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her score was high enough to win her the bronze medal. Copying the results of the individual all-around, Biles and Raisman won gold and silver respectively in the floor exercise event final, competing the two highest difficulty routines in the competition. Laurie Hernandez competed on and won season 23 of "Dancing with the Stars". She was partnered with Valentin Chmerkovskiy. Simone Biles competed on season 24 of "Dancing with the Stars". She was partnered with Sasha Farber. They finished fourth. Madison Kocian went on to
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compete on season 24 of "Dancing with the Stars" attempting to replicate her Rio teammate Laurie Hernandez's win in season 23. She was paired with professional dancer Sasha Farber. Before the competition even started, Biles and Farber were favorites to win. Despite high scores and praises from the judges throughout the season, Biles and Farber were eliminated on May 15, 2017, one week before the finals, finishing in fourth place. In August, during the 2017 P&G National Championships Biles stated that she has returned to the gym
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the ESPY Award for Best Female Athlete. She is the second gymnast to win this award after Nastia Liukin won it in 2009. In 2017, Simone won the Shorty Awards for the best in sports. At the 2017 Teen Choice Awards, Simone won favorite female athlete, and won Laureus World Sports Award for Sportswoman of the Year in 2017. Simone Biles was named one of the most influential people in the World list by Time Magazine. In May 2018, it was announced that Biles and the other survivors would be awarded
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2016 Simone Biles gymnastics season


The 2016 Simone Biles gymnastics season refers to the competitions that American artistic gymnast Simone Biles will participate in during the 2016 gymnastics season. Biles' 2016 season may start on March 18, 2016, at the City of Jesolo Trophy, or may start as late as June 4, 2016 – at the 2016 U.S. Classic. The 2015 World Champion, Biles celebrated one of her most successful seasons in 2015. Domestically, she defended her National title and won two additional National titles; a recipient of 7 senior National titles. Similarly
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Dancing with the Stars (American season 24)


Heather Morris danced with Alan Bersten on account of Maksim Chmerkovskiy's injury. Season 9 winner Donny Osmond sang "I'll Make a Man Out of You" live while Normani Kordei and Valentin Chmerkovskiy danced. Auli'i Cravalho sang "How Far I'll Go" live while Simone Biles and Sasha Farber danced. "Individual judges' scores in the chart below (given in parentheses) are listed in this order from left to right: Carrie Ann Inaba, Nick Carter, Len Goodman, Bruno Tonioli." The couples danced one
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, and first on floor exercise. She also had the highest single vault score, ahead of Jade Carey and MyKayla Skinner. Biles was named Team USA Female Olympic Athlete of the Year in December 2015, making her the fourth gymnast to win the honor. In December 2016, Biles was chosen as one of the sponsors of the US Navy aircraft carrier USS "Enterprise" alongside swimmer Katie Ledecky. They are the first Olympians to be given this honor. In 2016, Simone Biles won the Glamour Award for the Record Breaker
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win both the individual all-around gold and team gold at the same Olympic games. Douglas won both in the 2012 London games. As the first American female gymnast to be given the honor, Biles was chosen by Team USA to be the flag bearer in the closing ceremonies. Biles stated that she planned to take all of 2017 off and to resume training in early 2018. After the 2016 Rio Games, Simone wrote an autobiography with co-journalist Michelle Burford, "Courage to Soar: A body in Motion,
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to start conditioning. In October it was announced that Biles' new coach would be Laurent Landi, the former coach of Olympic teammate Madison Kocian. This news came after it was announced that Biles' former coach, Aimee Boorman, was moving to Florida to take the executive director position at Evo Athletics. Biles was officially added back to the National Team on March 1 after the Athlete Selection Committee viewed videos demonstrating Biles current performance level. Biles' first competition was the U.S. Classic in July, where she won the all-
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Raisman) won the World team title – a third consecutive World title. As well as the team title, the U.S. women's team won four individual titles; Simone Biles (3 – AA, BB, FX) and Madison Kocian (1 – UB). The team won an additional silver medal (Gabby Douglas – AA) and two bronze medals (Simone Biles – VT and Maggie Nichols – FX) Notesbr* denotes multi-day event. Start times may vary day by day.br– denotes National Team camp (
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into the team final. During the team final, Biles led the United States to its second consecutive world team championship, which they won over the second-place Chinese team by nearly seven points. In the all-around, Biles performed cleanly on all four events, bettering her bars score from qualifications by over a point, and won her second consecutive world all-around title ahead of two good friends, Ross and Iordache. Biles became the second American woman to repeat as world all-around champion, following Miller
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15.650 and placed fifth on uneven bars with a 15.1. In the following weeks at the 2016 U.S. National Championships, Biles won the all-around title by a wide margin of 3.9 points over Aly Raisman. She won the gold medal on vault and floor exercise, receiving scores of at least sixteen all four times. She also won the gold medal on balance beam and placed fourth on uneven bars. On July 10, Biles was named to the team for the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, alongside Gabby
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top three finishers were Sam Mikulak, Alexander Naddour, and Jacob Dalton. In 2014, the top three finishers in the women's all-around were Simone Biles, Kyla Ross, and Maggie Nichols. It was Biles's second consecutive all-around title. In the individual events, Biles won on both vault and floor exercise, Ross won on balance beam, and newcomer Ashton Locklear won on uneven bars. In the men's all-around, the top three finishers were Sam Mikulak, John Orozco, and Jacob
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vault, balance beam, and floor exercise titles in addition to contributing to the U.S.' team gold medal. She and the U.S. delegation then competed at an international tri-meet in Chemnitz, Germany, against teams from Germany and Romania. The U.S. won the team gold medal. In addition, Biles won the vault, balance beam, and floor titles, but tied for second in the all-around behind Ross after a fall on the uneven bars. In July, Biles competed at the 2013 U.S. Classic. She
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. In 2016, she was chosen as one of BBC's 100 Women, and after the world championships, she was named one of ESPNW's Impact 25 and chosen as Sportswoman of the Year by the Women's Sports Foundation. She was also one of the finalists for "Time magazine"'s 2016 Person of the Year. Biles was also nominated for a 2016 ESPY award for Best Female Athlete along with Elena Delle Donne, Katie Ledecky, and Breanna Stewart; Stewart won the award. In July 2017, Biles won
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Having won a combined total of twenty-five Olympic and World Championship medals, Biles is the most decorated American gymnast. Biles became the sixth woman to win an individual all-around title at both the World Championships and the Olympic Games. Biles set an American record for most gold medals in women's gymnastics at a single Olympic Games (four). At the 2018 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Doha, Biles became the female gymnast with the most World all-around titles (4) and total World medals (20
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at the Pacific Rim Championships, where she won the all-around title and had the highest score on vault (where she debuted a more difficult second vault), floor exercise (where she debuted a new floor routine), and balance beam. Additionally, the U.S. won the team title by a wide margin. Biles did not compete in the event finals. On June 4, Biles competed at the Secret U.S. Classic on two events only, the uneven bars and beam. She placed first on balance beam with a
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of any competitor on vault, uneven bars, and floor exercise. The U.S. team won the gold medal with a score of 171.629, 8.766 points ahead of second place Russia, beating previous margin of victory records set in the open-ended code of points era at the 2014 World Championships (6.693) and the 2016 Olympic Games (8.209). In the all-around final, Biles won the gold medal, despite struggles on several events. These included sitting her Biles vault, falling off the balance beam on her
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. The other nominees were Elena Delle Donne, Katie Ledecky, and Simone Biles. She also won Best Women's College Basketball Player at the 2016 ESPYs. In 2017, Stewart continued to flourish after an impressive rookie season. She was voted into the 2017 WNBA All-Star Game, making it her first career all-star game appearance. On August 5, 2017, Stewart scored a season-high 32 points in an 87–80 overtime loss to the San Antonio Stars. Stewart would finish the season with a career-
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in 1991. Biles competed cleanly during the women's individual all-around and won the competition with a score of 60.216, almost a point ahead of silver medalist Ross and almost a point and a half better than the bronze medalist, 2010 world all-around champion Aliya Mustafina. Biles became the seventh American woman and the first African-American to win the world all-around title. In event finals, she won silver on the vault, behind defending world champion and Olympic silver medalist McKayla Maroney and ahead of 2008
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and the 2014 Pacific Rim Championships. Biles' 2014 debut came at the U.S. Classic in Chicago. She won the all-around by a wide margin and also took first place on vault, beam (tied with Ross), and floor. At the 2014 USA Gymnastics National Championships, Biles repeated as national all-around champion after two days of competition, finishing more than four points ahead of silver medalist Ross, despite a fall from the balance beam during her final routine of the meet. She won the gold on
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Amy Tinkler of Great Britain won bronze scoring 14.933. She contributed to an historic feat for the gymnastics team, with USA claiming a medal on every event for the first time since 1984. With four Olympic gold medals, Biles set an American record for most gold medals in women's gymnastics at a single Games, and equaled a number of other records with her medals won in Rio. Biles' win of four gold medals was the first instance of a quadruple gold medallist in women's gymnastics at a single Games since Ecaterina
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Get Up on the Dance Floor/Headz Up


