'I feel like anything rather than my best will tick me off,' she says, even though she wins handily. For Simon Biles, first place is pretty much a given. But she's still running new routines, mastering new moves and pushing the boundaries of gymnastics.
To watch Simone Biles soar so high off the vault table that she nearly kisses the sky, twisting and flipping an absurd number of times before gravity peevishly reclaims her, is to wonder if your eyes truly saw things your brain insists can’t possibly have happened.She is a five-time Olympic medalist and owner of more gold medals at the world championships and total world medals than any other gymnast, feats that would secure her legacy without question.
“I think that when somebody’s striving for perfection and doing harder skills, it pushes other athletes to know that it’s possible and that they can do it, too,” she said after she won the all-around title at the U.S. Olympic trials and affirmed her berth on the Tokyo team. “She’s like a rocket shot to the moon on vault,” said Kathy Johnson Clarke, who was captain of the 1980 and 1984 U.S. women’s Olympic gymnastics teams and a double medalist at the Los Angeles Games.
“With the high level of difficulty that she can perform with ease, she has basically made herself unbeatable. She enters nearly every meet with two to three points more in difficulty than everyone else. In a way, she’s a perfect gymnast for the perfect time because there’s a premium right now in the scoring on difficulty.”
Fans might not understand how she does it but they’re drawn to her fearlessness and they love the drama of guessing which daring move she’ll come up with next. Squealing kids in the stands want to be her. Their parents see a strong, accomplished woman and worthy role model. It doesn’t take a gymnastics expert to recognize a unique artist whose performances should be cherished.
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