The 19-year-old American soared to the all-around title on Thursday, putting the gap between herself and the rest of the world on full display under the Olympic spotlight.
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We don’t know about you, but there’s more than just their incomprehensible talent and agility that has kept our rapt attention every time “The Final Five” competes.
But Aly has developed her own fanbase for doing what is often the unthinkable in gymnastics: being even better at her second Olympics.
US gymnast Simone Biles added to her trove of gold medals at the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games on Sunday, winning her third in the vault.
Biles outclassed the competition once again in the vault final, winning her third gold of the Rio Games with a score of 15.966. Biles jumped up on the mats to wave to the crowd – she had done it, a gold medal at the Olympics.
According to her bio on the Team USA website, www.teamusa.org, Biles was homeschooled. Needing only to land her second vault to win, Biles was near flawless.
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”.
Biles will go down in history and her Olympic moment will be remembered for years to come.
Biles added a third gold medal to her rapidly rising haul Sunday, easily winning the women’s vault final. “This was the best I could possibly do”, said Raisman, who already plans to join Biles on vacation in Belize when the Games end. “She has very good (start values), her jumps are very good, and she is always stable”. No other gymnast has won more than two world championships in a row. The American led by 1.533 going into the final floor rotation on which she is the reigning three-time world champion.
She scored 15.933 and became the first female in 20 years to “win back-to-back world and Olympic all around titles”, CNN reported. As 2008 all-around champ Nastia Liukin recently told the New York Times, “normally the separations between first and second place could be three-tenths or five-tenths and she goes out and wins by one or two points”.
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“It is something I’ve definitely struggled with a lot”, Manuel said.
