--- title: Rio Olympics: Laurie Hernandez Whispers 'I Got This' description: Laurie Hernandez and the U.S. Women’s Gymnastics team crushed their competitors on Tuesday, winning the gold medal in the team all-around. canonical: https://time.com/4447177/rio-olympics-laurie-hernandez-balance-beam/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-10T19:35:38.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:03:07.388Z og:title: Laurie Hernandez Had the Best Pre-Balance Beam Routine Moment og:description: It was definitely gold medal-worthy og:url: https://time.com/4447177/rio-olympics-laurie-hernandez-balance-beam/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6351d85156fc80b6/6988a1e55f570fdb1eb22277/rio-olympics-laurie-hernandez-balance-beam.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4228 og:image:height: 2378 og:image:alt: Gymnastics - Artistic - Olympics: Day 4 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Laurie Hernandez Had the Best Pre-Balance Beam Routine Moment twitter:description: It was definitely gold medal-worthy twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6351d85156fc80b6/6988a1e55f570fdb1eb22277/rio-olympics-laurie-hernandez-balance-beam.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Laurie Hernandez Had the Best Pre-Balance Beam Routine Moment > Sponsored content. 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(Photo by Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images) Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images by [Allison Sadlier / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Allison Sadlier / Entertainment Weekly Aug 10, 2016 7:35 PM UTC Laurie Hernandez and the U.S. Women’s Gymnastics team crushed their competitors on Tuesday night, winning the gold medal in the team all-around. The internet’s collective heart soared after Hernandez winked at the judges before starting her stellar floor routine, and now people are taking notice of her moment before the balance beam. The 16-year-old gymnast whispered to herself, “I got this,” seconds before completing her beam exercise which would help the U.S. to bring home a first place win. > [](https://twitter.com/hannahbsampson/status/763213627184783360) The Twitterverse has fallen in love with Hernandez and here are some of the best tweets from her inspirational moment below. > [](https://twitter.com/juliastmi/status/763209162251702272) > [](https://twitter.com/JessScout/status/763208404340994050) > [](https://twitter.com/Ummbecca/status/763208143648149504) > [](https://twitter.com/sophia%5Fhall1/status/763382938419404800) _This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2016/08/10/laurie-hernandez-i-got-this) _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://www.ew.com) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4447177/rio-olympics-laurie-hernandez-balance-beam/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4447177/rio-olympics-laurie-hernandez-balance-beam/"},"headline":"Laurie Hernandez Had the Best Pre-Balance Beam Routine Moment","datePublished":"2016-08-10T19:35:38.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:03:07.388Z","description":"It was definitely gold medal-worthy","url":"https://time.com/4447177/rio-olympics-laurie-hernandez-balance-beam/","keywords":["motto"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6351d85156fc80b6/6988a1e55f570fdb1eb22277/rio-olympics-laurie-hernandez-balance-beam.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Allison Sadlier / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6351d85156fc80b6/6988a1e55f570fdb1eb22277/rio-olympics-laurie-hernandez-balance-beam.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Gymnastics - Artistic - Olympics: Day 4","caption":"Gymnastics - Artistic - Olympics: Day 4","creditText":"Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/motto/","name":"motto"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4447177/rio-olympics-laurie-hernandez-balance-beam/","name":"Laurie Hernandez Had the Best Pre-Balance Beam Routine Moment"}}]}] ```