Apart from Biles, the other big victor in Rio was Japan’s Kohei Uchimura, a six-time world champion who once again captured the men’s individual all-around, as he had done at the London Games, but this time around added a team gold to his trophy shelf.
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They are the power couple of Track and Field: Defending decathlon gold medalist Ashton Eaton from Bend, Ore., and his wife Brianne Theiesen-Eaton, who just won bronze in the Heptathlon for Canada.
“The fact that somehow because that expectation [to win five gold medals] was put on her, it became a letdown that she got a bronze on beam”, said Boorman, who works at the Biles-owned World Champions Centre in Spring.
Biles bounced back from a bronze-medal performance on the beam to dominate the floor, completing her Rio Olympics with four gold medals and the bronze.
United States’ Simone Biles performs on the floor during the artistic gymnastics women’s app … “I’m walking away from my first Olympics with five medals and four in gold, how can I be disappointed?”
On the floor, Biles scored 15.966, and it is considered her best performance. On Tuesday, Biles got a kiss on her cheek from the real-life Efron, who is in Rio for the summer Olympics as well. Great Britain’s Amy Tinkler picked up the bronze. Zac actually heard about it and tweeted her on several occasions, including last week before the finals in which she and Team USA won the gold.
Mostly they were still very excited about having just met Efron, laughing that he will be a major figure in all of their plans for the next few days.
Yeah, it was a good day to be Simone Biles. “There is some sense of relief”.
“But, I’m sad that I’m done, too”.
“I don’t even consider myself competing against her”, Raisman added.
“She’s just in another level”. “It’s fantastic; it’s hard to put into words”.
“She’s insane. I can’t believe she has four Olympic gold medals”, she said. She told the media, ‘That was your goal for me to have a gold medal on it. “Laurie said before floor today, if you get silver you’re the best because Simone doesn’t count”.
Ever-so-considerate Ellen then gifted Biles a leotard covered with Efron’s face.
It’s understandable that Biles can’t find the words to describe how dominant she’s been.
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Simone took to Instagram that afternoon to share a video she made of her kissing the “Neighbors 2” star on the cheek over and over and over again.
