Olympic gymnastics: Simone Biles takes gold in all-around, becomes first American gymnast to win twice (2024)

Lee didn't think she'd medal

Biles' margin of victory on Andrade was just over a point, the equivalent of a fall, but she said she felt unfamiliar levels of stress with Andrade hot on her heels.

“I don’t want to compete with Rebeca no more,” Biles said of her Brazilian rival, with a chuckle. “I’m tired. She’s way too close. I’ve never had an athlete that close, so it definitely put me on my toes and brought out the best athlete in myself.”

Lee said she has "never seen her so stressed." Biles was originally going to perform a safer vault, but decided she needed to "bring out the big guns" — her eponymous "Biles II" vault —to beat Andrade.

Biles has not announced her retirement from the sport, but added, “I’m gonna hand it to her now —she can have the rest.”

"Three years ago, I never thought I’d step foot on a gymnastics floor again just because of everything that had happened," Biles said after winning the all-around title.

She thanked her coaches, Cecile and Laurent Landi, as well as her therapist, who has been seeing her remotely to "make sure she is mentally well" while in Paris despite a significant time change.

When asked about her GOAT status, Biles said "it is crazy that I am in the conversation of greatest of all athletes."

She sported a necklace with a goat charm after winning today's gold, knowing "people will go crazy over it," shouting out both supporters and dissenters of the assertion that she is the greatest gymnast to ever do it.

Since winning her last gold medal in the individual all-around, Biles hasn't had the easiest go. She famously pulled out of the event, and a number of other event finals, in Tokyo after struggles with the "twisties."

After reclaiming her all-around title, Biles told "TODAY" host — and official Olympics gymnastics mom — Hoda Kotb "this one feels even better than the last."

"I am a lot more mature so I know what my body is capable of," said Biles, 27. She won her first all-around gold in Rio 2016 at the age of 19.

Biles admitted she was nervous ahead of today's meet and pointed to top competitor Andrade as the reason why.

“Rebeca is such an amazing competitor,” Biles said. “I am happy we have Rebeca out here.”

The U.S. men's gymnastics team has one more chance for some hardware, and it all comes down to the Internet's new favorite athlete — "Pommel horse guy" Stephen Nederoscik.

He'll ride the horse Saturday, and is strongly favored to bring home another medal.

Team USA’s women gymnasts will have to take the medals off their necks in the coming days so they can get back on the mat in the four individual event finals.

First up: vault. Simone Biles and Jade Carey will show their skills on the apparatus Saturday.

On Sunday, Suni Lee will be the sole representative for Team USA in the bars final.

The beam and floor finals will take place Monday. Biles and Lee will compete on beam, and Biles and Jordan Chiles will compete on floor.

Despite a few mid-routine wobbles, Lee persevered for a clean finish on the beam at the women’s all-around final.

Biles is the oldest women’s Olympic all-around champion since Maria Gorokhovskaya, who was the first woman to ever win the title in 1952.

For decades, women's gymnastics was dominated by teenagers. At 27, Biles is a testament to the fact that physical and emotional maturity, experience and other markers of adulthood can lead to the highest echelon of success.

Defending all-around Olympic champion Lee dazzled with her uneven bars routine as she chased a second consecutive medal in the women’s all-around gymnastics event.

Brazilians are elated after Andrade secured the silver medal. The São Paulo native is the only athlete who came close to challenging Biles for the gold.

Gymnastics has been a highlight for the country in Paris, especially after the men’s soccer team failed to qualify and following a disappointing loss from the women’s soccer team to Spain yesterday, which included a red card for superstar player Marta.

Messages have poured in since the women's gymnastics team took home a bronze medal earlier this week, including one from President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

“You are the pride of our country,” Lula tweeted in Portuguese.

Three years after the "twisties" threatened to end her career, Biles has made one of the most transcendent Olympic comebacks in history.

She's back on top of the Olympic all-around podium and is the first gymnast to win the title at two non-consecutive Olympics.