Get Up on the Dance Floor/Headz Up is the debut double A-side single of street dancer George Sampson who won the 2008 edition of "Britain's Got Talent". It was released on 24 November 2008 and all proceeds were donated to Great Ormond Street Hospital. Simon Cowell initially planned to only release dance videos with Sampson, but after seeing fan responses to Sampson, he wanted to do more. Eventually a video was choreographed by street-dance and Cirque du Soleil star Mukhtar Omar Sharif Mukhtar. Simon Cowell
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of Florida for the 2016–17 season. Simone Biles – Spring, Texas (World Champions Centre) – Biles is the reigning World Champion, and is the recipient of 10 World Champion titles. The 2013 and 2014 World champion, Biles won the Secret Classic and National title in 2015, domestically. Named to the U.S. 2015 Worlds team (for a third time), Biles defended her individual all-around title. Additionally, during the event finals, she captured beam and floor titles also. She was nominated for the Sports
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bars and high bar, Jacob Dalton won on floor, Alexander Naddour won on pommel horse, Jonathan Horton won on rings, and Sean Senters won on vault. In 2013, the top three finishers in the women's all-around were Simone Biles, Kyla Ross, and Brenna Dowell. In the individual events, Ross won on uneven bars and balance beam and her Olympic teammate McKayla Maroney won on vault and floor exercise; Biles swept the silver medals in each event. In the men's all-around, the
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Dalton. It was Mikulak's second consecutive all-around title. In the individual events, Dalton won on floor exercise, Mikulak won on pommel horse, Brandon Wynn won on still rings, Donnell Whittenburg won on vault, Danell Leyva won on parallel bars, and Orozco won on high bar. In 2015, the top three finishers in the women's all-around were Simone Biles, Maggie Nichols, and Aly Raisman. It was Biles's third consecutive all-around title and became the first female gymnast since Kim
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the U.S. won the team title, and Lexie Priessman of the U.S. won the individual all-around. In the senior division, US once again won the team title. Italy's A team placed second, while Japan won bronze. The United States' six senior gymnasts placed first through sixth in the all-around competition, with first-year senior Simone Biles winning gold with a score of 60.400, Kyla Ross taking silver with 58.650, and Brenna Dowell placing third with 56.650. During the apparatus finals, Biles won
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3 consecutive times. In the individual events, Steven Legendre won on floor exercise, Alex Naddour won on pommel horse, Whittenburg won on still rings, Mikulak won on both vault and parallel bars, and Brooks won on high bar. In 2016, the top three finishers in the women's all-around were Simone Biles, Aly Raisman, and Laurie Hernandez. It was Biles's fourth consecutive all-around title and became the first female gymnast since Joan Moore-Gnat (1971-1974) to win the all
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, who won five consecutive men's competitions from 1996 to 2000, and Sam Mikulak. For the women Simone Biles, who won from 2013 to 2016, and again in 2018. Joan Moore Gnat and John Roethlisberger have both won four times. Kurt Thomas, Kim Zmeskal, Paul Hamm each won three times. The record for most titles in one event is held by Alicia Sacramone, who won six women's vault competitions from 2005 to 2012. The record for most individual titles across all events is Dominique Dawes, with
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mistake, wobbly routines from France's Marine Boyer, Brazil's Flavia Saraiva, China's Fan Yilin, Romania's Catalina Ponor, and Canadian Isabela Onyshko, combined with her high difficulty score, allowed her to grab bronze behind teammate Laurie Hernandez (who won silver with a score of 15.333), and Sanne Wevers of the Netherlands (who won the title scoring 15.466). In the women's floor exercise final, she won gold with a score of 15.966. Teammate Aly Raisman won silver with a score of 15.500 and
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, Biles competed in the Women's Qualification at the 2016 Summer Olympics. She scored a 16.050 on the vault, a 15.000 on the uneven bars, a 15.633 on the balance beam, and a 15.733 on the floor exercise. Along with the team final, she individually qualified into the all-around, vault, balance beam, and floor exercise finals, all in first place. On August 9, Biles won her first Olympic gold medal in the gymnastics team event. The only gymnast for Team USA to compete on
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Final Five (gymnastics)


