‘I’m not the next Bolt or Phelps. I’m the first Simone Biles’

Which she nearly never does and rarely is.

Maria Paseka of Russian Federation averaged 15.253 for silver with Giulia Steingruber of Switzerland averaging 15.216 winning bronze.

Once Raisman realized she clinched the silver, she dissolved into tears.

With five Olympic medals, she is tied with Nastia Liukin and Mary Lou Retton as the second-most decorated American gymnasts of all time.

“Her coach, Mihai Brestyan, told her “‘just said ignore everyone, ‘” she said. She didn’t make an event final either, and she anxious Karolyi wouldn’t have her back at national team camps.

While Douglas hasn’t yet spoken out about her seemingly salty stare down during last night’s event, this isn’t the first controversy she’s faced – and it may not be the last. Here’s a look at Biles’s dominance since turning pro in 2013. The exception is Alex Naddour, a four-time national champion on the pommel horse who qualified in seventh place to the final.

“When she first entered the elite world we thought maybe you’ll make a World team and be a vault specialist and then she never won a gold on vault at Worlds”, said Boorman, the USA team coach in Rio.

After Thursday’s finals, the United States lead the table with 16 golds, as China and Japan were at second and third on 11 and 7 golds respectively. See what celebrities had to say about them both below. As tough as the course was, we still saw the first hole-in-one in Olympic history. “Everything was going through my head but mainly it was like I had finally done it and when that hits you, you can’t really stop the emotions”. “I felt every emotion at once”.

Naddour will face off against all three medalists from the 2015 World Championships: Great Britain’s Max Whitlock and Louis Smith and Armenia’s Harutyun Merdinyan. Billed as the heavy favorite heading into the women’s all-around gymnastics competition, she lived up to the hype.

“No one goes in thinking they can beat Simone”, Raisman said. To me, I’m still the same Simone.

With more likely to come.

The U.S. women’s Olympics gymnastics team said their historic win in the team all-around competition at the 2016 Rio Olympic games wasn’t a surprise.

It is the first World or Olympic gold on vault for the 19-year-old.

But those would only add to her legend. But she also shared the victory with a much broader group of people.