After making her third Olympic team, Biles called Paris a “redemption tour."

“I feel like we all have more to give and our Tokyo performances weren’t the best,” Bilessaid at the Olympic trials in Minneapolis. “We weren’t under the best circ*mstances, either, but I feel like we have a lot of weight on our shoulders to go out there and prove that we’re better athletes.”

She's long been considered the GOAT, but this gold is made of grit.

While Biles was the favorite to win the gold today, after a mistake on the bars, it was unclear whether she would clinch it. But after bouncing back on beam and floor, she beat out silver-medalist Andrade by a 1.100 margin.

In Tuesday's team final, Andrade only trailed Biles by 0.366 points in the all-around. Today, she wasn't able to close that gap further.

It hasn't always been this close. Before today's win, Team USA had won the individual all-around in the last five Games, sometimes by just a thin margin and sometimes by more than a full point.

Here's a look-back at those scoring margins.

2004: Carly Patterson by .176 over Svetlana Khorkina

2008: Nastia Liukin by .6 over Shawn Johnson

2012: Gabby Douglas by .259 over Viktoria Komova

2016: Biles by 2.1 over Aly Raisman (this was the largest women’s margin of victory ever in the post-2008 Code of Points era)

2021: Lee by.135 over Andrade

At this point, setting records is what Biles does best.

With her gold medal finish in the all-around final, she becomes the first American gymnast to ever win the event twice.

She got her first gold in Rio 2016, and pulled out of the all-around final in Tokyo 2020 due to the "twisties." Her teammate, Lee, took the gold title in those games.

Biles is also the oldest to win the gold in the event since 1952.

Larisa Latynina of the Soviet Union and Věra Čáslavská of Czechoslovakia are the only other gymnasts to have won the all-around twice. They both last competed in the 1960s.

If Biles returns to L.A. 2028, she could break the record for most golds won ever in the individual all-around. But for now, that remains an if.

She's the GOAT for a reason, and she's had the comeback of the century.

For the second time in her career, Biles is the gold medalist in the women's gymnastics individual all-around final, making her the only American to achieve this feat twice.

Andrade followed Biles with the silver, and Lee took bronze. Today's top three mirror the standings after qualifiers.

Italy's D'Amato was .1 point away from a medal and placed fourth. Algeria's Kaylia Nemour, expected to medal in the bars final, followed in fifth.

Biles cemented her gold by performing the world’s most difficult floor routine, set to “...Ready For It?” by Taylor Swift, earning a 15.066.

Andrade will be back on the podium as well.

Despite one step out of bounds (the same mistake that cost her the gold in Tokyo), the reigning silver medalist is guaranteed a medal in the Paris all-around.

The Brazilian breakout star showed off a hit routine to the tune of Beyoncé and scored a 14.033.

One more routine will secure the final standings: Biles on floor.

The reigning all-around champ just finished up the event final for the second time in her career.

She needed to give the best floor routine of her career (with a score of at least 13.535) to pull ahead of D'Amato and get into bronze medal position.

She scored a 13.666, which guarantees her another Olympic all-around medal, following up her gold in Tokyo on the same event.

Lee flashed a huge smile after she stuck her first tumbling pass, an indicator of what was to come.

The Algerian superstar will likely finish off the podium after scoring a 13.100on floor.

She trails Italy's D'Amato with Lee, Biles and Andrade left to go.

Italy's Esposito fell to her knees after a tumbling pass on her last event — floor.

It's her second fall of the day. She fell off the bars in her second rotation.

The gymnasts in third through fifth currently are all within a tenth of each other heading into the final rotation.

Lee, D'Amato and Nemour are all in the running for bronze.

Biles leads the way heading into last rotation, where she and the top contenders will take the floor. She's the reigning world champion there and has the highest potential score.

If she does what she is capable of, she will win her second Olympic all-around gold medal.

These women have just one more chance to prove they're worthy of a medal.