The Final Five was the United States women's team in artistic gymnastics that won the team event at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. It was the United States' third gold medal in the event and second outside the United States. The five members of the team were Simone Biles, Gabby Douglas, Laurie Hernandez, Madison Kocian, and Aly Raisman. After the team event, Biles won a gold medal in the individual all-around event, the vault, and on floor exercise and won a bronze on
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Cup. Then, she won the all-around at both the National Championships and the NHK Cup. She won gold on balance beam and floor exercise at the Event National Championships. At the 2018 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Doha, Qatar the Japanese team finished in sixth place. Individually, she finished second in the all-around final, behind Simone Biles. It is the first women’s all-around silver medal in Japan’s history. She then won the bronze medal in the floor exercise final behind Biles and
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Szabo (Romania) in 1984, and the fifth overall, after Larisa Latynina (USSR, 1956), Agnes Keleti ( HUN, 1956), Věra Čáslavská (CZE, 1968) and Szabo. Biles became the sixth female gymnast to have won an individual all-around title at both the World Championships and the Olympic Games; the others being Larisa Latynina, Věra Čáslavská, Ludmilla Tourischeva, Elena Shushunova and Lilia Podkopayeva. Biles is the first female gymnast since Lilia Podkopayeva (UKR) in 1996 to win the all
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the Arthur Ashe Courage Award. In December, it was announced that Biles was named ESPN The Magazine's most dominant athlete of 2018. In February 2019, it was announced that Biles was named Laureus' Sportswoman of the Year for the second time, beating out tennis players Simona Halep and Angelique Kerber, snowboarder Ester Ledecká, triathlete Daniela Ryf, and skier Mikaela Shiffrin. Biles was nominated for the 2019 ESPY Award for Best Female Athlete but lost to soccer player Alex Morgan. Biles signed with Octagon in July 2015, who
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performed poorly, falling several times, and did not compete vault after twisting her ankle on the floor exercise. Afterward, she was invited to a private camp with the national team coordinator, Márta Károlyi, and consulted a sports psychologist. Biles went on to compete at the 2013 USA Gymnastics National Championships in August, where she was crowned the national all-around champion ahead of Ross. Biles also won silver on all four individual events. After the USA Gymnastics National Championships, she was named to the Senior National Team and
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she competed were a Cheng and an Amanar. This marked her thirteenth World gold medal, resulting in her winning the most Gymnastics World Championships titles of any gender, breaking Soviet Vitaly Scherbo's previous record of twelve gold medals. She then won the silver medal on uneven bars, again behind Derwael. By winning a medal on uneven bars, Biles became the first American and the tenth female gymnast from any country to have won a World Championship medal on every event. The following day, she won the bronze medal on balance
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stuck her Amanar vault for a 15.966, and then her Yurchenko half-on, front layout full off earned a score of 15.483. Simone Biles, who had won the all-around title the day before, won silver in this event. 2008 Olympic Vault Champion Hong Un Jong took the bronze. The final was held on 5 October. Kyla Ross, who had won the all-around silver medal the day before, won another silver in this event. Huang Huidan took the gold, and Olympic champion Aliya Mustafina
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behind Kara Eaker with a score of 14.000, and she placed seventh on bars after scoring 13.500 with a fall. On July 28, she competed at the 2018 U.S. Classic where she won the silver medal in the all-around and on balance beam, behind Simone Biles on both. She also won the gold medal on bars, one tenth of a point ahead of Alyona Shchennikova, and she placed fourth on floor behind Biles, Jade Carey, and Morgan Hurd. In August at the 2018 U.S. National Championships, McCusker
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July at the 2019 U.S. Classic, McCusker won the silver medal in the all-around behind Simone Biles with a score of 57.900. In addition, she won the bronze medal on bars behind Hurd and Lee, the silver medal on beam behind Eaker, and she placed fifth on floor behind Biles, Jade Carey, Grace McCallum, and Eaker. After the competition, she was officially named to the 2019 Pan American Games team alongside Eaker, Finnegan, Hurd, and Wong. At the Pan American Games, Riley competed
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all four events in the final, she contributed scores of 15.933 on vault, 14.800 on bars, 15.300 on beam and 15.800 on floor as the Americans won the gold medal with a score of 184.897, over eight points ahead of the second place Russians. She also won the gold medal individual all-around on August 11, with teammate Aly Raisman winning the silver and Russia's Aliya Mustafina claiming the bronze. Biles had a total score of 62.198 with 15.866 on the vault, 14.966 on the uneven bars, 15.433 on
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contributed to the team by scoring 15.100 on vault, 15.233 on beam and 14.833 on floor. On August 15 during Event Finals, Hernandez won a silver medal on the Balance Beam with a score of 15.333. She placed ahead of teammate Simone Biles, who placed 3rd with a score of 14.733 after making an error and grabbing the beam, and behind Sanne Wevers of the Netherlands, who won gold with a score of 15.466. In 2014, Hernandez committed to the University of Florida to compete on the Florida Gators gymnastics team
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a Moors (double-twisting double layout) on floor exercise. In August, Biles competed at the 2018 National Championships where she placed first on every event over two days of competition. She is the first woman to do so since Dominique Dawes in 1994. Biles won the all-around title 6.55 points ahead of second-place finisher and reigning world champion Morgan Hurd and set a record for the most national all-around titles with five wins. This placement also marked her fourth national vault title, third national balance
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the opening skill in Hurd and Murakami’s routines. Earning her fourth world all-around title, Biles set a new record for most women's World All-Around titles, surpassing the previous record of three held by Svetlana Khorkina. She also became the first defending Olympic women's all-around champion to earn a world all-around title since 1972 Olympic champion Lyudmilla Turischeva did so in 1974. In the event finals, Biles won the gold medal on vault, her first ever world vault title. The two vaults
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January it was announced that Biles would compete at the Stuttgart World Cup in early March. It was her first World Cup appearance not on American soil. She finished in first place, 3.668 points ahead of second place Ana Padurariu of Canada. In July Biles competed at the 2019 GK US Classic where she won the all-around 2.1 points ahead of second place finisher Riley McCusker. Individually, she placed fifth on bars behind Morgan Hurd, Sunisa Lee, Grace McCallum and McCusker, third on beam behind Kara Eaker and McCusker
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reigning world all-around champion Simone Biles. Biles won the individual all-around, vault, and floor exercise gold medals, and also took bronze in the balance beam final. Raisman won silver medals in the all-around and floor exercise. Hernandez took the silver on the balance beam while Kocian, the reigning uneven bars world co-champion would win silver in that event. The 2016 games had been the most dominant games ever for team USA in women's gymnastics, having won 4 golds, 4 silvers,
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. In 2003, the couple officially adopted the two youngest children, Simone and Adria, and Ron's sister Harriet, adopted the two oldest. Biles holds Belize citizenship through her mother and refers to Belize as being her second home. Biles and her family practice Catholicism. In 2012, Biles switched from public school to home schooling and the change allowed her to increase her training from approximately 20 hours a week to 32 which led to her improved success during the 2012 season. Biles spent all her secondary education as a homeschooler
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United States is currently 5th in the all-time medal count for the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. The first American gymnast to win a medal at the World Championships was Cathy Rigby who won silver on beam in 1970. The first female American gymnast to win a world title was Marcia Frederick in 1978 on the uneven bars. The most decorated American gymnast at the World Championships is Simone Biles, who won 20 medals (14 gold, 3 silver and 3 bronze) from 2013 to 2018. The United States won team gold
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A Life in Balance". According to the Los Angeles Times, Biles stated, "I want people to reach for their dreams and there are so many people who have inspired me with their love and encouragement along the way-and I want to pass on that inspiration to readers." The book hit number one on The New York Times best sellers Young Adult list the week of January 8, 2017 and was turned into a Lifetime biopic. On March 1, Biles was revealed as one of the contestants who would
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Sanne Wevers


