Simone Biles doesn’t need much encouragement to either take a selfie in the athletes’ village, or to post it on her social media accounts.
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Where, when and how can you catch the 2016 Rio Olympics women’s gymnastics vault finals? Kellogg’s unveiled two commemorative cereal boxes, with one featuring Biles and the other featuring the five-member team. Raisman got emotional as soon as she landed, then told Biles to go out and stick it.
Her win felt drama-free or boring only if you don’t like to watch a virtuoso performer stretching ideas of what’s possible, or see a great creation story come to fruition. She had awesome tears of joy with her teammates from Stanford she was celebrating with and knowing the message that young african-american young girls are going to take from this, they too can become olympic champion swimmers, you know, us women don’t always want to get in the water because of our hair or other things in our culture and she’s broken down that barrier and I love it. It denied Simone Biles a chance to attain iconic status.
Michael Phelps and Simone Biles powered their way to more gold medals with rousing routs at the Rio Games on Thursday.
Manuel became the first African-American woman to win a gold medal in an individual swimming event for the United States. “That’s just her personality”. She’s the first woman to take three consecutive all-round world titles while her 14 world championship medals are the most ever won by an American woman.
“I would say yes”, Martha Karolyi said when asked if Biles was the greatest ever.
Biles’ record-breaking talent spans beyond the Rio gymnasium. She’s expected to obliterate her competition in three of next week’s apparatus finals.
Biles, though, wants no part of the debate. As Biles excelled on the bars, he said: “I think she might go higher even than some of the men”. It is what it is. “I would like there to be a day where there are more of us and it’s not just ‘Simone, the black swimmer”, said Manuel.
It all started during the individual all-around-Raisman and Biles were competing for the title of best gymnast in the world.
Since the event was introduced to the Olympic programme in 1952 only Soviet Union duo Larisa Latynina (1960) and Ludmilla Tourischeva (1972), Czech Vera Caslavska (1968) and Ukraine’s Lilia Podkopayeva (1996) have bagged the double.
“Just because she wins every single competition”, Raisman said.
Not many feel interested in playing other sports or do not feel they can succeed in those other sports due to the exceedingly low numbers of black female athletes in sports such as swimming, gymnastics, and tennis.
“My advice is. you are just as good as you are today”.
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“It’s very special that both our names are Simone and that we both won gold and we’re both from Houston”.
