PARIS: Simone Biles clinched her sixth Olympic gold medal in entrance of an ecstatic crowd on the Paris Video games on Thursday (Aug 1), reasserting her standing because the primary all-around gymnast three years after she withdrew from the identical closing on the Tokyo Video games.
In a good race between Biles and Brazil’s Rebeca Andrade, the American was surprisingly left trailing in third place after a flawed efficiency on the uneven bars.
However she was again on prime after a strong efficiency on her subsequent equipment – the stability beam.
As she waited to carry out final on the ground, she knew the gold could be hers if she averted any surprising slip-ups.
She executed an electrifying routine to safe the gold with a complete of 59.131 factors, simply 1.199 factors forward of her Brazilian rival.