was named to the Dutch team for the 2016 Summer Olympics, and her sister Lieke also made the team. In qualifications on 7 August, Wevers scored 14.408 on uneven bars and 15.066 on balance beam, advancing to the final in fourth place. On 15 August, she won the gold medal in the balance beam final with a score of 15.466, outscoring Americans Laurie Hernandez and Simone Biles, who won silver and bronze. This was the first time a Dutch woman won an individual medal in artistic gymnastics, the second time
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), as well as the gymnast with the most World gold medals of any gender (14). She also became the tenth gymnast and first American gymnast to win a World medal on every event. Many observers consider her to be the greatest gymnast of all time. Simone Arianne Biles was born on March 14, 1997, in Columbus, Ohio, the third of four siblings. Her birth mother, Shanon Biles, was unable to care for Biles or her other childrenAdria, Ashley and Tevindue to her alcohol and drug
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Simone Arianne Biles (born March 14, 1997) is an American artistic gymnast. Biles is the 2016 Olympic individual all-around, vault and floor gold medalist, and balance beam bronze medalist. She was part of the gold-medal-winning team dubbed the "Final Five" at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Biles is a four-time World all-around champion (2013–15, 2018), four-time World floor exercise champion (2013–15, 2018), two-time World balance
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also supports fellow American gymnast Aly Raisman and Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps. In November 2015 she became a Nike-sponsored athlete – announcing the news through Twitter. On November 23, 2015 Biles signed with GK Elite Sportswear to have an exclusive line of leotards. Later in 2015, Biles partnered with Core Power to become a new member of its Everyday Awesome team of athletes. In August 2016, Kellogg's put the Final Five's picture on the Gold Medal Edition of Special berries. On the backside it featured Simone Biles with
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Aly Raisman


