Simone squared: Gymnast Biles and swimmer Manuel both win Olympic gold

Biles ended up beating Raisman by 2.1 points; however, their wins marked only the second time that two USA gymnasts have finished 1-2 in an Olympic all-around. Her teammates, Aly Raisman and Gabby Douglas each have three gold medal across London and Rio.

Biles, who won the beam at the last two world championships, finished nearly a full point ahead of Wevers at the 2015 worlds.

Going last in the field of eight, she scored 15.966 for her two attempts. Biles, Hong, Giulia Steingruber (Switzerland) and Maria Pesaka (Russia) are favored for medals. Over the past week, she has achieved the highest scores in each of those disciplines in the qualifying, team and all-around competitions, and is looking to add those two golds to the three she has earned so far.

The American stood head and shoulders above all her rivals on Thursday after she was crowned Olympic all-around champion.

India’s Dipa Karmakar made history by being the first female gymnast from her country to compete in the Olympics and make an event final by finishing fourth.

“Biles owned the vault”. While she’s aware of her growing celebrity inside the athlete’s village, Biles and coach Aimee Boorman are trying to remain in the comfortable rhythm Biles and the rest of her “Final Five” teammates follow during any other meet. I’ve been with her since I was 7 years old, and we’ve done this journey together.

National Team Coordinator, Martha Karolyi, cried when she learned their teamname “The Final Five” is a tribute to her; she’s retiring this year.

Biles scored a 15.900 with an Amanar on her first vault before scoring a 16.033 on her Cheng. The United States earned its first medal of the men’s gymnastics competition on the apparatus, as Alexander Naddour took bronze.

Congratulations are in order: To Fiji, who just won its first-ever Olympic medal, a gold, in rugby.

“Every emotion hit me at once so I was just kind of a train wreck”, Biles said after scooping a second gold in Rio following her success in the team final on Tuesday. Also doing the Produnova, she almost landed it on her feet but her bottom crashed down onto the mat seconds later.

She spoke of the difficulty in being a rare black swimmer on the American team, how it has attracted positive attention but at the same time brought a burden.