Simone Biles has further cemented her legacy as one of the greatest gymnasts of all time after she took home the gold medal in the women’s vault final on Saturday, marking her third gold medal of the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Biles is just the second woman in Olympic history to win the vault twice, having claimed top of the podium at the 2016 Summer Games in Rio.
Biles entered the final with the highest qualifying score of 15.800, more than half a point higher than her fiercest competitor, Rebeca Andrade of Brazil.
She nailed the difficult Yurchenko double pike vault – a complex and difficult vault named after her in 2023 after she became the first female gymnast to land it during international competition – in her first vault, earning her a score of 15.700.
She then immediately followed that up with a less difficult vault for a 14.900 score, making her average score 15.300 to give her the lead.
Biles is already off to a memorable start in the Paris Games.
She won gold in the women’s gymnastics all-around team final earlier this week, to move past Shannon Miller for the most Olympic medals than any other American gymnast with eight total.
But on Thursday, Biles went for more hardware in the women’s individual all-around clinching her sixth gold medal with a dazzling floor exercise routine.
After her political joust at Donald J Trump on social media, I have lost all respect for her. I applaud her talent and think she should keep her mouth quiet on politics, her life knows NOTHING about the typical blue-collar worker in the USA over the last 12 years w/3 different Presidents and the rollercoaster ride our economy & policies have been on.
Congratulations to ALL US Olympians for attending the Games and tolerating the worst run Olympics in History. I hope a thorough investigation is done and reports are spread far & wide to SHOW what damages the continually proposed Green New Deal, Environmental Friendly Nonsense, Vegan Diets, LGBTQ, Trans-Ideology, Leftist/Marxism, etc had on the athletes, the attendees, the games overall, number of viewers, advertisements pulled, etc. and how well ALL of those unnecessary “progressive” work out as they try to revamp those massive buildings & facilities into some other purpose. It’s laughable that the next Summer Games will be held in all places – California USA.
Well said !! So called movie stars, musicians, and athletes do not have a clue what it’s like to be an average person struggling everyday to make ends meet while dealing with all the BS you have mentioned. UGH California that should be a shit show for sure .
I had no idea summer games will be held in CA. The athletes should be in great shape as they run from all of the criminals trying to assault them.