That's exactly 'living legend' Simone Biles (27, USA) won her fifth Olympic gold medal.
Biles competed as part of the U.S. national team in the women's team final at the 2024 Paris Olympics at the Versi Arena in Paris, France, on the 31st (Korean time). The U.S. took the lead in winning 171.296 points. This marks the first time Biles has won an Olympic gold medal in eight years since the 2016 Rio Games, which swept the team event, individual all-around, vault and floor exercise. Biles advanced to the final of five events at the Paris Olympics, with the exception of the heresy parallel bars. He collected his first gold medal in the first team event as expected. He started the race for the fifth gold medal.
In addition, the U.S., with Biles at the forefront, also regained the top of the team event in eight years. The U.S. dedicated its victory to the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) and stayed in the silver medal at the Tokyo Games just before Biles missed the game due to the breakdown of mental breakdown caused by the separation of body rhythm and reason.
The final round of the women's team gymnastics event will be contested by eight countries. Three athletes from each country will add up and rank the scores obtained by participating in each of the four events of vault-dan parallel bars-average team-maru sports. It is a method in which two countries are grouped together and four events are played together. If even one person makes a big mistake and gets a low score, the team score will be greatly reduced.
Photo = AFP Yonhap News
Photo = AFP Yonhap News
Biles was the first event in the final. As it is the main event, it opened with a high score of 14.900. Sunnisari, who paired Biles with the USA team, fluttered from the heresy parallel bars and the average. Biles was the last of the athletes to appear in the final round of floor workouts, earning 14.666 points to clinch the gold medal.
Women's tennis legend Serena Williams, actor Natalie Portman, and Biles' husband, Chicago Bears safety Jonathan Owens, cheered for Biles' gold medal.
