Simone Biles Reclaims All-Round Crown For Sixth Olympic Gold

Simone Biles recaptured the Olympic all-around crown on Thursday, seeing off Brazil’s Rebeca Andrade for her sixth Olympic gold and second in Paris. Biles, who famously withdrew from a number of occasions on the Tokyo Video games three years in the past with the disorientating “twisties”, adopted up her group gold with america earlier this week. Defending Olympic champion Sunisa Lee took bronze. The 27-year-old Biles grew to become the primary gymnast to reclaim the person title, which she received within the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Video games.

She capped her efficiency with one other electrifying flooring routine to Taylor Swift’s hit music “Prepared for It”, her high-flying tumbling bringing the group to its ft.

She scored 59.131 factors to complete 1.199 forward of Andrade with 21-year-old Lee sealing bronze together with her flooring routine having trailed in fourth going into the ultimate rotation. It was the primary time that two girls’s Olympic all-around champions have gone head-to-head chasing a second crown.

The US have now received the occasion six occasions in a row — and a report seven occasions general. Biles has now received 9 Olympic medals together with six golds.

She may add three extra in Paris as she competes within the equipment finals on the vault, flooring train and steadiness beam.