Ten years after she won her first world title in Antwerp, Belgium, at age 16, Simone Biles added another all-around gold medal to her collection Friday in the same city where it all began.
She became the first gymnast in history, male or female, to win six all-around world titles. This win, at the Artistic Gymnastics World Championships, marks her 27th world medal and breaks the record for total world and Olympic medals combined, passing Larisa Latynina, who represented the Soviet Union. Biles now has 34 world and Olympic medals: 27 world championship medals — 21 of which are gold — and seven Olympic medals.
Roberson appeared to land at a low angle while she was warming up for a difficult vault called the “Cheng,” which Biles also performs. 'I felt like half of me was gone out there,” Biles told NBC Sports about Roberson's last-minute injury. “Everyone kind of got a little bit frazzled ... You saw the strength and the courage of our team to keep going.” Regardless, that day the U.S. team finished more than two points ahead of the silver medal-winning team, Brazil.
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