process. it s been a long year. reporter: the team s hope of gold turned to silver. stephanie apstein covers gymnastics for sports illustrated. they were a little surprised by how different it would feel to get here and have no crowd energy to feed off and especially not to have the people they love in the stands. reporter: in another shocker, home country tennis star, naomi osaka, who lit the olympic cauldron after withdrawing from the french open in june because of her own mental health concerns, was knocked out in straight sets. meanwhile, the cloud of covid continued to hover, with more than 150 olympics related cases now. and tokyo recording its highest number of new infections since the pandemic began. yet, team u.s.a. pulled in second behind japan overall and is tied for first with china in the gold medal tally. carissa moore took home the first-ever gold medal in