After three rotations, here is who would be topping the podium:

1. Simone Biles (USA)
2. Rebeca Andrade (Brazil)
3. Alice D'Amato (Italy)

Aside from a few wobbles, Andrade survived perhaps the trickiest apparatus of the day. She scored a 14.133, placing her in second after three rotations.

You could hear her top competitor, Biles, cheering her on during the event. The two hugged after she dismounted.

Andrade needed higher than a 14.299 on beam to pull ahead of Biles again, but couldn't quite pull it off.

Now, these top two competitors will leave it all on the floor.

Biles performed a Yurchenko double pike vault in the opening round of today's all-around final, astonishing fans in Paris as she chases a sixth Olympic gold medal.

In an echo of theopening ceremony, where “Moulin Rouge” dancers performed the iconic cancan dance, Brazil’s Saraiva did her floor routine to the classic French cabaret tune. She's the reigning world bronze medalist on the event.

Despite her artistic excellence, Saraiva faltered on a tumbling pass, earning a 12.233.

It wasn't her most secure routine, but Lee stayed on the beam. She had a few wobbles and broken connections, including one on her iconic ring leap, where she arches her back and loses sight of the beam.

She earned a slightly lower score in Tuesday's team final, but a 14.000 today is nothing to sneer at.

That will keep her in the race for the podium.

Andrade stuns with a Cheng vault in the opening rotation of today's all-around finals as she pushes for an individual all-around Olympic medal to join the bronze medal she won with Brazil in the team final.

Biles really needed to hit her beam routine, and she did. She is the reigning champ on the event, after all.

A score of 14.566 brought her right back to the front of the pack after a below-average bars routine with a big mistake, which had the GOAT in third after the first two rotations.

Her switch leap entrance was perfect, setting her up for a routine with few mistakes.

Now, she can relax, with only floor between her and another gold medal.

Aimee Boorman, who was Biles' first coach and saw her through the 2016 Rio Olympics, said they were always playing the long game.

"There are people just as talented as Simone, with the same physique, with the same drive as Simone, and they burnt out because it was too much too fast," Boorman said. Perfecting pacing, mental preparation and "having a balanced life" outside the sport helped turn potential greatness into the real thing.

“I think of so many girls that were originally competing with Simone and becoming age-eligible the same years that she did kind of burning out,” Boorman said.

“To watch her still in the sport is so amazing," she added. "We're actually seeing changes in the image of what an elite gymnast looks like.”

Despite occupying the bronze medal position after the second rotation, Biles will retain a difficulty advantage heading into beam and floor.

She is the reigning world champion on both events. If Biles competes to her potential, she will win gold.

First, she has to stay on the beam.

Two rotations down, two rotations to go.

Currently, at the top of the leaderboard:

1. Rebeca Andrade (Brazil)
2. Kaylia Nemour (Algeria)
3. Simone Biles (USA)

Biles and Lee — along with Andrade — head to the ever-difficult beam next.

Despite a tenuous handstand, Algeria's Nemour earned a 15.533 on bars, launching her into second place above Biles.

It's the highest bars score we will see all day. If she repeats it in the bars final, she will claim the gold.

It's Flavia Saraiva's best event, but she doesn't always hit it.

For instance, she fell off the beam in qualifiers and won't perform in the individual event final, despite posting a high 14.266 today. She's second on the event behind China's Qiu Qiyuan today.

You might remember Saraiva from Tuesday as the woman with the black eye who helped Brazil clinch bronze. She fell off the bars in warmups and kneed herself in the face.

For the third time at these Games, Lee put together a fabulous routine on the uneven bars after falling hard on her daring opening skill, a Nabieva, in warmups. She did a slightly more conservative routine, but still earned an enormous 14.866.

The crowd in Bercy Arena roared as she stuck the full-twisting double back flip dismount. Bars is one of her best events, along with the balance beam, which she will do next.

The stars aren't only on the mat. They're also in the stands.

