If you don’t know who Simone Biles is, you clearly did not go anywhere near a TV in 2016. Or the years since then!
Simone Biles is currently the most decorated American gymnast and she is only 21 years old. She has a combined nineteen Olympic and World Championship medals. She is the three-time world all-around champion. That is a title she earned back to back, from the years 2013 to 2015.
In the summer of 2016, there wasn’t a headline that wasn’t written about Simone Biles, thanks to the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. She was a member of the gold-medal winning Final Five.
Because of all of her success in the early years of her career and at such a young age, she has already been called the greatest gymnast of all time. And she has only just gotten started!
After the Final Five dominated the 2016 Summer Olympics and Simone personally won three gold medals and one bronze, she understandably decided to take some time off.
Simone announced she would take 2017 to rest and do things that people her own age do and she would get back into training in early 2018. It looks like that rest did Simone very well!
She did, in fact, take that year off and has since resurfaced in the gymnastics world. Simone made her return to competing in July 2018 and she proved that a little time off can go a very long way.
Simone made her return to gymnastics at the 2018 G.K. U.S. Classic which took place at the end of July. It was an extremely successful competition for Simone.
She won all-around and wound up beating silver medalist Riley McCusker by a full 1.200 points. She won gold for floor and balance beam, as well. She even recorded the highest single vault score in history at the competition!
In this balance beam routine, fans of Simone get to see some throwback moves that she used when competing in Rio and a little bit of added flair. If you’re a fan of wolf turns, this a routine that you cannot miss.
Simone is known for being talented at all aspects of the competition, but particularly the floor and balance beam.
The video was shared on USA Gymnastics’ Facebook page, where it has since gotten nearly 600,000 views, over 13,000 likes, and almost 6,000 shares.
One Facebook user predicted that Simone will have a very lengthy and successful career. They wrote:
She’s going to be the Serena Williams of gymnastics, she’ll dominate the sport for many years to come
While another user wrote:
Goddam girl still got it even after so much time off she truly is a gymnastics genius. Usually when they take time off like she did they never come back the same
One Facebook user was already predicting how upsetting it will be whenever Simone does decide to retire. The wrote:
Bring on another Olympics. Simone Biles is BACK! It really will be one sad day in the future when she decides to retire.
What do you think of Simone’s routine? Is this one of her beat on the balance beam so far in her career?
Watch Simone Biles’ balance beam routine in the video below:
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