Simone Biles, fresh off leading the U.S. women’s gymnastics team back to the gold medal in team competition, returns to the mat today for the Paris Olympics all-around finals.
Simone Biles , of the United States, performs on the vault during the women's artistic gymnastics team finals round at Bercy Arena at the 2024 Summer Olympics , Tuesday, July 30, 2024, in Paris, France. Technically, there’s no limit on how high the D-score can go, but most elite routines top out between 5.4 and 6.0. Some exceptional ones can go higher — for example, Biles’ floor routine at the team finals had a 6.8 D-score.
Andrade won the gold medal in the vault at the Tokyo Olympics and was runner-up in the all-around to Sunisa Lee.Simone Biles has had five skills named after her in the gymnastics’ Code of Points after completing them in competition. Biles will try to run her streak to 34 straight all-around golds at the Paris Games later Thursday night.Jordan Chiles posted the fourth best all-around score during qualifying Sunday, but she won’t compete for individual all-around gold.
If she finishes atop the podium at 27 years, four months and 18 days, she will be the oldest all-around champion since then 30-year-old Maria Gorokhovskaya of the Soviet Union during the first women’s all-around competition in 1952. The 27-year-old has kept quiet about her future plans, saying her focus after leaving Paris will be on the post-Olympic tour she headlines. Biles is also married and has talked openly about the fear of missing out on life milestones because of her time in the gym.
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