Steph Curry, Martha Stewart, Zinedine Zidane, Tony Hawk, Bob Costas, Cris Collinsworth, Al Michaels and Seth Rogen are cheering on the female gymnasts at the Bercy Arena in Paris today.

Perhaps the biggest stars in the crowd are the other three members of this gold medal gymnastics team — Jade Carey, Jordan Chiles and Hezly Rivera.

After helping her team clinch silver in the team event, Italy's Manila Esposito fell off the bars in the individual all-around.

She quickly regrouped and finished her routine, posting a score of 12.800.

Her teammate, Alice D'Amato, performed a much stronger bars routine —a score of 14.800 — and is at the top of the pack after two rotations. She is expected to contend for bronze today.

The balance beam is only 4 inches wide, about the length of an iPhone.

The top contenders have yet to tackle the apparatus, so nothing is set in stone.

Biles had a major form break in the second rotation. She bent her legs on a transition from the high bar to the low, which is called a Pak salto. Staying on the bar after that is an accomplishment.

She received a sizable deduction, earning a 13.733, putting her behind Andrade as they head to the balance beam. Biles skipped the original skill she could have debuted on this event.

Andrade made it clear she's coming for Biles' expected gold with a gorgeous bars routine, hitting her handstands and almost sticking her landing with a smile.

Biles will have to beat her 14.666 on bars to pull ahead again. If Andrade had put up that score in qualifiers, she would have made the bars final.

After the first rotation, the current standings are:

1. Simone Biles (USA)
2. Rebeca Andrade (Brazil)
3. Elsabeth Black (Canada)

Don't pay too much attention to where everyone stands right now, though. These gymnasts each have three more chances to prove they're worthy of a gold medal.

Paris is Ellie Black's fourth Olympic Games and she is far and away the most successful Canadian gymnast of all time.

Black has become a constant in a sport known for injuries and short careers. She has yet to win an Olympic medal, but she'll have a chance today and again in the vault final Saturday.

She is in third place after the first rotation, behind Andrade and Biles.

Biles’ name is already etched in gymnastics history books, but it could soon make an appearance on every apparatus.

She is poised to debut an original skill in Paris, a Weiler 1.5 on bars. Unless someone drops out of the bars final and Biles makes it in as the alternate, today's all-around final will be her last chance to do it.

No other gymnast currently has a skill named after them on every event.

Biles will compete on bars in the second rotation.

Kaylia Nemour's best event, the uneven bars, will come in the next rotation, but she is a true all-around gymnast.

She debuted a double-twisting Yurchenko on vault at these Games and hit it beautifully today. A step back will be the sole major deduction and her scores have the capacity to accelerate from here.

Biles' namesake vault, the Biles II —a Yurchenko double pike — is a risky endeavor, but is accordingly valuable.

Nobody else is capable of touching the 15.766 she posted in the first rotation. She'll put more than half a point of buffer between her and Andrade.

China's Qiu Qiyuan fell on her bars routine to start off her all-around.

It's her best event, and she's set to compete in the individual event final.

She is in contention for the bronze today, but needed to be perfect on her best event to stay in the running. Only time — and three more events — will prove if she can pull it off.

Luisa Blanco, 22, makes history for Colombia today. She is the first gymnast in the country's history to reach an Olympic final.

Blanco is Colombian American. She was born and raised in Dallas, and her mother is Colombian.

After a two-year stint in American elite gymnastics, Blanco retired in 2019. She competed for the University of Alabama, where she became an NCAA champion.

In 2023, she decided to switch nationalities to compete for Colombia. She trained under Suni Lee's coach and qualified for the 2024 Olympic Games.

After finishing 24th in the all-around after applying the "two per country" rule, Blanco became the first Colombian artistic gymnast to reach an Olympic final.

Rebeca Andrade is off to an excellent start with a flawless Cheng, earning a 15.100.

She has shared her intention to become the first woman to successfully perform a triple-twisting Yurchenko in competition, but that will have to wait for vault finals, it seems.

First up on the first rotation of the day, Lee showed us why she is the reigning all-around champion.

