She brings home a total of five Olympic medals – four Gold – Women’s Vault (15.966); Women’s Team All-Around (194.897); Women’s Floor Exercise (15.966); Women’s Individual All-Around (62.198); – and one Bronze Women’s Beam (14.733).
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Simone Biles holds up the American Flag during the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics Closing Ceremony at Maracana Stadium on Sunday (August 21) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Biles, along with Aly Raisman and Madison Kocian spent their Saturday showing off their incredible muscles in bikinis on Rio’s famous Barra da Tijuca beach.
The only other USA gymnast to serve as an Olympic flag bearer was Alfred Jochim, who did so at the Berlin 1936 Games’ Opening Ceremonies.
Soon enough, she’ll have to start thinking about defending her record in Tokyo in four years, but for now, she deserves to celebrate.
IBTimes UK has compiled some Twitter reactions after Simone Biles led Team USA as the flag-bearer at the closing ceremony of the Rio 2016 Olympics.
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For her part, Biles said,”Every single day that I’ve had here has been like a dream come true and it just keeps on getting better”. Now, 80 years on, Biles made history when she was given the opportunity.
