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Simone Biles has continued to construct her legacy within the sport, the place she has dominated for the previous eight years.
Biles completed the Paris Olympics with a silver medal on the ground train and may need gained a gold medal if not for a persistent misstep. She missed out on a podium spot on the stability beam after a fall that finally price her factors.
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Simone Biles holds up her medals throughout the girls’s creative gymnastics equipment ultimate on the Bercy Enviornment throughout the Olympic Video games in Paris, Monday, August 5, 2024. (AP picture/Francisco Seco)
Regardless, Biles’ spectacular run on the Summer season Video games ended with a complete of 4 medals. She gained gold within the crew ultimate, all-around and vault occasions, and it was a really completely different Biles than what followers noticed on the 2021 Tokyo Olympics.
“I could not be extra pleased with how I did,” Biles mentioned. “I am 27 years outdated and I am strolling away from these Video games with 4 medals so as to add to my assortment. I am not mad about it.”
First, Biles shocked a lot of the United States when she twisted her calf on the ground throughout warm-up. She persevered and competed in each occasion the crew wanted her to compete in.
Biles led the crew of Jade Carey, Jordan Chiles, Suni Lee and Hezly Rivera to a gold medal within the crew occasion, scoring a 171.296, almost six full factors higher than Italy.
Simone Biles’ medals on the Olympic Video games in Paris on Monday, August 5, 2024. (AP picture/Francisco Seco)
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Within the all-around competitors, Biles scored 59.131, adequate to beat Brazil’s Rebeca Andrade and teammate Lee.
Vault Gold was the subsequent step for Biles. It was the second time she had gained gold within the occasion. Her 15.300 was sufficient to beat out Andrade and Carey for the highest spot.
The stability beam did not go as she or others would have preferred, however by staying on the ground, she completed in second place, adopted by Chiles.
Biles has 11 Olympic medals — essentially the most of any American gymnast in Olympic historical past. She is tied for second all-time with Věra Čáslavská of the nation then often known as Czechoslovakia, and 7 medals behind Larisa Latynina of the previous Soviet Union.
Simone Biles smiles after successful silver within the girls’s particular person ground ultimate in creative gymnastics throughout the Olympic Video games in Paris, Monday, Aug. 5, 2024. (AP picture/Francisco Seco)
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“I’ve achieved quite a bit (greater than I believed I’d),” Biles added. “A number of years in the past, I did not suppose I might ever come again right here.”
The Related Press contributed to this report.
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