Simone Biles Wins Women's All-Around | The Odyssey Online
Start writing a post
Sports

Simone Biles Wins Women's All-Around

She's done it!

20
Simone Biles Wins Women's All-Around
Wikimedia

Last week, an NBC announcer questioned whether Simone Biles’ loving adoptive parents were her “real” parents.

But now, no one will question whether she is the greatest gymnast of all time. She has won three World Championships in a row, but, to be considered the greatest of all time, she had to win gymnastics’ cynosure prize: women’s Olympic All-Around. If she somehow choked in that competition, her ultimate dominance would be probably be questioned for the rest of her career.

But put that worry to rest. On Thursday, Simone Biles took home the Women's All Around title and her 11th gold medal.

Biles did get off to an atypically mediocre start. She actually was in second place after the second rotation (which is the uneven bars, Biles' weakest event). She scored a 15.866 on the vault which, for anyone else, is a fantastic score. For Biles though, who usually gets around a 16.000 on the vault, the score was a blow. She also scored a solid but unspectacular 14.966 on the uneven bars.

But this shaky start does not lend itself to fodder about Biles’ greatness. It, instead, proves her greatest. To be a great athlete is to have the moxie to compete at the highest level of excellence while under tremendous pressure.

And Biles did that.

On her last event, floor exercise, with the end result of the meet still in doubt, Biles performed her best. She obtained a whopping “15.933, the highest of the day on any apparatus” which allowed her to finish two points ahead of USA teammate Aly Raisman, who got the silver medal.

Report this Content
This article has not been reviewed by Odyssey HQ and solely reflects the ideas and opinions of the creator.
ross geller
YouTube

As college students, we are all familiar with the horror show that is course registration week. Whether you are an incoming freshman or selecting classes for your last semester, I am certain that you can relate to how traumatic this can be.

1. When course schedules are released and you have a conflict between two required classes.

Bonus points if it is more than two.

Keep Reading...Show less
Student Life

12 Things I Learned my Freshmen Year of College

When your capability of "adulting" is put to the test

2717
friends

Whether you're commuting or dorming, your first year of college is a huge adjustment. The transition from living with parents to being on my own was an experience I couldn't have even imagined- both a good and a bad thing. Here's a personal archive of a few of the things I learned after going away for the first time.

Keep Reading...Show less
Featured

Economic Benefits of Higher Wages

Nobody deserves to be living in poverty.

301859
Illistrated image of people crowded with banners to support a cause
StableDiffusion

Raising the minimum wage to a livable wage would not only benefit workers and their families, it would also have positive impacts on the economy and society. Studies have shown that by increasing the minimum wage, poverty and inequality can be reduced by enabling workers to meet their basic needs and reducing income disparities.

I come from a low-income family. A family, like many others in the United States, which has lived paycheck to paycheck. My family and other families in my community have been trying to make ends meet by living on the minimum wage. We are proof that it doesn't work.

Keep Reading...Show less
blank paper
Allena Tapia

As an English Major in college, I have a lot of writing and especially creative writing pieces that I work on throughout the semester and sometimes, I'll find it hard to get the motivation to type a few pages and the thought process that goes behind it. These are eleven thoughts that I have as a writer while writing my stories.

Keep Reading...Show less
April Ludgate

Every college student knows and understands the struggle of forcing themselves to continue to care about school. Between the piles of homework, the hours of studying and the painfully long lectures, the desire to dropout is something that is constantly weighing on each and every one of us, but the glimmer of hope at the end of the tunnel helps to keep us motivated. While we are somehow managing to stay enrolled and (semi) alert, that does not mean that our inner-demons aren't telling us otherwise, and who is better to explain inner-demons than the beloved April Ludgate herself? Because of her dark-spirit and lack of filter, April has successfully been able to describe the emotional roller-coaster that is college on at least 13 different occasions and here they are.

Keep Reading...Show less

Subscribe to Our Newsletter

Facebook Comments