Simone Biles, aka The GOAT, has won another gold medal to add to her already stacked collection.
She finished top of the podium in last night’s artistic gymnastics women’s all-around final.
It was an emotional victory for Biles, after she pulled out of the Tokyo 2020 games due to a case of the ‘twisties’, a phenomenon when gymnasts unexpectedly stop being able to land their moves.
Brazil’s Rebeca Andrade took the silver, and fellow Team USA gymnast Sunisa ‘Suni’ Lee, who won the gold at the Tokyo 2020 games, finished with bronze.
This latest gold for Biles comes after leading Team USA to victory a few days ago in the team final.
She now has six Olympic gold medals, with nine Olympic medals in total, cementing her further still as the most decorated gymnast of all time.
At 27-years-old, Simone Biles is also the oldest person to win the event for 72 years.
To celebrate being undoubtedly the Greatest Of All Time, Biles put on a diamond goat necklace after her floor routine, which was the last apparatus the gymnasts performed on.
“It’s a little ode… a lot of people love it. They always call me the GOAT, so I thought it would be really special if I got one made,” she said.
“The haters hate it, but I like that even more. It’s just a special part of me that I have here.
“In the [athletes’] village I have a stuffed goat. Just to get a reminder, like ‘You can go out there, you can do it. You’ve done it before. So let’s go’.”
How did Simone Biles do it?
The all around event consists of four apparatus: vault, uneven bars, balance beam and floor.
Biles started with the hardest vault move a gymnast can perform, the Biles II, which is a double pike.
She later said she was glad she started with it, as she made a mistake on the uneven bars later on, which put her behind her nearest rival, Brazil’s Rebeca Andrade.
But a high scoring vault and then a big beam routine in her third rotation put Biles ahead of the pack once more.
Finally she took to the floor, delivering a routine with some of the hardest tumbles in the world, giving her a total score of 59.131 and the gold medal.
Source; newsround/articles