A small hop on the landing didn't deter her, a big smile on her face as she landed.

A score of 13.933 is enough to keep her in the contest, especially given that vault is her weakest event.

Lee opted for a blue-and-red ombre leotard for the all-around final today, dubbed the USA Elegance Competition Leotard, and Biles chose to wear a mostly blue sparkly leotard, called the Luminous Legacy Competition Leotard.

We've only seen Lee and Biles in matching fits so far this Games, but that's because for the team events, teams are required to all wear the same leotard when they compete.

For the individual events, on the other hand, members of the same team can choose to shake it up and wear whichever leo suits their vibe for the day.

Andrade is going for gold in her yellow leotard, and Canada looks ready to rock in their Lululemon leotards.

And we're live! It's officially go time for Biles and Lee, who will face off against each other — and the 22 other top gymnasts — for the gold in the individual all-around final.

The real showdown will be between Biles and Andrade, who will be battling for the top spot in today's meet.

Both Biles and Lee will compete in what some call "Olympic order" today: vault, bars, beam, floor.

It's the same order they competed in alongside teammates Jade Carey and Jordan Chiles in the team final on Tuesday.

If all three perform to their potential, the final podium is expected to reflect the qualifying standings: Biles, Rebeca Andrade, then Lee.

Algerian uneven bars phenom Kaylia Nemour, Italy’s Alice D’Amato and China’s Qiu Qiyuan have the scoring potential to upset Lee for the bronze, but Biles and Andrade have a leg up on the rest of the field.

Remember, the balance beam is only 4 inches wide, so until the gymnasts have conquered that beast, nothing is guaranteed.

Tuesday's women's team final was star-studded, with Natalie Portman, Serena Williams, Nadia Comăneci, Michael Phelps, Spike Lee and Nicole Kidman —just to name a few famous fans — cheering Team USA on from the stands.

It's too soon to tell who will be watching from the crowd today, but some of the biggest names will surely want to see the greatness that is Biles and Lee in person.

Athens, Beijing, London, Rio and Tokyo.

For five straight Olympic Games, American women have topped the all-around podium in gymnastics, cementing their names in the sport’s most exclusive club.

“I think when you’re surrounded by greatness, it brings out even more greatness,” 2008 Olympic all-around gold medalist Nastia Liukin said. “You want to work harder, you want to be better, you want to step up to that role and that plate and carry on that legacy that you know your previous teammates have done, then set the bar high for the next generation to come.”

For the first time in history, the U.S. women’s gymnastics team will include two all-around champions. Biles (2016) and Lee (2020) were both named to the U.S. women’s team competing in Paris.

They are currently the top all-around gymnasts on the U.S. team. Biles has a significant difficulty advantage over her closest competitor, Rebeca Andrade of Brazil, making her the gold medal favorite to reclaim her title.

“Nobody’s forcing me to do it,” Biles said after making her third Olympic team. “I wake up every day and choose to grind in the gym and come out here and perform for myself, just to remind myself that I can still do it.”

The last time Simone Biles lost an individual all-around competition was 11 years ago.

The 2013 American Cup was her first-ever meet as a senior competitor, and Biles finished second to Katelyn Ohashi, who went on to primarily compete in NCAA gymnastics for UCLA. It's still the only meet she's ever lost.

Biles did not win gold in Tokyo, but she withdrew before the start of the competition due to the "twisties."

In this week’s episode of “Making Space,” Hoda Kotb sat down with Biles before the Paris Olympics to talk about what legacy means to her.

In case of a tie in the all-around final, the gymnast with the higher execution score prevails. If they tie in execution as well, the lowest apparatus score from each gymnast is dropped.

Six-time Olympic medalist Aly Raisman notoriously lost the all-around bronze at the 2012 London Olympics to Russia’s Aliya Mustafina in a heartbreaking tiebreaker that helped spur her 2016 Rio Olympics comeback.

The top 24 gymnasts from the qualifying round advance to the individual all-around final. Only the top two gymnasts from each country move on to the final.

