On Thursday of the Paris Olympics this year, Simone Biles took gold in the all-around gymnastics competition, flipping and jumping and dazzling the crowd to win her second Olympic title and defeating Brazilian Rebeca Andrade, the silver medalist, by an entire point.
First, Simone Biles performed the Yurchenko double pike vault, which has the highest difficulty and had never been performed in gymnastics history. This move is one of her trademarks on the vault, and placed her eight-tenths ahead of Andrade, her rival.
But Bile couldn’t continue the lead as an unfortunate mistake on the uneven bars cost her first place. She then dropped down to third.
On the balance beam, Biles remained completely stable while others shook and wobbled, and immediately took the lead by a couple of tenths of a point.
Andrade took silver while Sunisa Lee, Simone Biles’s USA teammate and champion at the Tokyo Games, took the bronze medal. Sunisa Lee had a rocky start on the vault but made up some ground on the bars. However, on the floor, she landed such a great double back flip that she wore a wide and disbelieving smile on her face after the flip.
Throughout the Olympics, Biles has proven that she can do anything – from vaults to tricks on the parallel bar – and undoubtedly win.
First, Simone Biles performed the Yurchenko double pike vault, which has the highest difficulty and had never been performed in gymnastics history. This move is one of her trademarks on the vault, and placed her eight-tenths ahead of Andrade, her rival.
But Bile couldn’t continue the lead as an unfortunate mistake on the uneven bars cost her first place. She then dropped down to third.
On the balance beam, Biles remained completely stable while others shook and wobbled, and immediately took the lead by a couple of tenths of a point.
Andrade took silver while Sunisa Lee, Simone Biles’s USA teammate and champion at the Tokyo Games, took the bronze medal. Sunisa Lee had a rocky start on the vault but made up some ground on the bars. However, on the floor, she landed such a great double back flip that she wore a wide and disbelieving smile on her face after the flip.
Throughout the Olympics, Biles has proven that she can do anything – from vaults to tricks on the parallel bar – and undoubtedly win.