There, she received the gold medal with the U.S. team and won individual bronze medals in the all-around (behind Simone Biles and Bailie Key), with a score of 59.100, and the floor exercise (behind Biles and Erika Fasana of Italy), with a score of 14.850. In June, she was named to the board of Boston's bid committee for the 2024 Summer Olympics. On July 25, Raisman competed at the U.S. Classic. She performed her Amanar vault for the first time since 2012 and scored
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with Szabo (ROM, 1984), Nadia Comaneci (ROM, 1976) and Karin Janz (East Germany, 1972). Olga Mostepanova (USSR) also won five gold medals at the Alternate Olympics in 1984. The overall record for most women's Olympic gymnastics medals at a single games (majority gold), remains six medals (Latynina, 1956, 1960 and 1964, Keleti, 1956, Caslavska, 1968, Daniela Silivas, 1988). Biles and her teammate Gabby Douglas are the only American female gymnasts to
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the individual all-around final in 23rd place. She did much better in the final, finishing in 9th, ahead of teammate Natsumi Sasada, who finished in 23rd. That final was won by Simone Biles of the United States. Teramoto also competed at a World Cup event in Glasgow, finishing 4th in the women's individual all-around, which was won by Larisa Iordache of Romania. At the 2014 Japanese National Championships, Teramoto became the uneven bars champion, as well as the all-around silver medalist behind
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her husband Bart Conner provided television commentary for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. A few years later, on July 21, 2012, Comăneci, along with former basketball star John Amaechi, carried the Olympic torch to the roof of the O2 Arena as part of the torch relay for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Prior to the 2016 Summer Olympics games in Rio de Janeiro (featuring gymnast Simone Biles), Comăneci appeared in a TIDE advertisement called "The Evolution of Power" with Biles and 1996 Summer Olympics gymnast Dominique
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in 2003, 2007, 2011, 2014, 2015, and 2018. Additionally, eight American women have won the individual World all-around title: Kim Zmeskal (1991), Shannon Miller (1993-1994), Chellsie Memmel (2005), Shawn Johnson (2007), Bridget Sloan (2009), Jordyn Wieber (2011), Simone Biles (2013-2015, 2018), and Morgan Hurd (2017). Biles is the only American gymnast to win both the Olympic and World all-around
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the balance beam, and 15.933 on the floor. Biles had the highest scores on vault, balance beam, and floor; she had the only score over 15 on balance beam in the finals. In the women's vault, she won her second individual gold medal with a score of 15.966, more than 0.7 points ahead of second-place finisher Maria Paseka of Russia and third-place finisher Giulia Steingruber of Switzerland. In the women's balance beam final, she grabbed the beam, scoring a 14.733. Despite her
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addiction, so the children were in and out of foster care. Biles' birth father, Kelvin Clemons, abandoned his family, struggled with addictions, and was never present in his daughter's life. With the help of his second wife, Nellie Cayetano Biles, Shanon's father Ron (who had two nearly-adult sons, Ron Jr. and Adam), began temporarily caring for Shanon's children in 2000, in the north Houston suburb of Spring, Texas, after finding out his grandchildren got placed into foster care
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with active lifestyles. In August 2017, Biles announced that she was in a relationship with Stacey Ervin Jr. who is director and head coach at the World Champions Centre. Together the couple adopted a French bulldog named Lilo. On January 18, 2018, Biles released a statement on Twitter confirming that former USA Gymnastics physician Larry Nassar sexually assaulted her. She also called out USA Gymnastics for having an alleged role in allowing the abuse to happen and for covering it up. She did not attend the court hearings that were held from
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Kocian both being brought onto the team to maximize their score on bars and to allow Simone Biles and Aly Raisman to qualify to the all-around final. She also posted the fourth highest score on floor, but did not advance to the final due to Biles and Raisman getting higher scores. August 9 was the Team All Around Finals meaning each country had 3 girls compete on each event and all scores counted. The US team, known as the Final Five, won the gold medal in the Team All Around. Hernandez
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, in international competition, she captured the individual all-around, balance beam and floor exercise titles at the 2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, in Glasgow, Scotland. As a result of her successes, she is the third most successful gymnast at a World Championships of all time, (by total medal count) trailing only Svetlana Khorkina and Gina Gogean but, has won more gold medals than any other gymnast in the history of the World Gymnastics Championships. As a result of forfeiting NCAA eligibility, Biles became eligible to take
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Katinka's story accurately without giving appropriate credit to Shane, and that's what I was trying to do." He also added that "with live TV, there are often times you look back and wished you had said things differently." The next day, Al Trautwig, was criticized for stating incorrect information about the parents of gymnast Simone Biles. On air, Trautwig stated that Ron Biles and Nellie Biles are Simone's grandparents that adopted her and her sister in 2001. Later on, Trautwig tweeted that Ron and
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Simone Di Pasquale


