The US women's gymnastics team just obliterated the competition like never before to win a gold medal

The US women's gymnastics team made the team final a race for silver.

After a dominant qualifying heat on Sunday, the US women once again flattened competition en route to an easy gold medal in the team final.

The US finished with a score of 184.897 — eight points better than second-place China. As SB Nation's Rodger Sherman pointed out, the gap between the US and China was wider than the gap between China and last-place Brazil.

The team finished with a bang on the floor. Laurie Hernandez, 16, kicked things off with a wink at the judges before scoring a 14.8, the best of the day, in one of the biggest routines of her life. It was just the beginning, though: Aly Raisman then followed it up with a nearly flawless routine for a 15.3.

Things to consider before dating a broke man

Firstly, it is not a crime to be broke! The crime is choosing to remain broke!

Love can be found in the strangest place, even in the house of a broke man. When you are in love with a financially unstable man, he requires all the support he can get from you as such you need to be sure you can handle the situation.

Money is known to have been the cause of cheating in 50% of Nigerian girls.
Remember it is your choice to be in love with him.

These factors to consider include:

Friend battled in vain to save hero nightclub fire victim by dousing flames with bare hands

A heroic nightclub worker spent his final moments trying save people from a huge fire at one of the UK's most famous venues , it has emerged.

Tomas Ceidukas, 28, died in hospital yesterday as a result of injuries he suffered when a blaze broke out at Ibiza-style mega-club Studio 338, in Greenwich, south east London, on Monday.

As tributes poured in for the victim, it emerged Tomas had been helping people leave the venue before he was engulfed in black smoke.

And friend Max Maxi, told how he battled in vain to save his friend by putting out the flames with his bare hands.

On a Facebook tribute page for Tomas, he posted an image of his burn injuries adding: "Just got back from the hospital after seeing my dear Friend , Brother, Son, Tomas on his bed.

Donald Trump says nobody thought he was suggesting people should shoot Hillary Clinton

Donald Trump attempted to clarify a controversial statementthat he made in reference to Hillary Clinton at a campaign rally in North Carolina on Tuesday.

Trump's remarks seemed to suggest that proponents of the Second Amendment could take violent action to prevent his Democratic rival from selecting new justices to sit on the US Supreme Court.

In making the suggestion, Trump alluded to his claim that Clinton would appoint judges who back policies meant to "take [Americans'] guns away."

"Hillary wants to abolish, essentially abolish, the Second Amendment," Trump said. "By the way, and if she gets to pick — if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don't know."

Serena Williams crashes out of women's singles and the diving pool turns green - What you missed last night at Rio 2016

Six things you missed overnight 

1. Michael Phelps wins his 20th and 21st Olympic gold medals

The American - already by a distance the most decorated Olympian of all time - stormed to 200m butterfly victory and held off the challenge of South African Chad le Clos, who could only finish fourth.

Less than an hour later - after shedding tears on the podium while being awarded his 20th Olympic gold medal - Phelps anchored the USA to 4x200m freestyle relay glory.

Chinese tourist loses wallet and becomes refugee in Germany for two weeks by mistake

AChinese tourist who lost his wallet unwittingly became a refugee in Germany for two weeks.

The 31-year-old backpacker, who spoke neither German nor English, reported that he "needed help" after arriving at Stuttgart airport on July 4.

The man, who was described as "smartly dressed" and had apparently travelled to Europe for a walking holiday in Italy, was taken to a reception centre in the nearby town of Heidelberg.

Instead of signing a stolen item form for his wallet at the local police station, the man, known as Mr L, unwittingly filled out an asylum request form.

Jamaican swimmer Alia Atkinson becomes first black woman to win world title

Alia Atkinson of Jamaica

Alia Atkinson became the first black woman to win a world swimming title when she triumphed in the 100m breaststroke at the world short-course championships in Doha on Saturday as more records tumbled.

Jamaican Atkinson, 25, claimed the title and equalled Ruta Meilutyte's world record of 1min 02.36sec in the process - although under governing body FINA rules this still equates to a new record.

Meilutyte appeared on course for a successful defence of her title only for her rival to move on to the Lithuanian's shoulder at the final turn.

Atkinson then clawed her way down the final length before out-touching the 17-year-old by 0.10sec.

She was completely unaware of what she had done, staring up at the scoreboard with an air of resignation before it gradually dawned