Biles scored a 62.198 and won the gold medal event by more than two points – a large margin in gymnastics, where a tenth or hundredth of a point can be all that separates silver and gold.
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“I told her to do it for herself and do it from joy”, Boorman said.
Without skipping a beat, Biles tweeted back that North merely needed a Simone Biles leotard from company GK Elite to be “my mini me!” Simone Manuel won a gold medal with a rare tie in the women’s 100 freestyle, becoming the first African-American woman to win Olympic gold in an individual event, a FINA official confirmed. The 19 year-old from team US has dominated the sporting headlines this week, thanks to her pitch-perfect Olympic routines, her sass-tastic eyeliner, oh, and those Simojis.
Biles became the fourth straight American woman to capture the all-around and fifth overall. She arrived in Brazil with 14 world championship medals – 10 of them gold – with routines astonishing in their mix of ambition and precision.
Teenage gymnastics phenomenon Simone Biles has vaulted herself to stardom with her bubbly personality and savvy use of social media – all while winning gold medals with the U.S. team and in the all-around women competition.
She grew up in Texas and says her favourite subject at school was history. She hasn’t lost an all-around competition since the spring of 2013, claiming three world titles and four USA crowns in the process. And when she broke down in tears after her near-perfect floor routine, celebrities, along with the rest of the world, could not help but love her. Which she nearly never does and rarely is. She’s favored to win the vault and the balance beam golds and, along with Raisman, a co-favorite in the floor exercise.
Simone is four feet and eight inches tall – but manages to leap higher than any of her competitors. “It was just kind of a train wreck”.
Success can be fleeting in gymnastics, with most athletes’ careers over by their mid-20s, but at least three months of applause await the group, who embark on a 36-city tour of the United States after the Games.
And she might well clean up a further three medals It doesnt stop there, you see.
“I was nervous a little bit for her today just to come out and do it and make it yours”, Boorman said. Now she can say she’s the greatest of all-time.
When the last notes of her music finished, she gave one more big smile and then, looking at Boorman, began to cry. But just who is the most-searched for gymnast in the world?
“She is breaking records left, right and center”.
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