In 2015, Biles became the first woman to win three consecutive World Championships and she earned her 10th gold medal, making her one of the world’s top gymnasts.
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She’s the most searched for gymnast on Google.
Biles stayed in the hunt for a record five gold medals by a female gymnast at one Olympic Games.
Responding to the comparison, the superstar said: ‘I’m not the next Usain Bolt or Michael Phelps. Her score of 16.033 for her “Cheng” was the best of the night. Biles was born in OH to a drug and alcohol addicted mother and was bounced around in foster care, until she and her younger sister Adria, were adopted by their grandparents when Simone was just six years old.
Simone is four feet and eight inches tall – but manages to leap higher than any of her competitors. She needed to blow the rest of the competition away and that’s exactly what she did.
“No one goes in thinking they can beat Simone”, teammate Aly Raisman said after winning the all around silver.
On Sunday she averaged 15.966 points across her two vault attempts to earn gold.
She also said she was disappointed in her first vault.
All-around champion Simone Biles scooped her third gold medal at the Olympics when she soared to victory in the vault final on Sunday. And it’s not over yet, she has the chance to win three more medals at Rio.
It gets a little trickier after that, if only because of unfortunate timing.
Biles and Raisman completed a one-two finish for the second time for the US after Nastia Liukin and Shawn Johnson won gold and silver respectively in 2008. At only 20 years of age we could be seeing the rise of another dominant U.S. Olympic athlete. With two gold medals already to name, Biles quest to make gymnastics history continues with the Vault Finals – which promises to deliver unforgettable routines and an incredible round of competition.
In 2012, Mustafina and Raisman finished with the same total score and the tie was broken by using their three highest apparatus scores. “Those are the culminations of our career”. She also does the hardest balance-beam dismount in the world: two back flips to a full-twisting double back somersault. This medal is not just for me but for the African-Americans who came before me…and for the people who come behind me.
Douglas, 20, became a household name at the 2012 London Games, where she won individual all-around gold and was part of the gold-medal winning USA team known as the “Fierce Five”.
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“To me, I’m just the same Simone”.