Gymnasts compete on all four apparatuses and all scores count. The gymnast with the highest combined scores wins.

If there’s one person who could spoil the party for Simone Biles, it’s Brazilian phenom Rebeca Andrade.

Andrade, 25, became a household name in Brazil after shewontwo medals at the Tokyo Olympic Games.

Andrade and Biles are expected to face off for gold in the all-around, vault and floor finals. While they have competed against each other before, Paris is set to be the first Olympic showdown with both of them at peak form.

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Italian gymnast Giorgia Villa was a muenster at the 2024 Paris Olympics, helping her team win the silver medal in Tuesday’s all-around final. But social media seems to be more intrigued by the sponsorship deal she has with cheese.

“I need the people to know that olympic silver medalist giorgia villa is sponsored by parmesan cheese and regularly posts pics of herself with giant wheels of cheese,” one user wrote Wednesday on X.

“I have a new hero and it’s Giorgia Villa from Team Italy who is literally sponsored by CHEESE,” another posted.

The 21-year-old announced her partnership with Parmigiano-Reggiano in April 2021, posing in a black gymnastics leotard next to a giant wheel of cheese.

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Suni Lee looks back at her golden performance at the Tokyo Olympics, the highs and lows of her college gymnastics career, and the moment she was told she might never do gymnastics again.

Gymnast Stephen Nedoroscik isnow an Olympic medalist. But to the internet, he’ll always be lovingly remembered as “Pommel horse guy.”

Nedoroscik, who qualified for the Olympic team solely on the strength of hispommel horseroutine, became an internet favorite this week after having sat on the sidelines for nearly three hours during the first five rotations of hte men's team final Tuesday before he anchored the U.S. on his specialty event.

Viewers online couldn’t get enough of Nedoroscik, posting images of him on the sidelines and then again after he crushed his routine.

Some labeled him “pommel horse guy.” Others joked that his job is “pommel horse” — a nod to the “Barbie” movie, in which Ken’s job is described as “beach.” A few described him asTeam USA’s “babygirl,”aword usedby fans online to label their favorite men (fictional or real).

Read the full story here.

NBC News even got ahold of Nederoscik's girlfriend (aka Lois Lane) who has also been reveling in the plethora of memes about Nedoroscik.

Read the full story here.

“The Star-Spangled Banner” could reverberate in Bercy Arena again this week after the U.S. women won team gold Tuesday. It was Biles' fifth Olympic gold and Lee's second.

Up next: individual Olympic glory. Both are capable of adding another Parisian souvenir to their medal collection.

Yesterday, Frederick Richard and Paul Juda represented Team USA in the men's individual all-around final, but didn't find themselves on the podium at the end of the meet.

Juda finished 14th and Richard finished 15th in a field of 24 men. Neither was expected to medal, but Richard was hungry for a spot on the podium.

Richard's day started off rough with a fall on the pommel horse, his first apparatus, but he steadily improved, closing out the meet with two of his best events: High bar and floor.

Juda, who wasn't a favorite to even contend in the all-around final, had a solid day with few mistakes — and positive energy throughout that proved how excited he was just to be there.

Both are first-time Olympians and are young for the men's contest.

Watch as the U.S. women’s gymnastics team celebrates after winning gold medals at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

If she bests Biles and Lee today, Rebeca Andrade would be the first Brazilian gymnast to win an Olympic all-around title.

She came close in Tokyo. Andrade was expected to top the podium there after Biles withdrew due to the “twisties,” but she stepped out of bounds twice at the eleventh hour on the floor exercise, and Lee clinched the gold.

After becoming Brazil's first gymnast to win Olympic medals in Tokyo, she helmed the nation to their first medal in the team event Tuesday, winning bronze.

All-around medal contender Kaylia Nemour is representing Algeria in Paris despite being born and raised in France.

