Simone Biles as soon as once more ascended to the top of gymnastics, main Group USA to gold on the girls’s staff gymnastics last on the 2024 Paris Olympics on Tuesday.
Biles is now probably the most embellished U.S. Olympic gymnast in historical past, with eight medals (5 of them gold) to her identify. The U.S. girls’s gymnastics staff — Biles, Sunisa “Suni” Lee, Jordan Chiles, Jade Carey and newcomer Hezly Rivera (who didn’t compete in Tuesday’s last) — at the moment are the fourth U.S. staff to win an Olympic gold medal.
After going through important challenges on the 2020 Summer time Olympics in Tokyo, together with a bout with the twisties that led to her withdrawal in the course of the competitors, Biles returned this yr with a mission to win gold, playfully calling Paris the staff’s “redemption” tour after they took residence silver in Tokyo.
It was a nail-biting victory on Tuesday. Regardless of a minor hiccup when Chiles fell off the steadiness beam, the staff’s spirits remained excessive. Lee shortly restored their momentum, and when Biles accomplished her beam routine, her husband, Jonathan Owens, who had flown in a single day to assist her, waved a U.S. flag in joyous celebration. The night time culminated with Biles’s signature ground routine, a efficiency that gave no trace of her earlier calf harm.
Biles competed in all 4 staff occasions — vault, uneven bars, steadiness beam and ground train. Whereas the victory marks her first gold medal on the 2024 Paris Olympic Video games, she may simply win as many as 4 extra when she competes Thursday within the particular person all-around last, the place her largest competitor is teammate Lee, who received the gold on the Tokyo Olympics.
This gold medal wasn’t only a win however a private victory for Biles. Check out Group USA’s victorious Olympic moments.
