Simone Biles chases more history this week, as she and the other top male and female gymnasts from around the globe compete in the 2018 Gymnastics World Championships in Doha. All of the men’s and women’s senior competitions (team, individual all-around and apparatus finals) will be broadcast live on the Olympic Channel, with some replayed coverage on NBC Sports Network. You can find a complete broadcast schedule at the bottom of this page. If you don’t have cable or can’t get to a TV, you can watch a live stream of the Olympic Channel and NBC Sports Network on your computer, phone or streaming device by signing up for one of the following cable-free, live-TV streaming services. With any of these services, you can either watch the 2018 Gymnastics World Championships live as it airs, or you can DVR it. 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Preview As with pretty much every international–and most domestic–tournament these days, all eyes will be on Simone Biles, who looks to further strengthen her resume in the debate of greatest gymnast of all-time. Returning from a two-year post-Olympics break in July, Biles slipped off the uneven bars but was still dominant enough everyone else to capture the all-around gold at the U.S. Classic. A month later, she put on a transcendent performance at the U.S. Championships, becoming the first woman since Dominique Dawes (1994) to win all five golds (floor, balance beam, uneven bars, vault, individual all-around) at nationals. Now, as she gets set to take on the world in Doha this week, she has her eyes set on more records. A gold in the all-around would make her the first woman in history to capture four all-around World titles, while three golds overall would give her 13 in her career and push her past Vitaly Scherbo for most golds–male or female–all-time at worlds. Of course, she instead has her sights set on something she has never accomplished at the World Championships before: A medal in the uneven bars. “I’ve never medaled in a bar final [uneven bars], but I’ve only been in one,” Biles said. “Maybe if I could make a bar final, that would be pretty cool because I think of all the medals you can get and the finals you can participate in, I always admire the bar workers just because it’s so hard mentally and physically.” Joining Biles on the stacked United States team are 2017 world champion Morgan Hurd, 2018 U.S. all-around silver medalist Riley McCusker and 2016 Olympic alternate Ragan Smith, all of whom have a good chance to earn some hardware this weekend. 2018 Pan Am all-around champ Grace McCallum and 2018 Pan Am balance beam champion Kara Eaker are also on the squad that is favored in the team competition. Over on the men’s side, Japan’s Kohei Uchimura, the six-time all-around World champion, not expected to compete in every event. China’s Xiao Ruoteng captured gold at worlds last year and is considered the favorite to repeat, but countryman Lin Chaopan–who took silver at worlds–recently beat Xiao at the 2018 Asian Games in August. Japan’s Shogo Nonomura finished second in that competition and should also be right in contention. For the United States, who are hoping to get a male on the all-around podium for the first time since Jonathan Horton’s bronze in 2010, two-time Olympian Sam Mikulak is healthy again and enters after having won his fifth U.S. title, while Yul Moldauer had the United States’ best finish–seventh–at last year’s worlds. 2018 World Gymnastics Championships Schedule<doc-sep>Gymnastics fans often joke about how many times Simone Biles could fall in competition and still win. At today’s women’s all-around competition at the 2018 World Gymnastics Championships in Qatar, they found out that the answer is at least two. Simone fell twice during today's world all-around final, but still easily walked away with the title. Not only that, but she also made history by becoming the first female gymnast to win four world all-around titles. Despite the outcome, it isn’t “all’s well that ends well” for Simone, who wasn’t thrilled with her performance. “I’m a little disappointed in my performance because I know I can do better...hopefully in [event] finals I’ll get to redeem myself,” she told The Gymternet after the competition. “It was very uncharacteristic some of the things that I did out there tonight, but then we still have event finals so I’m excited for those to come.” Simone will compete in all four individual event finals at these world championships, beginning with the vault final on Friday. These finals will give Simone the opportunity to improve on today’s performance, but they’re also a chance to make history again: If she medals in each category, she will match the record for most world medals for a female gymnast. Plus, if she earns a gold medal from each event final, she will become the first woman to ever sweep a world championships. It would be all the more remarkable for her to do this in her current condition: Simone