Simone Biles wins record seventh national women’s all-around title
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Gymnastics star and world champion Simone Biles took home her record seventh national women’s all-around title at the US Gymnastics Championships in Fort Worth, Texas, on Sunday.
Biles won her seventh all-around U.S. Gymnastics Championships title on Sunday with an overall score of 119.950, which gives her the most wins at the event by any woman in American history.
Biles surpassed Clara Schroth Lomady’s previous record of six titles with her win. She’s now tied with Alfred Jochim for the most by any American, man or woman, and has won every title but once since she first entered back in 2013.
The 🐐 does it again!@Simone_Biles now holds 7 Senior Women’s All-Around national championships, the most of all time! #USGymChamps pic.twitter.com/6XQ9KEJsDF
— USA Gymnastics (@USAGym) June 7, 2021
She beat runner-up Sunisa Lee by nearly five full points. Jordan Chiles came in third just 0.500 points back from Lee. Emma Malabuyo and Leanne Wong rounded out the top five.
“It’s really emotional, especially going into my second time doing an Olympic run,” she said on NBC. “It’s really crazy.”
Biles held the top scores in the vault, balance beam and floor exercise throughout the event, and took third in the uneven bars.
And THAT’S how you do it.@Simone_Biles starts off the night with a spectacular routine on beam. #USGymChamps pic.twitter.com/FnsJzN0mTW
— #TokyoOlympics (@NBCOlympics) June 6, 2021
The HEIGHT on Simone’s second vault. 🤯@Simone_Biles // #USGymChamps pic.twitter.com/1GdXzM1388
— #TokyoOlympics (@NBCOlympics) June 7, 2021
.@Simone_Biles is now a 7️⃣-time U.S. all-around CHAMPION! 👑 #USGymChamps pic.twitter.com/Lo3HjNXz5v
— #TokyoOlympics (@NBCOlympics) June 7, 2021
The 24-year-old is clearly gearing up for the Olympics, too, as her floor routine was set to a song from “Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift” — which included an incredible “never-been-done-before” move dubbed “The Biles.”
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Simone Biles toned it down. Shaking off a somewhat sloppy start Friday, at least by her impeccable standards, Biles put on a four-rotation showcase that highlighted why a GOAT emblem — a nod to her status as the Greatest Of All Time — has become a fixture on her competition leotard. Biles’ all-around score on Sunday of 60.100 was her highest since 2018 and served notice she is only getting better with the Tokyo Games less than seven weeks away.
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Simone Biles is at the top of her game and it seems no one is more excited about that than her boyfriend, NFL star Jonathan Owens. According to reports, Sunday, the four-time Olympic gold medalist broke a record by winning her seventh national women’s all-around title at the US Gymnastics Championships in Fort Worth, Texas. The 24-year-old won with a score of 119.650 which was 4.7 points ahead of runner-up Sunisa Lee and is expected to be an incredibly vital member of the USA Women’s Gymnastics team for this summer’s Tokyo Olympics.
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On Sunday, Biles became the first woman ever to win seven U.S. championship titles
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Simone Biles
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Biles at the 2016 Summer Olympics
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| Personal information | |
| Full name | Simone Arianne Biles |
| Born | March 14, 1997 (age 24)[1] Columbus, Ohio, U.S. |
| Hometown | Spring, Texas, U.S. |
| Residence | Spring, Texas, U.S. |
| Height | 4 ft 8 in (142 cm)[2] |
| Discipline | Women’s artistic gymnastics |
| Level | Senior international elite |
| Years on national team | 2012–2016, 2018–present (US) |
| Gym | World Champions Centre (current)[3] Bannon’s Gymnastix Inc. (2003–2014) |
| Head coach(es) | Laurent Landi |
| Former coach(es) | Aimee Boorman |
| Choreographer | Dominic Zito |
| Eponymous skills | Biles (6.4) (vault): Yurchenko half-on, front layout salto with double twist off Biles (H) (balance beam): double twisting double tucked salto dismount Biles I (G) (floor exercise): double layout half out Biles II (J) (floor exercise): triple twisting double tucked salto |
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Simone Arianne Biles (born March 14, 1997) is an American artistic gymnast. With a combined total of 30 Olympic and World Championship medals, Biles is the most decorated American gymnast and the world’s third most decorated gymnast, behind Belarus’ Vitaly Scherbo (33 medals) and Russia’s Larisa Latynina (32 medals).