Simone Di Pasquale was born in Rome (Italy) on 27 February 1978. His artistic training began with the dance sport. From 2000 to 2008, paired with the ballerina Natalia Titova, he has successfully participated in numerous competitions. In 2004, the couple took: In 2005 he started to appear in the TV show "Dancing With The Stars", conducted by Milly Carlucci and broadcast on Saturday evening on RAI 1. He won the first edition paired with Hoara Borselli and continued to participate from 2006 to 2014. Between
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beam and floor exercise titles, and first national uneven bars title. Her 60.100 all-around score from the first day of competition was the first score recorded above 60 since her own all-around victory at the 2016 Olympics. She was named to her seventh national team and was invited to the October selection camp for the 2018 World Championships. During the 2018 Youth Olympic Games, the mixed multi-discipline teams were named after gymnastics legends including Nadia Comăneci and Kōhei Uchimura. The team named after Biles won gold. In
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Ludmilla Tourischeva


Championships, World Cup, and European Championships. She is also one of only two women to win four gold medals at a single World Championships (in 1974). The other is Simone Biles of the United States, who won four in 2014, 2015, and 2018. In 1977, Tourischeva married the sprinter Valeriy Borzov, a two-time Olympic champion in 1972. She was elected to the Women's Artistic Gymnastics Technical Committee of the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) in 1981, and has remained involved in gymnastics
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Tisha Campbell-Martin


In 2011, she starred opposite Ally Walker in the Lifetime police drama "The Protector". The series was canceled after a single season. In September 2015, she was cast in the ABC sitcom "Dr. Ken", starring Ken Jeong. The series was cancelled after two seasons in 2017. In the beginning of 2018, she played mother in the Lifetime "The Simone Biles Story: Courage to Soar ". Later in 2018, Campbell went to star on the ABC drama pilot "The Holmes Sisters" about the
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Marine Boyer


His, Oréane Lechenault, and Alison Lepin. At the age of sixteen, she competed at the 2016 Olympic Games with the goal of reaching a final. She made it into the balance beam final where she finished fourth with a score of 14.600, not far from bronze medalist Simone Biles who scored 14.733. At the 2018 Mediterranean Games in Tarragona, she won the beam title and the team silver medal. In August, she competed in the 2018 European Championships in Glasgow where the French team finished first in the qualification round
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Ksenia Afanasyeva


where she upgraded her difficulty to a 6.4 and scored 15.100 to win the silver medal behind the USA's Simone Biles. In December she competed at the Toyota International Cup in Japan, along with teammates Komova, Paseka, and Daria Spiridonova. She finished fifth on vault and won the floor final with a score of 14.500, ahead of Japan's Sae Miyakawa, who scored 14.450. Ksenia Afanasyeva's health problems continued, and in January it was announced that she was undergoing ankle surgery in Munich for the fourth time. In
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Morgan Hurd


all-around behind Simone Biles and Riley McCusker despite falling off the balance beam. She also finished third on uneven bars and floor exercise. In August Hurd competed at the National Championships where she placed second in the all-around behind Biles, third on uneven bars behind Biles and McCusker, and third on floor exercise behind Biles and Jade Carey. She also placed fourth on balance beam, making her and Biles the only competitors to place in the top four on every event they competed. She was named to the national
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Abdi Bile


most of people were nomadic. He finished his high school in a school located in Erigavo. Abdi Bile started running when he first heard of the Somali runner Jamac Karacin who got scholarship into the US. This was when running became his hobby. When Abdi was a kid he was very interested in football or soccer. Abdi Bile was a great runner but not the only runner in his family. There were many of his other siblings who were interested in running at that time. Bile won the 1500 m World Championship in
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in Chemnitz, Germany. At Jesolo, she won gold medals in the team and uneven bars competitions, and silvers in the all-around and on balance beam. At the Chemnitz meet, she contributed to the U.S.'s first-place finish and won the all-around with a total score of 59.300, thus becoming the last gymnast to beat Simone Biles at an international all-around competition. At the Secret U.S. Classic in July, Ross won gold medals in the all-around and on uneven bars and a
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Laureus World Sports Award for Sportswoman of the Year


to be "the world's dominant sprinter". She later admitted to having taken performance-enhancing drugs and, along with being stripped of her Olympic medals by the International Olympic Committee in 2007, her Laureus Award and nominations (2001 and 2003) were rescinded. The 2019 winner of the Laureus World Sports Award for Sportswoman of the Year was the American gymnast Simone Biles who has won the award twice in three years. Sportswomen from athletics are the most successful overall, with seven wins and thirty-one nominations (excluding
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and graduated in the summer of 2015. Biles verbally committed to UCLA on August 4, 2014, announcing her decision on Twitter. She planned to defer enrollment until after the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. In November 2014, Biles signed her National Letter of Intent with UCLA. However, on July 29, 2015, she announced that she would turn professional, forfeiting her NCAA eligibility to compete for UCLA. In January 2018, it was announced that Biles had enrolled at the University of the People to study business
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Douglas, Laurie Hernandez, Madison Kocian and Aly Raisman. In September 2016, Biles's medical information was released following the Russian cyber espionage group Fancy Bear's hack into the World Anti Doping Agency. Biles then disclosed on Twitter that she has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and was permitted to take medication for it, having applied for and received a Therapeutic Use Exemption. Biles appeared with gymnasts Dominique Dawes and Nadia Comăneci in a commercial for Tide called "The Evolution of Power" prior to the 2016 Summer Olympics. On August 7
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one of her gold medals from Rio. After the 2016 Rio games, Biles received endorsements from Procter & Gamble, The Hershey Company, and United Airlines. In September 2016, Biles signed with Mattress Firm as a spokesperson for the company's program of supporting foster homes. In 2016, Biles partnered with Spieth America to create a line of gymnastics equipment, and partnered with Beats By Dr Dre, becoming a brand ambassador. In 2018 she became a brand ambassador and collaborated with Caboodles to create a collection of products for women
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January 16 to 24, 2018 because she was not emotionally ready to face her abuser again. On January 24, 2018 Nassar was sentenced to 40–175 years in prison by Judge Rosemarie Aquilina. In May 2018, it was announced that Biles and the other survivors would be awarded the Arthur Ashe Courage Award. At the 2018 U.S. National Championships Biles designed and wore a teal leotard that she stated was meant to honor the survivors of the scandal and make a statement of unification. Biles is well known for her performance of difficult skills
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The Voice (American season 3)


