Simone Biles goes residence with one other gold medal after claiming the highest spot on the rostrum within the ladies’s gymnastics all-around closing on Thursday night time, turning into the oldest all-around champion since 1952.
Biles, 27, stole the present early on with the Yurchenko double pike vault – a fancy and troublesome vault renamed after the American gymnast in 2023 after she grew to become the primary feminine to land it throughout worldwide competitors. She scored a excessive of 15.7666.
Simone Biles of Workforce United States competes within the ground train throughout the Inventive Gymnastics Ladies’s All-Round Remaining on day six of the Olympic Video games Paris 2024 at Bercy Enviornment on August 01, 2024 in Paris, France. (Naomi Baker/Getty Photos)
A slight slip-up on the uneven bars wasn’t sufficient to derail her marketing campaign for gold, and a stable 14.566 on the steadiness beam put her again on high. Biles entered the ultimate rotation with a slim lead over Brazil’s Rebeca Andrade: a margin of simply 0.166 factors.
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However Biles pulled off a close to good ground train routine, scoring a excessive of 15.066. Together with her sixth gold medal and ninth general medal, no different gymnast has gained greater than Biles.
She can be now the oldest to win the ladies’s all-round since Maria Gorokhovskaya did so on the 1952 Helsinki Video games at age 30.
USA’s Simone Biles celebrates profitable the gold medal following the Ladies’s All-Round Remaining on the Bercy Enviornment on the sixth day of the 2024 Paris Olympic Video games in France. Image date: Thursday August 1, 2024. (Mike Egerton/PA Photos through Getty Photos)
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Biles’ comeback follows a difficult journey at the 2020 Tokyo Games where she withdrew from the all-around final after suffering a bad case of the twisties. As she focused on her mental health, Team USA teammate Suni Lee was propelled to the top, winning gold in that event.
Lee clinched a bronze medal after securing a score of 13.535 on the floor exercise routine.
Simone Biles (L) and Sunisa Lee of the United States celebrate after winning respectively the gold and bronze medal at the end of the artistic gymnastics women’s all around final of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the Bercy Arena in Paris, on August 1, 2024. (GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP via Getty Images)
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Biles and Lee continued to add to their resume after winning gold in the women’s team final on Tuesday.
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