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Emily Schild finishes off the night with a fairly low 13.800 on the floor exercise.
Gabby Douglas falls on a fairly simple skill and therefore scores an extremely low 13.700 to cap off a slightly disappointing night again.
Maggie Nichols finishes off an improved night to score a 14.800 on floor exercise.
Rachel Gowey scores a 14.200 on balance beam to finish off her night, a slightly disappointing performance.
Ragan Smith finishes off an incredibly adorable and impressive floor routine to score a 14.500 on floor exercise to rise her stock ahead of night two.
Amelia Hundley keeps up her solid night to score a 14.100 on balance beam.
Simone Biles keeps soaring her way to Rio putting up another incredible, high-flying floor routine to score an impressive 15.700 on floor exercise.
Brenna Dowell rounds out her night with a very good 14.550 on floor exercise.
Madison Kocian shows her consistency to score a very solid 14.700 on balance beam to increase her stock greatly.
Laurie Hernandez shows off her incredibly lively floor skills to score an amazing 15.300 on floor exercise.
Aly Raisman tops off an incredible night with a very good 14.800 on balance beam to all but lock up her spot on the Olympic team.
Christina Desidiero scores a very solid 14.800 to finish her first night of trials.
MyKayla Skinner concludes her night with a solid showing on balance beam scoring a 14.650.
Rachel Gowey scores an improved 14.900 on uneven bars.
Amelia Hundley scores a solid 14.700 on the uneven bars.
Maggie Nichols falls and struggles to only score a 13.700.
Ragan Smith scores a very impressive 14.900 on the balance beam to skyrocket her stock.
Simone Biles scores a slightly sub-par 15.200 on the balance beam.
Ashton Locklear falls and struggles on balance beam only scoring a 13.200 to finish her night.
Brenna Dowell scores a low 13.600 on balance beam.
Madison Kocian ties with her biggest competition Ashton Locklear also scoring a very good 15.750.
Laurie Hernandez rebounds on balance beam with a great 15.500.
Christina Desidiero scores a solid 14.400 on balance beam.
Aly Raisman improves her uneven bars to score a very good 14.450.
MyKayla Skinner scores a very solid 14.300 on the uneven bars.
Emily Schild's struggles continue with a poor 12.750 on balance beam to begin that apparatus for the night.
Gabby Douglas improves her uneven bars from last meet but deductions still high scoring a 15.100. improves her uneven bars from last meet but deductions still high scoring a 15.100.
Ragan Smith scores a fairly good 14.600 on uneven bars to keep her stock rising.
Ashton Locklear soars to an incredible 15.750 on uneven bars to showcase her incredible talent and consistency on bars.
Amelia Hundley scores a solid 14.950 on vault.
Simone Biles keeps soaring with a very solid 14.950 on uneven bars.
Madison Kocian scores a disappointing 13.900 on the vault.
Brenna Dowell scores a very good 14.900 on the uneven bars to increase her stock.
Aly Raisman puts up a very impressive 15.250 on vault with her incredible Amanar vault.
Laurie Hernandez struggles slightly on uneven bars but recovers to score a 14.900 on uneven bars.
Christina Desidiero scores a 13.500 on uneven bars.
Emily Schild scores a disappointing 13.900 on uneven bars.
MyKayla Skinner showcases her huge vaulting skills to score a 15.500.
Rachel Gowey scores a 14.400 on vault to rebound from a tough floor exercise.
Maggie Nichols improves on uneven bars scoring a solid 14.550.
Gabby Douglas begins the rotation on vault scoring an improved 15.100.
Madison Kocian scores an impressive 14.250 on floor exercise to begin her meet.
Aly Raisman showcases her beautiful prowess on floor exercise, scoring an incredibly high 15.450 to begin her meet.
On her second vault, a Chang, Simone Biles slightly not as impressive but still scores quite high.
Simone Biles soars to an incredible 16.000 on vault with a stellar Amanar with a slight hop on the landing.
MyKayla Skinner showcases a very impressive floor exercise but seems slightly underscored at a 14.800.
Brenna Dowell puts up a solid 14.850 on vault to begin her meet.
