Gymnastics superstar Simone Biles has won her ninth national title. Biles posted a two-day all-around total of 119.750 at the U.S. Championships, well clear of Skye Blakely and Kayla DiCello. Biles' spectacular performance left little doubt she appears ready to add another all-around Olympic gold to go with the one she captured in 2016.
Simone Biles competes on the balance beam during the U.S. Gymnastics Championships, Sunday, June 2, 2024, in Fort Worth, Texas. Simone Biles gestures during introductions for the U.S. Gymnastics Championships Sunday, June 2, 2024, in Fort Worth, Texas. Simone Biles competes on the balance beam during the U.S. Gymnastics Championships Sunday, June 2, 2024, in Fort Worth, Texas. Simone Biles competes on the balance beam during the U.S.
In front of an audience that included her husband, Chicago Bears safety Jonathan Owens, Biles put on a four-rotation clinic that featured all the trademarks of a typical Biles performance. There was jaw-dropping athleticism mixed with precision and more than a splash of swagger. Her only misstep on Sunday came on vault. She came up short on her Yurchenko double pike — two back flips with her hands clasped behind her knees — during warmups and overcompensated when it counted, generating so much force she wound up on her back. She still received a 15.000 for her effort, a testament to a vault that’s never been completed in competition by another woman and only attempted by a select group of men.
Blakely, 19, put together another impressive performance and will head to Minneapolis with plenty of momentum. Three years after her bid to make the 2020 Olympic teamSuni Lee, the 2020 Olympic champion who has spent the last year-plus battling kidney issues that have limited her training, shook off an early mistake on vault to put together elegant routines on uneven bars and balance beam that few in the world — even Biles — can match.
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