the highest difficulty, USA's Sunisa Lee was all-around champion at Tokyo and claimed bronze on the uneven bars yesterday, Rebeca Andrade of Brazil has gone toe-to-toe with Biles throughout the Games and then, of course, there is Biles herself.

Strap yourselves in!

Biles going for more goldspublished at 11:46 British Summer Time 5 August

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Women's floor & beam finals

Biles' beam and floor routines are just stunning, you can't take your eyes off her once she gets going.

The height, the control, the bravery.

Here are the routines she performed in the all-around final on her way to gold.

Flags are out, noise is uppublished at 11:45 British Summer Time 5 August

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Gymnastics - beam final

Sonia Oxley
BBC Sport in Paris

The flags are out, the placards are out and the noise levels are deafening.

Simone Biles has entered the Bercy Arena for the penultimate time.

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Team GB's second eliminated pole vaulter Molly Caudery, speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live: "It's honestly heartbreaking.

"Not the experience I was hoping for and I am so sorry for everyone back home. I wish I could have done better, but I am going to try learn from this and I will take everything I can from it.

"I felt great, the best shape of my life. I didn't feel too nervous I love a big crowd. I don't know why, but it wasn't my day and I'll use this as an experience to learn from it and to try move on.

"Thank you to everyone for their support."

It has been a disappointing last hour or so for Team GB but there has been some good news in the women's 400m, with Amber Anning winning her heat to join team-mate Laviai Nielsen in the semi-finals. You can watch her heat below.

Victoria Ohuruogu finished fourth to go through to the repechage.

Rhasidat Adeleke showed why she is one of Ireland’s biggest medal hopes on the track by cruising through hereheat.

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Great Britain's Amber Anning already has a medal in the 4x400m mixed relay and now has hopes for the individual event after reaching the semi-finals.

She spoke to BBC local radio's Paris Grassroots to Glory series about her career.