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MyKayla Skinner Says She's Getting Death Threats

Gymnast wants Simone Biles to call off her fans

(Newser) - MyKayla Skinner says she's been getting death threats ever since Simone Biles brought renewed attention to comments she made about the current US women's gymnastics team competing at the Paris Olympics. Skinner, in a July video that she later deleted, bemoaned what she saw as a decrease in...

Podium Photo Is a Classic
Podium
Photo Is
a Classic
Aug 6, 2024 11:44 AM CDT

Podium Photo Is a Classic

Simone Biles, Jordan Chiles ensure historic all-Black podium won't soon be forgotten

(Newser) - Simone Biles may not have clinched gold in her signature event Monday , but she helped deliver a "display of sportsmanship" and another "enduring image " of the Paris Games, CNN reports. Taking the podium after the floor exercise finals, the silver medalist joined her friend and teammate, bronze...

No Golden Send-Off for Simone Biles

She fails to medal on the beam, takes home silver in her signature floor event

(Newser) - Simone Biles didn't get the golden send-off she'd hoped for. Biles earned silver in the floor exercise finals Monday—her 11th Olympic medal—after a routine that included a couple of costly steps out of bounds. Brazil's Rebeca Andrade became the first gymnast to beat Biles in...

Biles Vaults to Seventh Gold
Biles Captures
7th Gold
Aug 3, 2024 1:30 PM CDT

Biles Captures 7th Gold

Vault competition may have been her last in Olympics

(Newser) - Simone Biles earned her seventh Olympic gold medal by soaring to victory in the women's vault final at the Paris Games on Saturday. The 27-year-old averaged 15.300 for her signature Yurchenko double pike and Cheng vaults to claim a second gold on the event eight years after she...

Simone Biles Appears to Tweak Trump

Gold-medal gymnast confirms she loves her 'Black job'

(Newser) - Donald Trump has referred to "Black jobs" a couple of times during his 2024 presidential campaign, remarks that have brought him criticism and apparently caught the attention of Simone Biles. After winning her sixth Olympic gold medal the day before, the most-decorated US gymnast of all time owned Trump'...

Simone Biles Reclaims Gold in Tense All-Around Final

American gymnast wins it for the second time in her career

(Newser) - Simone Biles remains peerless. Even when she's not quite perfect. The American gymnastics star edged Brazil's Rebeca Andrade during a tense Olympic all-around final on Thursday, per the AP . Biles' total of 59.131 was just over a point ahead of Andrade at 57.932, one of the...

Simone Biles' 'Lazy' Instagram Caption Goes Viral

Post-victory Instagram post appears to settle a score with former teammate MyKayla Skinner

(Newser) - Simone Biles had six words to say about the US gymnastic team's gold medal on Tuesday, and as Time reports, they appeared to take a direct stab at a former teammate's criticism of the current team. "Lack of talent, lazy, olympic champions," Biles captioned a photo...

Simone Biles and Team USA Take Back the Throne

Team takes all-around gold

(Newser) - "The Redemption Tour" ended in a familiar spot for Simone Biles: atop the Olympic podium. Again. The American gymnastics star and her singular brilliance powered a dominant US women's team to all-around gold in the finals inside a raucous Bercy Arena on Tuesday night. With Biles at her...

Injured Simone Biles Pulls Rabbit Out of a Hat Anyway

Team USA finishes atop the leaderboard as stars come out to watch the star gymnast

(Newser) - Simone Biles didn't let some leg discomfort slow her down. As the AP reports, the gymnastics superstar posted an all-around total of 59.566 during Olympic qualifying on Sunday inside a packed and star-studded Bercy Arena despite complaining of a left calf injury that had her limping. US gymnastics...

Simone Biles Has a New Option at the Olympics

Team USA says star gymnast doesn't have to compete in any finals events if she doesn't want to

(Newser) - Simone Biles will be back at the Olympics this summer, three years after she pulled herself out of multiple events at the Tokyo Games to contend with mental health issues. This time around, however, the 27-year-old gymnast will have more say in how and when she competes—meaning she won'...

