By Associated Press
Simone Biles tried to treat the Rio Olympics like
just your average ordinary gymnastics meet. So what if the stage and the
stakes were different?
The floor was still the floor. The vault still the vault. The uneven
bars still uneven. The balance beam still a four-inch wide test of
nerves.
And the 19-year-old with the electric smile and boundless talent was still the best in the world. Maybe the best of all-time.
Over the course of 10 days in August, the biggest meet of her life
ended like pretty much all the others in the four years that came before
it: with Biles standing atop the podium, a gold medal around her neck
and the sport she’s redefining one boundary-pushing routine at a time
staring up at her. Not that she remembers any of it.
“It’s kind of a blur,” Biles said.
Maybe to Biles, but not to the rest of the world. Her massive haul in
Rio de Janeiro — a record-tying four golds to go along with a bronze for
the dominant U.S. women’s team — propelled her to stardom and rendered
her last name superfluous. Now there’s one more honor to add to what on
Twitter is known simply as #SimoneThings: Associated Press Female
Athlete of the Year.
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Source: NBC News
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