At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Biles won individual gold medals in all-around, vault and floor; bronze in balance beam; and gold as part of the United States team, dubbed the “Final Five“.
Biles is a five-time World all-around champion (2013–2015, 2018–19), five-time World floor exercise champion (2013–2015, 2018–19), three-time World balance beam champion (2014–15, 2019), two-time World vault champion (2018–19), a seven-time United States national all-around champion (2013–2016, 2018–19, 2021), and a member of the gold medal-winning American teams at the 2014, 2015, 2018, and 2019 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. Additionally, she is a three-time World silver medalist (2013 and 2014 on vault, 2018 on uneven bars) and a three-time World bronze medalist (2015 on vault, 2013 and 2018 on balance beam).
Biles is the gymnast with the most World medals (25) and most World gold medals (19), having surpassed Scherbo’s record 23 World medals by winning her 24th and 25th, both gold, at the 2019 competition in Stuttgart. She is the female gymnast with the most World all-around titles (5). Biles is the sixth woman to win an individual all-around title at both the World Championships and the Olympics, and the first gymnast since Lilia Podkopayeva in 1996 to hold both titles simultaneously. She is the tenth female gymnast and first American female gymnast to win a World medal on every event, and the first female gymnast since Daniela Silivaș in 1988 to win a medal on every event at a single Olympic Games or World Championships, having accomplished this feat at the 2018 World Championships in Doha.
Simone Biles, queen of the mat, making history, enemies
As the debate over the Tokyo Olympics continues to heat up, one athlete eyeing her last Team USA appearance among the nations is making global headlines all on her own.
Simone Biles, the Black Catholic of the Beams, made history this week in the course of winning the U.S. Classic competition in Indianapolis.
There, she performed a vault so dangerous—and flawless—that judges gave her a lower score, on account of the move being banned in competition.
The Yurchenko Double Pike, a springboard-aided roundoff into a double backflip from a vaulting table, had never even been attempted in competition before Biles’ successful landing on Saturday.
I’m sorry but I can’t believe I competed a double pike on vault
— Simone Biles (@Simone_Biles) May 25, 2021
It remains one of the most feared in the sport.
Due to the YDP’s difficulty, those governing gymnastics for the athletes of the world long ago decided it was not something they would honor on the scoreboard, something Biles admits that she knew going in.
“I feel like now we just have to get what we get because there’s no point in putting up a fight because they’re not going to reward it,” Biles told the New York Times.
However, she also notes that it’s unfair for her to be penalized for pulling it off, noting that “[judges] don’t want the field to be too far apart… That’s not on me.”
Unsurprisingly, commentators have noted the racial optics of the ordeal as it unfolds in the public eye. Also of note is that Biles isn’t the first Black athlete in recent history to be penalized for greatness.
Some have cited Caster Semenya on this point, but the more obvious and comparable analogy is to Surya Bonaly, the French figure skater from the 1990s once known as one of the few athletes capable of landing a full-on backflip on the ice with a one-footed landing—another move banned by international officials.
Even so, Bonaly continued to perform the move in competition—including at the Olympics—with the docked scores to show for it.
Her legacy as an athlete, especially a Black female one willing to break barriers and push boundaries despite backlash, has remained of note in many circles ever since.
Now, as Biles, almost indisputably the best gymnast on earth—with the apparel to prove it—seeks to cap off her career with gold hardware in Japan, it remains to be seen whether she will continue to test her luck with judges in pursuit of equality as well.
