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Post by Admin on Oct 13, 2019 19:32:36 GMT
Simone Biles became the most decorated gymnast in the world championships' history on Sunday with a gold medal on the balance beam in Stuttgart, Germany on Sunday. The US gymnast won her 25th career world medal at the Artistic Gymnastics World Championships, surpassing Belarusian Vitaly Scherbo's career total of 23. On Saturday, Biles won the vault by more than half a point, averaging 15.399 for her two attempts. US gymnast Jade Carey won silver and Elissa Downie of Great Britain took bronze. The world vault title is Biles' second (2018). She also won gold in the event at the 2016 Olympics. Biles also competed in the uneven bars Saturday, finishing fifth.
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Post by Admin on Oct 17, 2019 0:57:22 GMT
Simone Biles joins TODAY to talk to Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb just after winning gold twice at the world championships to become the most decorated gymnast of all time.
"It does amaze me," she says. "I'm up there with some of the greats, so it's just — I'm in awe."
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Post by Admin on May 23, 2020 22:20:45 GMT
Simone Biles‘ latest record-shattering feats will be featured on the Olympic Channel as part of 2019 World Gymnastics Championships Week starting Monday night.
Olympic Channel will air one finals session per night from last October’s worlds in Stuttgart, Germany through Saturday. A marathon of all six finals sessions airs Sunday at 10 a.m.
All coverage — more than 30 hours total — will also stream on NBCSports.com/live and the NBC Sports app for subscribers.
At her likely last world championships, Biles earned five gold medals out of six events. That brought her career total to 25 world medals — breaking Belarusian Vitaly Scherbo‘s record from the 1990s.
Biles led a U.S. team to a seventh straight Olympic or world team title dating to 2011, the longest reign for one nation in women’s gymnastics since Soviet teams in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s. She then won the all-around by the largest margin under a 14-year-old scoring system.
She capped the week with titles on balance beam, floor exercise and vault, becoming the first gymnast to earn five golds at a single worlds since 1958.
She wasn’t the only standout of the week. The U.S. added medals from Jade Carey (vault silver) and Sunisa Lee (floor silver, uneven bars bronze).
Nikita Nagornyy led Russia to its first men’s team title since the breakup of the Soviet Union. Nagornyy then won the all-around and vault.
Olympic Channel will air 2019 World Championships Weeks for diving and beach volleyball the following two weeks.
DAY TIME (ET) EVENT LIVE STREAM Monday 8 p.m. Women’s Team Final STREAM LINK Tuesday 8 p.m. Men’s Team Final STREAM LINK Wednesday 8 p.m. Women’s All-Around STREAM LINK Thursday 8 p.m. Men’s All-Around STREAM LINK Friday 8 p.m. Apparatus Finals (Day 1) STREAM LINK Saturday 8 p.m. Apparatus Finals (Day 2) STREAM LINK Sunday 10 a.m. Women’s Team Final STREAM LINK 12 p.m. Men’s Team Final STREAM LINK 3 p.m. Women’s All-Around STREAM LINK 5 p.m. Men’s All-Around STREAM LINK 8 p.m. Apparatus Finals (Day 1) STREAM LINK 11 p.m. Apparatus Finals (Day 2) STREAM LINK Tags: gymnastics, Olympic Channel, olympics
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