Simone Biles Secures Her 3rd Trip to the Olympics

She nabs the only automatic spot on the 5-woman team

(Newser) - Simone Biles is heading back to the Olympics and the white-hot spotlight that comes with it. The gymnastics superstar earned a third trip to her sport's biggest stage by cruising to victory at the US Olympic trials on Sunday night, posting a two-day all-around total of 117.225 to...

Simone Biles Easily Wins Her 9th US Championship

No one else has more than 7 national gymnastics titles in the US

(Newser) - Gymnastics superstar Simone Biles won her ninth US Championship on Sunday, leaving little doubt that at 27 and a decade-plus into her run atop the sport, she is as good as ever, the AP reports. Biles posted a two-day all-around total of 119.750, nearly six points clear of runner-up...

Simone Biles Begins Her March to Paris

Gymnast dominates US Classic looking for her spot on Olympic team as Gabby Douglas scratches

(Newser) - Simone Biles certainly looks ready for Paris with more than two months to go before the Olympic games begin. The gymnastics superstar began her bid for a third Olympic team looking as dominant as ever at the US Classic on Saturday, posting an all-around score of 59.500, nearly two...

AP's Female Athlete of the Year Made Comeback for Three-peat

Simone Biles, who stunned in her return to gymnastics competition, wins honor a 3rd time

(Newser) - There were jitters, of course. Considering all that happened, how could there not? When Simone Biles walked onto the floor at a suburban Chicago arena in late July for her first gymnastics competition in two years, she knew plenty of people were wondering how it was going to go. "...

Simone Biles, US Women's Team Both Set Records

By winning team title at gymnastics world championships in Antwerp, Belgium

(Newser) - Simone Biles and her teammates were far from perfect, and yet nothing could stand in the way of a victory that set a record for both the US women's team and the greatest gymnast in history. The US women earned a record seventh consecutive team title at the gymnastics...

Simone Biles Launches Into the History Books

She becomes first woman to land the Yurchenko double pike vault at international meet

(Newser) - Simone Biles made a remarkable return to international competition at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships on Sunday, becoming the first woman to land the Yurchenko double pike vault at an international meet. In her first international competition since the Tokyo Olympics, an event she withdrew from in 2021, the 19-time...

Young Black Gymnast Watches Everyone Get a Medal but Her
Video of Snubbed Black
Gymnast Spurs Outcry, Apology
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Sep 30, 2023 12:10 PM CDT

Video of Snubbed Black Gymnast Spurs Outcry, Apology

Ireland's sports ministry says girl at competition was 'badly let down' by being passed over

(Newser) - A video showing a young Black gymnast being passed over for a medal while her white counterparts all receive one is now making the rounds, prompting an apology from Gymnastics Ireland and support from one of the biggest names in the sport. The BBC reports that the clip now circulating...

A Decade After 1st US Gymnastics Title, Simone Biles Makes History With 8th
Simone Biles
Just Made History
Aug 28, 2023 1:00 AM CDT

Simone Biles Just Made History

She won a record 8th US Gymnastics title, and became oldest woman to ever do so

(Newser) - Simone Biles is not going to explain herself. Part of this is by design. Part of this is because she simply can't. When the gymnastics star is at her best, as she was on Sunday night while winning her record eighth US championship, she feels like she's in...

Simone Biles Returns. It Was Like She Never Left

After two years away from gymnastics, she smokes the competition at US Classic

(Newser) - Notice to the world's elite female gymnasts: Simone Biles is back. The 26-year-old returned to competition at the US Classic Saturday after taking two years off for mental health issues and easily dominated, reports USA Today . Biles won the competition by 5 points, an enormous margin—the New York ...

2 Big Names Return to Gymnastics Competition

Simone Biles and Sunisa Lee are looking ahead to the 2024 Olympics

(Newser) - Next year's Summer Olympics in Paris could be particularly epic for fans of US gymnastics: Two huge names are returning to competition, with the Paris games in mind. Simone Biles and Sunisa Lee will participate in the US Classic on Aug. 5 outside Chicago, NPR reports. It's the...

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