week, going up against "The X Factor" on September 12, 2012. This show was highly criticised by Simon Cowell, who said that "The X Factor" would win in ratings. However, both "The Voice" and "The X Factor" tied on September 12, 2012, both with a 3.4 rating in the 18–49 demographic, but "The Voice" won in total viewers. In its regular time slot on Mondays and Tuesdays, "The Voice" airs opposite "Dancing with the Stars"
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administration and become the university's brand ambassador. Biles first tried gymnastics at 6 years old as part of a day-care field trip. The instructors suggested she continue with gymnastics. Biles soon enrolled in an optional training program at Bannon's Gymnastix. She began training with coach Aimee Boorman at age 8. Biles began her elite career on July 1, 2011, at the 2011 American Classic in Houston. She placed third all-around, first on vault and balance beam, fourth on floor exercise, and eighth on
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uneven bars. Later that month, Biles competed at the 2011 U.S. Classic in Chicago, Illinois, where she placed twentieth all-around, fifth on balance beam and floor exercise. Biles' first meet of 2012 was again the American Classic in Huntsville, Texas, where she placed first all-around and on vault, tied for second on floor exercise, placed third on balance beam and fourth on uneven bars. Biles' placement in the American Classic secured her a spot to compete at the 2012 USA Gymnastics National Championships
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from 2001–2016. Biles' senior international debut was in March at the 2013 American Cup, a FIG World Cup event. She and Katelyn Ohashi were named as replacements for Elizabeth Price and 2012 Olympic gold medalist Kyla Ross, both of whom withdrew from the competition because of injuries. Biles led for two rotations but finished second behind her teammate, Ohashi, after a fall off the beam. Biles immediately went on to compete at the 2013 City of Jesolo Trophy in Jesolo, Italy, where she took the all-around,
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, Biles secured her third all-around national title, becoming only the second woman ever to do so, 23 years after Kim Zmeskal (1990, 1991, 1992). Biles, along with Douglas, Dowell, Kocian, Nichols, Raisman, and Skinner, was selected to represent the United States at the 2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Glasgow, Scotland. Biles once again qualified in first place in the all-around, vault, beam, and floor finals. Her uneven bars score would have qualified her in
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her world title on both events by large margins. This brought Biles' total World Championships medal count to 14, the most for any American, and total gold medal count to 10, the most for any woman in World Championships history. Biles went into the 2016 season as a fourth-year senior and the reigning National champion. On December 17, 2015, USA Gymnastics announced that she would compete at the 2016 Pacific Rim Gymnastics Championships, in April 2016 in Everett, Washington. In April, Biles began her season
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Carlotta Ferlito


team final. After American gymnast Simone Biles, who is African-American, won the bronze medal on balance beam at the 2013 World Championships, Ferlito said in a video interview that she had told Italian teammate Vanessa Ferrari "that next time we should also paint our skin black, so then we can win, too." Ferlito later apologized on Twitter. Two years later, at the 2015 European Championships, Ferlito was excluded from the all-around final because of the two-per-country rule and narrowly missed
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Grace McCallum


(2017) and Mai Murakami of Japan (2018), who tied for third place. At February’s team training camp, McCallum placed first in the all-around ahead of the other national team members. At the 2019 GK US Classic in July, McCallum placed third in the all-around behind Simone Biles and Riley McCusker. She also tied for third on bars with McCusker and behind Morgan Hurd and Sunisa Lee, placed fifth on beam, and tied for second on floor with Jade Carey and behind Biles.
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Aly Raisman


who placed third behind Raisman but was bumped due to the two-per-country rule. Raisman also qualified to the floor exercise final (with a score of 15.275, again behind Biles), where she was the defending Olympic champion from the London Games. She also posted one of the highest beam scores in qualification, an event she was the defending Olympic bronze medalist, but due to the two-per-country rule was bumped from event finals by her teammates Simone Biles and Laurie Hernandez. On the second day
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professionalism. In 2000 he opened in Rome his dance school "Klassic Dance Studio", which in 2008 became "Star Dance Academy". In 2011 Simone founded the company "Twister Entertainment Srl", which he currently holds. The company deals with the organization of events and initiatives aimed at dance and entertainment, addressed both at public events, both for private / business events. In 2012 Simone started a training program "Latin Up®" - a combination of Latin American dance steps with an aerobic workout - and the
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Final Five (gymnastics)


. Biles, Raisman, Douglas, and Kocian were all part of the 2015 World Championship gold medal winning team. Biles won gold in the all-around and Douglas won the silver. Biles also won gold on floor exercise and balance beam and won bronze on the vault. Kocian won gold on the uneven bars in a four way tie. Thus making Biles the reigning world champion in all-around, floor, and balance beam and Kocian the reigning world co-champion on the uneven bars going into the Olympics.
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Vanessa Parise


and for "The Simone Biles Story" in 2019. Her television movie "The Simone Biles Story" was nominated for Best Television Movie and Best Lead Actress by the NAACP Awards in 2019. Parise is currently the co-executive producer and directing producer on Charmed"." She directed the Tim Kring series "Beyond," for which she was nominated for a Leo Award for Best Direction in 2018, and episodes of the Amazon series "Just Add Magic". She has also directed the new series "Andi Mack
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Black Girl Magic