She switched nationalities last year via her paternal Algerian heritage after a lengthy dispute with the French gymnastics federation that left her Paris hopes in jeopardy. The conflict involved contentions over where the uneven bars prodigy would train and allegations that Nemour's coach was overworking the 17-year-old.

The French team is sure to be lamenting burned bridges with Nemour this week.

The squad failed to qualify for the team final or any individual finals at its home Olympics after a disastrous showing in Sunday's qualifying round. Nemour qualified in first place for the uneven bars final and in fourth for today's all-around final.

Shannon Miller, an Olympic gymnast who was a part of the 1996 Magnificent Seven, talked to NBC News’ Tom Llamas about the women’s U.S. gymnastics team and Simone Biles surpassing her medal record.

If Biles or Lee win gold today, they would join Larisa Latynina of the Soviet Union and Věra Čáslavská of Czechoslovakia as repeat Olympic all-around champions. Both are legends of the sport who last competed in the 1960s.

No American has won the title more than once.

A win from Biles would also make her the first gymnast to win two Olympic all-around championships nonconsecutively, having missed out on defending her title in Tokyo while grappling with the "twisties."

After Team USA’striumphant redemption for goldin Tuesday’s team final, Jade Carey and Hezly Rivera can’t stop smiling.

“It just feels so incredible. I’m super excited and super proud of this team and everything that we’ve overcome to get back here on top of the podium again,” Carey told “TODAY” co-anchors Hoda Kotb and Savannah Guthrie.

Despitenot feeling wellbefore Sunday’s qualifiers, Carey landed anexcellent vaultin front of a star-studded crowd to help lift her team to victory in the final.

“A lot of pressure on that one vault, but I knew that if I was just my normal self that I would get the job done,” Carey said.

On the "Call Her Daddy" podcast, Simone Biles walks Alex Cooper through what she was thinking during the team final at the Tokyo Olympics, and how her coaches reacted when she said, “I want to go back to the Olympics.”

Reporting from Paris

Simone Biles and Suni Lee are seeking to be only the third pair of American women to both medal in the individual all-around at the same Olympics.

At the 2008 Beijing Games, Nastia Liukin won gold and Shawn Johnson won silver. Eight years later at Rio, Biles won gold and Aly Raisman won silver.

Uponwinning the gold medal in Tuesday’s team final, Biles posted aphoto to Instagramwith the caption, “lack of talent, lazy, olympic champions,” which appeared to be a reference tocontroversial commentsmade by MyKayla Skinner during the U.S. Olympic trials.

Now, Skinner has reportedly blocked Biles on social media,according to an Instagram storyposted by newly-minted gold medalist Jordan Chiles and apost on Xby Biles.

“I feel like the talent and the depth just isn’t what it used to be ... obviously, a lot of the girls don’t work as hard,” Skinner said in a YouTube video that hassince been deleted.

Though she said Biles was an exception to this observation, Skinner faced swift criticism for disparaging the work ethic of the current U.S. team and issued an apology on social media.

Read the full story here.

Biles is used to her numbers coming in higher than those of most of her competitors. And when it comes to age, it’s no different.

At 27, Biles is the oldest Olympic gymnast to win a gold medal since 1964.

She and her Team USA teammates earned gold at the team final Tuesday, giving Biles’ her eighth Olympic gold medal — the most of any U.S. gymnast.

For many years, understanding gymnastics was pretty simple — falls are bad, and a 10 is the best score! Some of the old rules still stand, but scoring in the sport is more complicated than it was in past decades.

Scoring in gymnastics has changed significantly since the days of Nadia Comăneci and herillustrious “Perfect 10.”The current scoring system can seem less intuitive than the previous one to audiences who do not follow the sport between the Olympic Games.

The Perfect 10 still exists in gymnastics, but it is no longer the only metric used to calculate a score. Today’s gymnasts receive scores in two separate categories for each routine: difficulty and execution. The difficulty score is open-ended, while execution is scored out of a 10.00.

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The women’s individual all-around final kicks off at 12:15 p.m. ET. Catch all the action on NBC and Peaco*ck.