Simone Biles could become the most decorated female Olympian of all time with five gold medals in Tokyo.
Already the most decorated gymnast in history, in her finalBiles is looking to become the first woman to win back-to-back gold medals in the individual all-around event since Věra Čáslavská of Czechoslovakia achieved the feat at the 1964 Games in Tokyo and the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City.Should Biles win the gold medal in all the five events she will be competing in
—four individual events plus the team competition—she will bring her Olympic gold medal tally to nine, one more than the all-time record for a U.S. female athlete, currently held by former swimmer Jenny Thompson. With nine Olympic golds, Biles would also equal the all-time record for gold medals by a female Olympian, which is currently held by former Soviet Union great Larisa Latynina. While Michael Phelps won eight gold medals in the same Olympics, no female U.S. Olympian has ever claimed gold medals at a single Games.Simone Biles of the United States during practice at the Ariake Gymnastics Centre in preparation for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games on July 22 in Tokyo, Japan.
To put her dominance into context, Biles hasn't lost a competition since the middle of 2013. In a sport where the margins are often wafer-thin and in the region of tenths if not hundredths of a point, she has often finished a full point or more clear of her rivals. Biles has also made a habit of repeatedly pushing what's possible by a female gymnast and has four routines named after her—the Biles 6.4 on the vault, the Biles H on the balance beam and the Biles I and the Biles II, which are both floor exercises.
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