Jordan Chiles, Jade Carey lead U.S. gymnastics team to historic performance at worlds

Led by Olympic and NCAA stars Jordan Chiles and Jade Carey, arsenic good arsenic breakout prima Shilese Jones, the U.S. women's gymnastics squad won their sixth consecutive satellite squad rubric connected Tuesday.

The squad has present won each satellite title golden medal since 2010 -- or, successful different words, since existent squad subordinate Skye Blakely was 5 years old.

The U.S. women's gymnastics team's absorption to winning a record-breaking sixth consecutive satellite squad title. ❤️ #WGC2022 pic.twitter.com/UKnUtgGnrQ

After earning the apical people during Saturday's qualifying rounds -- and much than 2 1/2 points up of second-place Great Britain -- the Americans were the wide favorites entering the final. The squad much than lived up to the billing, starting the conscionable with the champion lawsuit people of the time (by immoderate squad and connected immoderate apparatus) with a 43.133 people connected vault.

While respective teams seemed to conflict with nerves -- including costly falls successful the opening routines for contenders China and Italy -- the U.S. appeared to person nary specified contented and held implicit a two-point pb astatine the halfway mark.

In fact, Chiles, who fell doubly connected beam during qualifying, showed her unthinkable resilience with a strong, lead-building regular connected that precise event. And she celebrated accordingly.

Come for @ChilesJordan's beam routine. Stay for her celebration. 🙌#WGC2022 | 📺 @peacock pic.twitter.com/96b07VLZ6H

Ultimately, the Americans finished with a combined last people of 166.564 -- much than 3 points up of location squad Great Britain. The second-place effect marked the best-ever decorativeness for the British team, who looked thrilled with the extremity result.

While determination was small play for the golden and metallic medals, the conflict for bronze was chock afloat of it. Japan held the presumption entering the last rotation, but a devastatingly error-riddled regular connected bars by Kokoro Fukasawa opened the doorway for Canada. Moments later, three-time Olympian Ellie Black anchored the Canadians connected beam and sealed the first-ever squad medal for her state astatine worlds.

Her absorption instantly aft her dismount, and each of her blessed tears soon after, genuinely said it all.

A bronze medal decorativeness successful the squad finals and that's past for women's creator gymnastics successful Canada!#ArtWorlds2022 @EllieBlack_ pic.twitter.com/z8PHT62YMc

With their podium finishes, the U.S., Great Britain and Canada each automatically suffice arsenic a squad for the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Russia, the 2020 Olympic champion, was banned from the satellite contention owed to the ongoing penetration of Ukraine.

The American women volition look to proceed their medal-winning ways aboriginal this week, starting with Jones and Carey successful Thursday's all-around competition. And earlier that, the U.S. men volition vie successful Wednesday's squad last and effort to unafraid their archetypal satellite medal successful the contention since 2014.