Except they’re not just like us, in that after news on Biles’ crush went viral, Efron flew to Rio to meet her, and paid back all the cheek-kissing she’d given his cardboard likeness by kissing her on the cheek. When 2016 dawned, for once she didn’t get too specific. Usain Bolt breezed through another sprint as he makes a run at one final Olympic title in his favorite race.
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“I feel really good at 22 and I can’t wait to see what is to come”, Raisman said after scoring a silver medal in the all-around competition.
Besides, who could have written this?
The nine medals won by this handful broke the record of eight shared by the 1984 and 2008 teams. “Especially four being gold, that’s just unheard of”.
In today’s floor exercise final, Biles was better than her best.
As impressive as Biles’ rank in the medals table is – the Republic of Simone is now leading Greece, the country where the Olympics originated, by the way – it is not enough to convey the full measure of her greatness.
We never imagined we would see the types of skills performed by Biles and others.
Rio Olympic officials in Brazil have one less trouble to worry about following robberies, stray gunfire and a falling camera outside the basketball arena. On legs she joked felt like rocks, Biles put together 90 seconds of effortless joy. Aimee Boorman, Biles’ coach said she was not going to cry “right now”.
The two embraced, their journey that began when Biles was 6 ending – at least for now – with history. “That was the goal”. On Sunday, Chinese diver He Zi won a silver medal, and immediately received a proposal from her boyfriend, Chinese diver Qin Kai, who had earlier won a bronze.
While Japan played the Americans tough in the first half, the end result was another blowout victory for the USA, although the 110-64 dismantling of the Japanese team may have come at a cost. “We all need to have a little bit of a break and kind of trying to be normal once we get back home”. Turning one of the biggest sporting events in the world into your personal showcase has a way of changing things. “I got better with age”.
“It’s very insane. To think what I’ve done, it’s been an unbelievable experience and I don’t think I could be more proud of myself”, said the team, all-around, vault and floor champion.
Leyva, a bronze medalist in the all-around in 2012, was named an alternate after the trials, making the team when John Orozco suffered torn knee ligaments in training.
“It’s pretty insane what I’ve accomplished my first Olympics”, Biles said.
Normally, older means tougher to take two years off and return for another Olympic go-around in 2018 or 2019, as Douglas and Raisman did in this cycle. The charismatic forward has been one of the world’s top players for more than a decade, but she has never won a major worldwide tournament with her national team.
“Just call me Mrs Efron already”, she captioned another photo. After finishing a disappointing fifth in team finals, the American men finished with three medals overall after Alex Naddour took bronze on pommel horse.
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“This was absolutely a redemption, not only for me but for the team as well”, Leyva said.
