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Related: About this forumSimone 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-titleSimone 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 Russias Angelina Melnikova took bronze.
It means the world to me, Biles said. For my fifth, thats kind of unheard of, so it was really exciting. But we finished strong and we gave it our all. Its 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 Biless 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
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lark
(23,006 posts)1. She is one amazing bundle of super energy, grace, speed and power.
She's so amazingly spectacular, she's almost super human.
lostnfound
(16,139 posts)2. Unfair rating but my god she has superhuman grace and power