Simone Biles, 27, hasn't said that her career is over, but if her four-medal Olympic showing in Paris was a closing act she's pretty proud.
PARIS — Total solar eclipses are visible from Earth fewer than 10 times in a century, while visible meteor showers occur about 30 times a year. They are among the most elusive natural phenomena on this planet. And then there’s the perfect 10 in gymnastics, a manufactured marker attained by only seven women in Olympic history. After Olympic gymnastics abandoned the 10.0 scoring system in 2006, the closest thing the sport had to perfection was Simone Biles .
It was a spontaneous gesture born from genuine friendship between rivals, and from Biles’ and Chiles’ contentment to not be defined by their results. THE BEAM: A slip and no medal for first time in Olympics. “She’s an icon and legend herself,” Chiles said of Andrade. “First off, again, yes, it was an all-Black podium. Second off, why don’t we just give her flowers? Not only has she given Simone her flowers, but a lot of us in the United States our flowers as well.
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