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Post by Admin on Oct 1, 2019 19:28:32 GMT
Simone Biles holds a press conference ahead of Team USA's first day of official practice at the Stuttgart World Championships.
Before the Podium Training this evening Simone biles gave a press conference to the media.
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Post by Admin on Oct 2, 2019 19:02:07 GMT
Simone Biles, the four-time Olympic and 14-time World Champion, held a pre-competition press conference this morning, in which she spoke about her expectations for these Championships. Later in the afternoon, Russia held podium training, before the spectators got what they wanted to see: Biles landing her triple-double, double-double, and even her eponymous Biles vault. You can re-live all the action below, and also check out our World Championships preview article, preview video, or watch our original series All Around. Simone Biles and Team USA certainly made the fans who were here happy. They were cheering loudly all night, and it was a steal at just 10 euros. We'll bring you blog and video coverage of the Russian men's podium training tomorrow afternoon. But until then, it's goodnight from us, and goodnight from Team USA.
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Post by Admin on Oct 2, 2019 22:18:39 GMT
And for those of you who're waiting for it, here's the other five Team USA girls on balance beam. There's little doubt Simone Biles is a superstar, although she said this morning she didn't like to think of herself as one. "I feel like if I were to label myself a superstar it would bring more expectations on me and I would feel more pressure in the limelight," she said. "When I go out there to compete, I represent Simone, not Simone Biles. At the end of the day I'm still a human being, not Simone Biles the superstar." Well, here's her balance beam routine from this evening.
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Post by Admin on Oct 3, 2019 3:42:00 GMT
Simone Biles is definitely keen to get her name in the Code of Points again here. She's landed her double-double dismount off beam in podium training. For the first time since she fell attempting it at last year's all-around world final, Simone Biles has landed a Biles on vault. Now, this is who and what they've paid their 10 euros to come see: Simone Biles doing and landing the triple-double on floor in podium training!
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Post by Admin on Oct 3, 2019 18:20:16 GMT
In Simone Biles‘ second Olympic cycle, she has become comfortable speaking out. Whether it be about problems within USA Gymnastics or taking on the social media critics who disapproved of her last name being on the back of a competition leotard.
Biles begins what will likely be her final world championships — “99 percent” sure she won’t be back in 2021 or later, she said — with qualifying on Saturday (TV, live stream schedule here).
She will compete with fuel added just this week. And she hasn’t kept to herself why she’s “pissed off.”
The International Gymnastics Federation women’s technical committee announced what point values would be awarded to new skills performed in Stuttgart, Germany.
Two of the unprecedented moves are Biles’ viral clips from the U.S. Championships in August: the triple-double on floor exercise and the double-double dismount off the balance beam. If Biles performs them in international competition — like at worlds — they will be named after her. She already has one eponymous floor pass and vault.
The committee gave the triple-double, which would be “The Biles 2,” a J value — corresponding to a full point in difficulty score (one tenth for every letter in the alphabet). Until now, the highest value given to an element was an I. Biles hoped The Biles 2 would be a J.
One of Biles’ coaches, Cecile Landi, tweeted that Biles makes the dismount look “too easy.” Biles concurred. She noted that an easier skill — a full-in — is an E on floor and a G on beam. The double-double on floor is an H, so, she asked, why does a double-double on beam rise one tenth from a full-in instead of three like it does on floor?
“They don’t want to make a new column,” for an unprecedented value on beam, Biles said. “That’s what they said.”
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