Manuel's gold medal for the women's 100-meter freestyle in swimming was a monumental event considering the legacy of racial discrimination of Black people in swimming pools. Bustle magazine highlighted the 2016 Rio Olympics as an important moment for Black Girl Magic, as Simone Biles, Simone Manuel, Lia Neal, Michelle Carter, Allyson Felix, Gabby Douglas, Sloane Stephens, and Ashleigh Johnson competed in various events and many of these women won medals. Dominique Dawes, Tidye Pickett, and Louise Stokes were also included as inspirational Black women athletes.
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Flávia Saraiva


by Jade Barbosa so that she could focus on the beam final. In the balance beam final, Flavia was last to compete. After having several big wobbles, she placed 5th behind Marine Boyer of France (4th) and Simone Biles of USA (3rd). She was the shortest athlete in the games. In 2018 she was selected for the Pan American team. There she won a silver with the Brazilian team and ones on floor exercise and beam. She also won a bronze in the all around. She was
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Giulia Steingruber


of 14.666. On 11 August, Steingruber competed in the Individual All-Around Finals, where she finished in 10th with a score of 57.565. On 14 August, she won the bronze medal on vault with an average of 15.216, 0.037 behind silver medalist Maria Paseka of Russia (15.253). American Simone Biles won the vault title with an average of 15.966. Steingruber's bronze is the first ever Olympic medal of any color for Switzerland in women's gymnastics, and the first Olympic medal for a gymnast native to Switzerland
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Katelyn Ohashi


double-double dismount. Her winning beam routine, one of the most difficult in the world, featured a full-twisting back layout, a standing Arabian, an Onodi and a piked full-in dismount. She also won floor with a routine that included a piked full-in and a two-and-a-half twist to front full. On vault, she performed a double-twisting Yurchenko and finished fourth. Ohashi won the 2013 American Cup in March, defeating U.S. teammate Simone Biles. In April
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Simone Biles


also ahead of Nichols and Bailie Key. She had a small hop on her Amanar vault and scored a 16.000. She then scored 15.150 on her second vault, to score an average of 15.575 and place first in the event, ahead of 2014 Worlds vault bronze medalist and teammate MyKayla Skinner, who averaged 14.950. Biles ended on bars and scored a 15.100 to claim the all-around title. She placed fourth in the event behind 2014 Worlds teammate Madison Kocian, Douglas, and Key. At the 2015 U.S. National Championships
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Oliver Biles


Oliver Biles (born 15 March 1990) is a British-born Eurasian actor and poker player. Biles trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in London, before his debut role in the 2011's Yellow Earth Theatre production of Why the Lion Danced, which toured the UK. Biles worked again with Yellow Earth Theatre on "Dim Sum Nights - The Clean Up", opposite Jessica Henwick. In the same year Biles made his screen debut in the children's show "House of Anubis", on Nickelodeon. In 2012
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Grace McCallum


with Shania Adams. In August McCallum competed at the National Championships where she placed fourth in the all-around, behind Simone Biles, Morgan Hurd, and Riley McCusker. She also finished fourth on floor exercise, sixth on uneven bars, and fifth on balance beam. On August 20 McCallum was named to the team to compete at the Pan American Championships alongside Jade Carey, Trinity Thomas, Kara Eaker, and Shilese Jones. There she won gold in the team finals, all-around, and uneven bars and won
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Lavinia Miloșovici


eighth in the uneven bars final. She originally qualified for the beam final, but was replaced by her teammate Alexandra Marinescu. Overall, she won a total of 26 Olympic, World and European medals in her career, with 11 of them gold. She is currently ranked fifth in terms of the total number of medals won at the World Championships, behind Simone Biles, Svetlana Khorkina, Gina Gogean and Larisa Latynina. Miloșovici announced her official retirement in the summer of 1997. After retiring, she returned to Lugoj to coach
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Yao Jinnan


selected to compete at the 2014 World Championships in Nanning, where she won the team silver with Huang, Shang, Tan Jiaxin, Bai Yawen and Chen Siyi. Individually, she finished fifth in the all-around, where Simone Biles of the United States won gold; first in the uneven bars final, her first gold medal at a World Championships, with a score of 15.633; and eighth in the balance beam finals. She was awarded the Longines Prize for Elegance and received a trophy, a Longines watch and US$
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Brenna Dowell


per country rule. Officially, Shallon Olsen of Canada earned that spot, however it will be noted by the selection committee for the 2016 U.S Olympic team that she did indeed earn the fourth highest score behind U.S teammates, Aly Raisman, Simone Biles and Laurie Hernandez. Dowell also qualified in second place to the Uneven Bars final, after displaying an impressive set on night 1 of competition. Also, after Simone Biles, was withdrawn from event finals, Dowell also earned a spot in the Floor Exercise final. In event finals
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Simon Barnett


Simon Barnett (born 23 March 1967) is a radio and television host and presenter in New Zealand. Barnett co-hosted the morning show on Christchurch radio station 92 More FM with Gary McCormick until 2018, and previously with Phil Gifford. He has hosted a breakfast slot on 91ZM, worked for Radio Nelson and has acted, appearing in a New Zealand feature film "Ruby and Rata" (1990). Barnett also won the 2015 series of the New Zealand version of "Dancing with The Stars". Barnett was
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