The American gymnast Simone Biles won the gold medal in the all-around competition on Thursday Paris Gameseight years after winning in Rio 2016, which places her on a par with the legendary Larysa Latynina and Vera Caslavska, until now the only double Olympic champions.
He won with a 59,131 points and a 1,199 point lead over Brazilian Rebeca Andrade (57,932)once again Olympic runner-up, as in Tokyo 2020.
The story of a champion
Simone Biles achieved something extraordinary on Thursday afternoon, even for a legendary athlete like her.
According to the newspaper elmundo.es Biles won the gold in the all-around competition at the Paris Games, which crowns the best gymnast in the world, and thus regained the title she had already won in Rio 2016. She is the only one in history who has managed to win twice without it being in consecutive Games. In between were the Tokyo Games, in which the athlete withdrew due to mental health problems. This parenthesis, with all theschallenges he has had to face, makes his triumph yesterday unique and difficult to surpass.
Is he Biles’ second gold in Paris 2024after having already won the one of the team competition. In total he has six in his careerand nine Olympic medals. The plata Last night was for her rival and friend the Brazilian Rebecca Andradewho was only superior to her in one of the four exercises, the uneven bars, the very apparatus in which Biles does not touch the sky.
The USA added two medals to the medal table with the bronzewhich was for Sunisa Leegold at the Tokyo Games that Biles had to abandon. In the test, which was key in this Olympic redemption of Simone Bilesthis achieved a total score of 59,131 points and Rebeca Andrade, of 57,932. Both had debuted together in Rio 2016. Biles made it clear from the beginning that history was waiting for her. On the first apparatus, which was the jumpthe American got 15,766 points and the Brazilian one, 15,100.
The second shift was for the asymmetrical, Andrade won and obtained 14,666compared to her rival’s 13.733 points. There, when Andrade took the lead in the total score, Biles twisted her face and did not recover her smile until she finished the beam exercise, which already left her ahead again on the scoreboard. She would not look back again amidst a constant chase of flashes and glances. This time, nothing could upset her. There was only the last exercise left. It is on the floor where Biles dominates the air with the most mastery.. He nailed itShe was the last to perform it and decided that the only emotion she would allow was that caused by her feat. The jury had not yet given its score and the stadium was already cheering the champion while her rivals revered her.
Mental health
It is the Biles’ first individual medal at these Gameswho was looking to make up for the traumatic moment she experienced in Tokyo in Paris. She has already achieved it. She is one of the athletes who is generating the most expectations in these Games and has filled every session at the Arena de Bercy. In the stands yesterday were Zinedine Zidane and Nadia Comaneci.
«I’m happy with my performance. If I hadn’t worked mentally, I wouldn’t be here tonight.“When I started, I didn’t think I would get to this point, so I want to tell all the young girls to believe in their dreams. The hardest part is over, so from now on I’m going to enjoy it,” said the star at a press conference, already with the medal hanging around her neck.
On Thursday, she had the chance to break another record: Had she performed a new skill she submitted to the International Gymnastics Federation on the bars, she would have become the only active gymnast to have skills named after her on all four apparatus.
But he didn’t try, and he didn’t need to, as his arsenal of other unique and invaluable skills was more than enough to seal the gold.
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