Saturday, October 5, 2024

The Beauty of Sport, Part Seven: Simone Biles

Why is Simone Biles considered the greatest female gymnast of all time?


Maybe it's because she won 23 gold medals in the World Gymnastics Championships, six of them all-around medals and five of them team medals, the other twelve on various apparati, and because she won seven Olympic gold medals, two of them all-around and two of them team, with three apparatus medals.

Yeah, that must be it.


And she won three of those gold medals in Paris at the age of 27.  It is now truly "women's" gymnastics.

Oh yes, she's also married.  Football player Jonathan Owens of the Chicago Bears is the lucky guy. 

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