But now the world knows why. Team USA holds the chance to win 10 gold medals in every finals event, including vault, beams, bar, and floor exercises. Biles, the victor of the 2013, 2014 and 2015 world championships, and Raisman also helped the US take the team gold medal for the second straight Olympics on Tuesday.
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Famous admirers of the gymnast have been full of praise for her performance, with Hillary Clinton tweeting: “Congrats on bringing home the gold and silver, Simone and Aly”. Her handsome smile and powerful gymnastic routines lead her through this year’s Olympic Games giving people around the world something to be proud of. She tallied her second gold medal in Rio, following USA’s team gold on Tuesday, and said it was her final event on Thursday in the all-around that was her defining point.
She stays on pace to win an unprecedented five gold medals, with balance beam Monday the most questionable.
United States’ Simone Biles celebrates on the podium after winning vault gold during the artistic gymnastics women’s apparatus final at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, Aug. 14, 2016. Despite that, Paseka scored over six tenths less than Biles on each vault.
“Coming into my first Olympics I didn’t think I was going to be getting a gold medal individually”.
One that she does better than anyone else.
After giving it all for the team, on Thursday, Biles competed in her own right. And 41-year-old Oksana Chusovitina of Uzbekistan attempted to perform two tricky front flips, hoping to get onto the podium at her seventh Olympics. Whitlock’s score of 15.633 was just enough to edge Hypolito, who finished with a 15.533. That win made her the first woman in 20 years to clinch back-to-back all around titles, CNN reports.
It’s become clear that American gymnast Simone Biles is just operating on another level. Biles has placed only second or third in the vault event at the past three World Championships.
Biles added a third gold medal to her rapidly rising haul on Sunday, easily capturing the women’s vault final.
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The 1,000 American gold medals is an incredible success that Manuel helped play an integral role in achieving.
