Simone Biles carried the American flag through Rio de Janeiro’s Maracana Stadium on Sunday for the 2016 Summer Olympics’ closing ceremony. Most of the USA women’s Olympics gymnastics team headed down to the beach in Rio de Janeiro one last time on August 20, before the Olympics closing ceremony, to have some fun in the sand and the surf. Katz said that she aims to make “Dancing with the Stars” topical while also balancing the current with the nostalgic.
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USA gymnasts Laurie Hernandez, Simone Biles, Madison Kocian, Gabby Douglas and Aly Raisman – will go on tour together when they return to the U.S.
“Aside from being the individual all-around, vault and floor champion, she has set a new American record for most gold medals in women’s gymnastics at a single Games”, Yahoo!
Biles was clearly excited by the opportunity, but couldn’t pass up the chance to reach out to her crush one last time. That year, gymnast Alfred Jochim carried the flag at the closing ceremony.
“She obviously, after her outstanding performance in Rio, would go to the top of the list”.
“It’s an incredible honor to be selected as the flag bearer by my Team USA teammates”, Biles said. People who do not usually find themselves watching sports are suddenly intrigued to watch the best athletes of the world compete for the coveted gold medal awarded in each event.
She caps off her incredible August as the US flag bearer at tomorrow’s closing Olympic ceremony.
David Boudia, the 2012 Olympic gold medalist in 10-meter platform diving, took home the bronze in Rio. “I’ll just pray normally to myself, but I have it there in case”, the 19-year-old told the magazine in a July 8 interview.
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“Hey @ZacEfron”, she tweeted Saturday morning.
