Simone Biles' epic floor routine at the women's gymnastics individual all-around final secured the gymnast her 6th career gold medal, and 9th medal overall.
The American gymnastics star -- now the oldest Olympic women’s gymnastics champ since 1952, at 27-years-old -- edged Brazil’s Rebeca Andrade during a tense Olympic all-around final on Thursday. Biles’ total of 59.131 was just over a point ahead of Andrade at 57.932, one of the closest calls Biles has ever endured at a major international event.
She is also the first woman to win multiple all-around gold medals since 1968, when Czechoslovakia’s Vera Caslavska won back-to-back gold medals in Tokyo and Mexico City. She won seven gold medals in all, including four during the 1968 Olympics. After breaking records with the Team USA women’s gymnastics all-around win, Simone Biles took to Instagram to troll a high-profile critic.How does gymnastics scoring work?, there is a lot to follow when it comes to gymnastics — and that’s before even getting into the turns, spins and twists of the gymnasts themselves.Biles won the event at the 2016 Rio Games but pulled out of the final at the 2020 Tokyo Games after getting"the twisties" and did not get a chance to defend her title.
Biles and Lee will find themselves in the same competition yet again in the balance beam final. The two have been trading off highest scoring beam routines throughout the 2024 season- and this competition is bound to be a nail-biter. Biles took home the bronze medal on the balance beam in both 2016 and 2020. Lee, on the other hand, has not yet medaled in an Olympic balance beam final.
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