along with her fellow final five team members. friday, august 12th, 2016. this has been her destiny all along. one more time for the ages. from nbc news, this is a special edition of today at the olympic games. with matt lauer, lo i have from rio de janeiro, brazil, and savannah guthrie live from rockefeller plaza. and good morning, everyone, welcome to a special split edition of today, rio and new york, the games of the 31st olympiad and as you can see behind us it s dark and rainy and windy on copacabana beach, but it doesn t matter because yesterday was bright and cheery and fantastic for team u.s.a. it was crazy as we talked about simone manuel first african-american woman to win gold. i have a feeling in individual swimming i have a feeling if we mark our calendars in about nine months there will be a lot of sinones named as babies. simone biles turned in one of the most impressive performances ever to win gold in the women s all around. right on her heel
2016. the u.s. women win gold in the 4x2. that was beautiful. that s a gold medal for kirsten armstrong. announcer: this is a special edition of today at the olympic games with matt lauer live from rio de janeiro, brazil, and savannah guthrie live from rockefeller plaza. good morning, everyone. welcome to a special split edition of today. i m matt lauer along with hoda kotb. savannah is in new york. we refuse to do a show without medal winners. look at who we have today. that is alison schmidt part of that gold medal relay team in the 4x200 free and josh pernot is alongside her. michael hickson and sam do dorman took silver in synchronized diving and we ll ask what it is like to compete in what is a big story here. the green water in the pool. it s so much fun to watch athletes and the crowd get to hang out a little bit. by the way, their parents are all hanging out over here taking pictures of them. by the way, you know who else is joining us on the beach t
all-around and aly raisman takes silver. they re with us today, friday, august 12th, 2016. harrison wins gold again! this has been her destiny all along. one more time for the ages. announcer: from nbc news, this is a special edition of today at the olympic games with matt lauer live from rio de janeiro, brazil, and savannah guthrie live from rockefeller plaza. good morning, everyone. welcome to a special split edition of today. rio and new york. the games of the 31st olympiad. dark and rainy and windy on copacabana beach. it doesn t matter because yesterday was bright and cheery and fantastic for team usa. crazy as we talked about simone manual first african-american woman to win gold. i have a feeling in individual swimming if we mark our calendars in nine months there will be a lot of simone being named. no question about it. it s been a big olympics for simons. another simone found success. simone biles turned in one of the most impressive performances
we re celebrating with all of them today wednesday, august 10, 2016. wonder woman is right there in the pool. we ve got her in rio. get the gold medals ready again. no way anybody is going to catch michael phelps tonight. announcer: from nbc news this is a special edition of today lauer live from rio de janeiro, brazil and savannah guthrie live from rockefeller plaza. good morning. welcome to a special split edition of today from rio and new york on a wednesday morning. let me say thanks to the folks behind us because it is windy, wet and nasty here in rio this morning. have been so many gold medals won in day four. seven medals, four gold led by u.s. women. we had so much fun with them after we caught up with them after a big win. that interview just ahead. you were there for the competition and got to watch it. it was conor dwyer and townley haas are with us. stunning upset in tennis. serena williams is out. we will have all the olympic news in a moment.
still invincible, usain bolt. the fastest man alive, usain bolt makes history on the track. and golden girl simone biles does what no american woman has done before. and there it is. winning the first ever u.s. gold medal in the vault. three golds so far for the world s greatest gymnast. now the final five telling amy all about their show-stopping performance. we re live in rio for the history-making action at the olympics. we are the final five. good morning, america. we do say good morning, america and it is great to have amy back home. thank you. it s good to be back. simone biles again, winning her third gold medal. i sat down with them and they are just so ready to do this. they have been preparing for this moment from the very beginning and they re excited. they re not nervous. they re excited. amy, as you told us she was already being called the greatest ever even before the olympics got started and has proven why now and still has two more event as