
Simone Biles Wins Gold Medal During Individual All-Around at 2016 Olympics
Team USA's Simone Biles continued her historic Olympic Games by winning the gold medal in the individual all-around competition in Rio on Thursday.
It's her second gold medal in as many events thus far, and she continues a dominant overall performance for the United States gymnastics team.
Aly Raisman of the United States took home the silver, while Russia's Aliya Mustafina took home the bronze.
The U.S. currently leads all countries with 12 golds and 33 medals and has now taken three of the six available medals from the team competition and individual all-around after winning gold as a team earlier in the week.
Biles was downright dominant, comfortably winning with a combined score of 62.198 that easily surpassed Raisman (60.098). The Americans were the only two competitors to crack a score of 60 or higher. Biles' vault (15.866) and floor exercise (15.933) were phenomenal and the top scores in each event on the day.
SportsCenter broke down just how dominant the showing was:
Biles entered Brazil as the great hope for the U.S. in the all-around. The 19-year-old American had racked up 10 gold medals in the World Championships since 2013 and was a two-time gold-medal winner in the Pacific Rim Championships earlier this year.
"She’s kind of like Supergirl. It’s really impressive everything that she does, and it’s like easy for her," teammate Raisman said, per USA Today's Rachel Axon. "It’s not normal to be able to do your routines and then have the energy and have time to, oh, ‘I’ll just try these skills after.’ I don’t have the energy to do that."
While expected coming into the Games, Biles medaling is the apex of a career that ranks among the best in U.S. history. She had already become the first African-American world champion in the all-around and holds the record for most golds in the World Championships.
All of that makes it even more amazing that she's just in her first Olympic Games—she did not debut on the senior circuit until 2013, a year after the London Olympics.
While it's unclear whether she'll attempt to come back in 2020—no U.S. team member is older than 22, with Raisman being the only one older than 20—Biles is certainly setting the tone for the Games in 2016.

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