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nitpicker

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Fri Oct 11, 2019, 07:42 AM Oct 2019

Simone Biles reigns supreme with fifth world all-around gymnastics title

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/oct/10/simone-biles-reigns-supreme-with-fifth-world-all-around-gymnastics-title

Simone Biles reigns supreme with fifth world all-around gymnastics title

Tumaini Carayol

Thu 10 Oct 2019 18.08 BST Last modified on Thu 10 Oct 2019 20.30 BST

Simone Biles continued to stake her claim as one of the most dominant athletes of her generation as she bulldozed all competition to win her fifth world championships individual all‑around gold medal with a score of 58.999 in Stuttgart. The 22-year-old American won with a cushion of 2.1 points, her biggest at a world all-around event, as Tang Xijing of China claimed silver and Russia’s Angelina Melnikova took bronze.

“It means the world to me,” Biles said. “For my fifth, that’s kind of unheard of, so it was really exciting. But we finished strong and we gave it our all. It’s super exciting we had the opportunity to do this.”

One year ago Biles fell twice in the all-around final and left the arena seething despite her clear victory. She seems to have learned from those mistakes. Instead of opting for all of the risky, mind-blowing skills she has written into gymnastics history in the past two years, she decided to play things relatively safe. The greatest measure of Biles’s dominance is that her version of “safe” is still far beyond what any of her rivals could dream of.
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Simone Biles reigns supreme with fifth world all-around gymnastics title (Original Post) nitpicker Oct 2019 OP
She is one amazing bundle of super energy, grace, speed and power. lark Oct 2019 #1
Unfair rating but my god she has superhuman grace and power lostnfound Oct 2019 #2

lark

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1. She is one amazing bundle of super energy, grace, speed and power.
Fri Oct 11, 2019, 09:25 AM
Oct 2019

She's so amazingly spectacular, she's almost super human.

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