Biles, who hasn’t lost an all-around competition in more than a decade, gave herself a bit of work to do after a major mistake on uneven bars, which left her sitting third at the midway point behind both Andrade and Kaylia Nemour of Algeria.
But she responded by hitting a big routine on the sport’s trickiest apparatus, balance beam, and then put the competition to bed with a typically brilliant performance on floor.
“I’m getting uncomfortable guys!” says of how close she was to Andrade. “I was stressing. But I knew if I did my work it’d all be fine.”
Biles has proven to be perhaps even more dominant upon her return last year. She cruised to the all-around world title last fall and has continued to push the boundaries of the sport with new skills, including her now-famous Yurchenko double pike vault – which helped carry her to gold Thursday night.
“It is crazy I am in the conversation of the greatest of all time,” Biles said. “I just think I’m still Simone Biles from Spring, Texas, who loves to flip.”
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