With a consistently excellent all-around performance on Sunday at the Paris Olympics, Simone Biles made a comeback.
She finished first in the women’s vault and floor exercise qualifying, second in the balancing beam qualifications, first in the individual all-around final on Thursday, and first in the team final on Tuesday, all while helping Team USA qualify first.
The 27-year-old’s youthful supremacy, longevity, honesty, and glamour epitomise the ideal modern athlete, making her one of the very few in sport to completely transcend their discipline. Despite her extraordinary longevity, she entered the 2024 Olympics under unusual circumstances, having withdrew from all but two of the Tokyo Games’ events three years prior owing to “the twisties.”
She did, however, regain her self-assurance and win the 2023 World Championships to go into the Games in incredible shape. She might win five gold medals in the competition, solidifying her reputation as the greatest female gymnast of all time.
When is Simone Biles’s next competition?
July 30: 5:15 p.m.: Team final for artistic gymnastics
August 1st, 5:15 p.m.: All-around final
August 3: 3.20 p.m. vault final
August 4 Final of the Even Bar, 2.40 p.m.
Balance beam final on August 5 at 11:38 a.m.
Final floor exercise: 1.23 p.m.
What makes Simone Biles unique?
The American gymnast holds the record for most success in her sport. With 37 medals from Olympic and World Championship competitions, her pedigree is unquestionable. 2013 saw her win her first international medals at the World Championships in Antwerp, Belgium, where she took home two golds, a silver, and a bronze. In a sport where the average age of medal winners at the Tokyo Olympics was 20.6, she demonstrated her exceptional endurance by returning to the same city ten years later and winning four golds and a silver.
She has been a trailblazer in her field, creating a number of novel routines and techniques and spearheading the discussion on sexual assault in gymnastics and mental health.
Beyond the gym, Biles has a huge profile. She serves as an ambassador for major international companies like Visa, Uber Eats, Athleta, United Airlines, and Beats by Dre. She wed American football player Jonathan Owens on Sunday, and the leotard she wore was worth £2,333 since it had 10,000 Swarovski crystals sewn into the fabric.
What does “Biles” mean?
Because of her superiority on the court, Biles is able to utilise a variety of talents that she created.
The Biles can be found in floor exercises, balance beams, and vaults. It matches a move she created in 2018 that has a 6.0 difficulty rating in the vault; 6.4 is the hardest rating that can be achieved; further details are provided below.
The Biles, one of the hardest dismounts at the conclusion of a program, is scored an 8 out of 10 on the balance beam.
The third and last “Biles” is a floor exercise that she performed when she was just 16 years old in 2013. In it, she double backflips and rotates 180 degrees in the second flip. A 7 out of 10 is the difficulty rating.
What is known as “Biles II”?
Two of the aforementioned moves—the vault “Biles” in particular—needed to be developed because they were signs of her voracious quest for success.
With a maximum difficulty rating of 6.4, the “Biles II” was added to the repertoire during the most recent Olympic cycle. As a result, her performance of it in Paris was a world record and contributed to her incredible 15.800 score.
The term “Biles II” also describes her floor move, which she debuted in 2019 and is ranked for the highest level of difficulty. She performs an incredible backflip, spinning over 1080 degrees before landing.
What transpired with Simone Biles during the Olympics in Tokyo?
Biles withdrew from five Olympic finals three years ago, citing mental health issues that were becoming worse due to “the twisties.”
The term “twisties” describes a mental block that causes a gymnast to lose their sense of space when in the air, increasing the risk of injury or falling. Shortly after she had confessed on social media that she was feeling “the weight of the world on [her] shoulders” following qualification, the incident happened live during the team final.
Biles prioritised her mental health, which she publicly acknowledged while receiving a barrage of hate mail from trolls who sent racial and sexist insults and accusations that she was a quitter.
Her subsequent successes validated this decision.
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