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San José (United States) (AFP) - Simone Biles dazzled on floor exercise Sunday on the way to a record eighth all-around title at the US Gymnastics Championships, another step on a comeback trail pointing toward the Paris Olympics. The four-time Olympic gold medallist electrified the SAP Center crowd with a soaring floor routine that included a rock-solid landing on her signature Biles I tumbling pass of double layout with a half-twist. It was her final event of the competition and brought ecstatic fans to their feet, earning a score of 15.400 for a triumphant all-around total of 118.450 points...
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Paris (AFP) - American gymnastics superstar Simone Biles's legacy may not be the four Olympic gold medals she won in her career but a remarkable meltdown at the Tokyo Olympics which sparked other sports greats to speak out about their battle with mental health issues. Biles's attack of the twisties -- a condition meaning gymnasts lose the ability to orientate themselves in mid-air -- is perhaps the most abiding image of the Games. Since then, retired French football icon Thierry Henry and Irish rugby great Keith Earls have spoken frankly about their problems. Biles's travails followed Japan's ...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - US gymnastics icon Simone Biles said on Monday she should have quit "way before Tokyo" but held onto her Olympic dream even though it took a heavy emotional toll on her well-being. The 24-year-old Biles was expected to dominate at the Tokyo Games but instead caused a sensation by pulling out of the opening event of the women's gymnastics competition after being plagued by an attack of the "twisties". "If you look at everything I have gone through the past seven years," Biles told New York Magazine in an interview released Monday. "I should have never made another Olympic te...
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Tokyo (AFP) - Simone Biles abandoned the defence of her individual all-around Olympic crown on Wednesday, a day after her shock withdrawal from the women's team final over mental health concerns. As a worldwide outpouring of support for the troubled US gymnastics superstar grew, a statement from USA Gymnastics confirmed that Biles would not take part in Thursday's all-around final. The 24-year-old 2016 Olympic all-around gold medallist's participation in the four individual event finals starting on Sunday will be decided after further evaluation, USAG said. "Simone Biles has withdrawn from th...
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Tokyo (AFP) - Win or lose, Simone Biles has already claimed a slice of history at the Tokyo Olympics. The reigning all-around champion -- long-regarded as the greatest gymnast of all time -- has become the first athlete to be awarded their own emoji on Twitter. The social media platform announced Wednesday that it had given Biles her own emoji -- a goat wearing a leotard and a gold medal. The symbol is a reference to Biles' status as the "G.O.A.T: Greatest of all time" -- a tag the 24-year-old Olympian has embraced in recent years. "Witness greatness. Tweet with greatness," the official Twitte...
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