Simone Biles led the women’s gymnastics team to win the gold medal at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, rising like a Phoenix. The most decorated gymnast of all time (with 37 medals between Olympics and World Championships) had arrived rejuvenated to this Olympic event after facing mental health issues.
On Sunday's classification, Biles injured her left calf while warming up for the floor exercise. She briefly stepped out to have her calf wrapped, but then returned and scored the highest marks on floor and vault on her way to leading the all-around competition.
How did the women's gymnastics team do at the 2024 Paris Olympics?
The Americans arrived at the Bercy Arena as the top favorites to win the gold after finishing second in Tokyo, behind Russia, three years ago. The ‘Team USA’, which consists of Biles, Jade Carey, Jordan Chiles, Sunisa Lee, and Hezly Rivera, has been showing a great performance in the Olympics and achieved a solid performance in the qualifying round.
In the final, the American team scored a total of 171.296 points and won all four apparatus, driven by an outstanding performance by Biles in the floor exercise, for which she achieved a score of 14.666, in her closing routine.
In this way, Biles won her first gold medal in Paris 2024 and her eighth Olympic medal in the history of the Games, becoming the gymnast with the highest number of medals in the history of her country. Previously, she won 4 gold medals at the Rio 2016 edition (in the team events, in the individual all-around, in vault, and in floor exercise), and she algo has one silver and two bronze medals.
The podium was completed by Italy (165,494 points) and Brazil (164,497 points; with a standout performance by Rebeca Andrade), who won the silver and bronze medals, respectively.