Laurie Hernandez scores an impressive 15.150 on her double-twisting Yurchenko on vault, the highest score of the night so far.
Christina Desidiero scores a slightly disappointing 14.300 on vault.
Impressive routine from Gabby Douglas but struggled on a double turn resulting in a 14.650 on floor exercise.
Rachel Gowey scores a very low 12.900 on floor exercise. Going to be tough for Gowey to recover.
Emily Schild scores a 14.950 on vault.
Amelia Hundley scores a 14.250 on floor exercise.
Maggie Nichols with a slightly less impressive Yurchenko double full but still scores a 15.100 to begin her meet.
Ragan Smith scores a 14.700 on vault to begin the meet.
In Squad D starting on floor exercise is Aly Raisman, Rachel Gowey, Amelia Hundley, Gabby Douglas, MyKayla Skinner, and Madison Kocian.
Squad A starting on vault is Ashton Locklear, Emily Schild, Brenna Dowell, Laurie Hernandez, Christina Desiderio, Maggie Nichols, Ragan Smith, and Simone Biles.
With a breakout 2016 and an incredible third place finish at the P&G Championships, Laurie Hernandez looks to be who Martha Karolyi will select for the team with Maggie Nichols looking still not fully recovered from knee surgery in April. Finally, the likely bars specialist spot looks like it will go to Madison Kocian over Ashton Locklear due to the reigning bars world champion's performance on the other three events compared to Locklear's one event.
With Biles arguably being the most dominant female athlete in all of sports, barring injury, there is no plausible way the three-time world all-around gold medalist is not heading to Rio. Aside from that, there are no for sure locks, but expect 2012 team and floor gold medalist Aly Raisman and reigning Olympic all-around champion Gabby Douglas to punch their tickets to Rio with consistent routines throughout here in San Jose.
While most of the athletes are very young, eight of the gymnasts in San Jose have world championship experience with Simone Biles, Ashton Locklear, Madison Kocian, and MyKayla Skinner bringing home a team gold medal from Nanning in 2014 and Biles, Gabby Douglas, Aly Raisman, Maggie Nichols, Madison Kocian, MyKayla Skinner, and Brenna Dowell winning in Glasgow in 2015.
Of the 14 gymnasts competing in San Jose, only three have past Olympic Trials experience and only two have Olympic experience. While many have competed in past world championships, only Brenna Dowell, Aly Raisman, and Gabby Douglas competed in the 2012 Olympic Trials and of those three only Douglas and Raisman competed in London.
Other notable finishes in Hartford came from reigning Olympic all-around champion Gabby Douglas who finished fourth, defending world bars gold medalist Madison Kocian who placed fifth, Ragan Smith who placed a disappointing eighth, and MyKayla Skinner who finished tenth.
For Biles, the heavy favorite for the all-around gold medal in Rio and three-time World All-Around Champion did not disappoint, dominated the field with incredibly consistent routines to win by over four points. While Raisman showed why she is a near-lock for the team, Hernandez captured national team coordinator Martha Karolyi's attention with an amazing performance to finish third.
At the national championships in St. Louis, it was four-time national champion Simone Biles who once again took the title at the P&G Women's Gymnastics Championships. Just behind the three-time world all-around champion was London 2012 floor and team gold medalist Aly Raisman and in third was Jesolo beam gold medalist Laurie Hernandez.
After four long years of blood, sweat, and tears, the Road to Rio has finally come down to San Jose for the U.S. Women's Gymnastics Olympic Trials. After one night of competition at the Secret US Classic in Hartford and two nights in St. Louis at the national championships, the P&G Women's Gymnastics Championships, the final chance for Olympic selection is here with one spot guaranteed to the all-around winner and four others chosen by the national team committee. The competition will be held Friday and Sunday night at the SAP Center in downtown San Jose.
Welcome to live coverage of night one of the U.S. Women's Gymnastics Olympic Trials! My name is Thomas Cluck, and I am happy to be bringing you live coverage of the U.S. Women's Gymnastics Olympic Trials here on VAVEL. From now until the competition begins at 5:30 pm PT, news and notes will be above to get you up to speed. Be sure to return at meet time for live updates from San Jose!