Simone Biles won the all-around gymnastics title for her second Olympic gold in Paris and her sixth complete to cement her place back at the top of her sport with yet another sparkling slice of history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The American, who won the title at Rio 2016 and had been preferred at Tokyo 2020 before she pulled out, became the oldest winner of her sport\u2019s blue-riband event for 72 years in front of yet another celebrity-studded crowd at the Bercy Arena.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Brazil\u2019s Rebeca Andrade took silver and defending champion Sunisa Lee won bronze.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Biles put on a sparkly goat necklace while celebrating – as if there was any doubt about the world\u2019s most ornamented gymnast\u2019s status as the GOAT (greatest of all time).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Aged 27, she is the first gymnast to win non-consecutive all-around Olympic titles – a real demonstration of her longevity in a gruelling sport dominated by teenagers over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The past 12 Olympic all-around women\u2019s champions were teenagers, and even the last non-teen, Ludmilla Tourischeva, had only turned 20 a few weeks before she gained in 1972.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Biles\u2019 intention was clear from the outset, initial off with her \u2018Biles II\u2019 vault – the hardest in women\u2019s gymnastics – and it proved a good decision as she needed that extra buffer of points when she then made an uncharacteristic mistake on the rough bars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She was second behind Andrade after two rotations but then pulled off a difficulty-packed beam routine, fighting off gravity a couple of times to stay on the 10cm-wide apparatus, to score 14.566 and bring the crowd to their feet as she went back to the top of the standings.
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