She is basically unbeatable on the floor, on the vault, and on the beam.
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Biles is the fourth consecutive American to win the supreme title in gymnastics, inheriting the crown previously worn by Carly Patterson (2004), Nastia Liukin (2008) and Gabrielle Douglas (2012).
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 US team known as the “Fierce Five”.
Biles, standing at 4 feet 5 inches tall, became the first woman in 20 years to win back-to-back world and Olympic all-around titles.
With Simone Biles all-but-perfect performance in the Rio Olympics, she’s cemented herself as arguably the greatest gymnast ever. That’s an appellation that could never be applied to Raisman, who has spent her three days of competition in Rio performing at the absolute maximum of her abilities and was rewarded with a silver medal. But she is poised to make history this week as she goes for gold in five events. The bubbling 19-year-old known for her me megawatt smile in tears.
As U.S. Gymnastics tells us, with today’s gold medal, Biles sets a U.S. record for the most gymnastics gold medals in one Olympics for a female athlete.
Biles will have a chance to win two more individual medals – in the balance beam Monday and the floor exercise Tuesday.
These new medals added to Team USA’s 38 medals overall-16 gold, 10 silver and 12 bronze-and #POCMedalCount’s 13 medals.
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) – Simone Biles’ golden run in Rio is picking up steam.
So, what exactly is The Biles?
The vault final included a wide field of gymnasts in Rio Olympic Arena: it’s rare, for instance, for an Olympic gymnast to face a competitor who’s more than twice her age.
Mustafina had just pulled out an excellent uneven bars routine to earn 15.666 points, the best bars score of the night. A double layout with a half twist, and a blind landing.
But wait, she’s only 4ft 8in?
Biles shrugged off the talk, just as she shrugged off a question afterward about whether she was a celebrity (she says she’s not). We’ll just let that sink in for a moment.
She can fly Oh yes, the next-level routines.
We’ve heard she’s a pretty badass role model. She’s certainly doing the most hard work we’ve ever seen, says Christine Still, a gymnastics coach and member of BBC Sport’s commentary team.
“I can still improve on vault, and on beam and floor I’m at a very good place”. “People don’t go in thinking they can beat Usain Bolt either”.
Golf will return to the Olympics for the first time since the 1904 St. Louis Games, when 46-year-old insurance salesman George Seymour Lyon of Canada won the title just eight years after first picking up a golf club. Somebody dubbed her “Crabby Gabby” on social media this week, and she was clearly hurt.
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“Simone Biles” Twitter is hands down an absolute joy. “It’s so exciting”, Biles said at her medal ceremony.
