Simone Biles is going home with another gold medal after claiming the top spot on the podium in the women’s gymnastics all-around final on Thursday night, becoming the oldest all-around champion since 1952.
Biles, 27, stole the show early on with the Yurchenko double pike vault – a complex and difficult vault renamed after the American gymnast in 2023 after she became the first female to land it during international competition. She scored a high of 15.7666.
Simone Biles of Team United States competes in the floor exercise during the Artistic Gymnastics Women’s All-Around Final on day six of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at Bercy Arena on August 01, 2024 in Paris, France. (Naomi Baker/Getty Images)
A slight slip-up on the uneven bars wasn’t enough to derail her campaign for gold, and a solid 14.566 on the balance beam put her back on top. Biles entered the final rotation with a narrow lead over Brazil’s Rebeca Andrade: a margin of just 0.166 points.
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But Biles pulled off a near perfect floor exercise routine, scoring a high of 15.066. With her sixth gold medal and ninth overall medal, no other gymnast has won more than Biles.
She is also now the oldest to win the women’s all-round since Maria Gorokhovskaya did so at the 1952 Helsinki Games at age 30.
USA’s Simone Biles celebrates winning the gold medal following the Women’s All-Around Final at the Bercy Arena on the sixth day of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games in France. Picture date: Thursday August 1, 2024. (Mike Egerton/PA Images via Getty Images)
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Biles’ comeback follows a difficult journey at the 2020 Tokyo Games where she withdrew from the all-around final after suffering a bad case of the twisties. As she focused on her mental health, Team USA teammate Suni Lee was propelled to the top, winning gold in that event.
Lee clinched a bronze medal after securing a score of 13.535 on the floor exercise routine.
Simone Biles (L) and Sunisa Lee of the United States celebrate after winning respectively the gold and bronze medal at the end of the artistic gymnastics women’s all around final of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the Bercy Arena in Paris, on August 1, 2024. (GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP via Getty Images)
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Biles and Lee continued to add to their resume after winning gold in the women’s team final on Tuesday.
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