is competing with a large kidney stone that she’s dubbed the “Doha Pearl,” which can’t be treated until after worlds. However, she said the pain wasn’t an issue at today’s competition: “If it were a challenge for me, I wouldn’t have competed at all,” she told USA Today. Even with the kidney stone, going into today’s all-around the outcome was all but sealed, with Simone’s difficulty scores putting her at a great advantage in the competition. She began on vault, where fans were shocked to see her fall on her back after landing her brand new skill, one that will be called the Biles. Then, after a near-flawless uneven bars routine, Simone fell again on a difficult skill on the balance beam. She finished off the day with her always powerful and entertaining floor routine to clinch the gold medal by 1.693 points, her largest margin of victory in a world all-around competition. Mai Murakami of Japan finished the competition in second, a record finish for her country, and 2017 world all-around champion Morgan Hurd took the bronze medal after mistakes on the balance beam. Both had excellent days, but had no chance of beating Simone. While her errors today show that she’s human, no one can question she’s still in a league of her own. Mai seems to agree: After the competition, she told The Gymternet, “When Simone fell twice I wasn’t thinking I could win. I was thinking...SIMONE CAN FALL? !” The only one Simone is competing against is herself (and maybe her kidney stone). And she’s assured fans that she won’t let herself be beat again: “Didn’t mean to give everyone a heart attack,” Simone tweeted after the competition. “I apologize. I won’t do that again.” Related: Simone Biles Dominated the World Championships Hours After Being in the ER<doc-sep>Simone Biles always wins. USA Gymnastics would do well to remember what her competitors learned years ago — and will be reminded of Saturday, when the women’s competition at the world gymnastics championships begin. Biles can bend gravity to her will, and she has shown in recent months that that power is not limited to the competition floor. With USA Gymnastics somehow still incapable of getting out of its own way two years after the Larry Nassar scandal began unfolding, its continued missteps making an already awful situation even worse, Biles has emerged as its most influential critic. The best decisions USA Gymnastics has made in recent months — closing the Karolyi ranch, getting rid of an interim CEO who had no business being hired in the first place — only came after prodding from the reigning Olympic champion. “You have to stand up for what you believe in,” Biles said recently. This is not a position Biles asked for or likely even wants. She is 21 years old. Her job is to be an athlete and she’s darned good at it, the greatest gymnast of her and every other generation. More:Sources: Steve Penny ordered document removal at ranch More:How many more times is USA Gymnastics going to fail? Unless her bus somehow gets lost on the way to the arena in Doha, Biles will lead the Americans to their fourth consecutive world title, securing a spot at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in the process, and then become the first woman to claim four all-around titles. Only Japan’s Kohei Uchimura, with his six world titles, will have more. Biles is also one of the more than 350 women who have said they were abused by Nassar. It is long past time that USA Gymnastics looked out for her needs. Yet that isn’t happening. Whether it’s simple ineptitude or concern about affecting the outcome of pending lawsuits, USA Gymnastics has repeatedly made decisions that are both tone-deaf and hurtful to the Nassar survivors, to say nothing of the current athletes, and there’s no indication anyone in charge has the good sense to recognize that. So it is left to Biles to fill the leadership void, and she’s done it with the same great effect she’s had on the competition floor. USA Gymnastics somehow thought it was a good idea to continue holding training camps at the Karolyi ranch, where some of the survivors said they were abused. Only when Biles said on Instagram that she, too, was a survivor and the idea of returning to the ranch “breaks my heart even more” did the federation close it down. Former CEO Kerry Perry, who never encountered a situation she couldn’t bungle, responded with a meaningless word salad when asked if USA Gymnastics planned to do anything during the national championships to honor survivors. Later that day, Biles took the floor in a teal leotard, the color designated to honor sexual abuse survivors. And when USA Gymnastics hired an interim CEO without either knowing or caring — I’m not sure which is worse — that she’d taken shots at Nike for its support of Colin Kaepernick, it was Biles who pointed out the obvious. A federation desperate for sponsors, particularly one that can provide, oh, say, apparel, has no business alienating anyone. “I said what I said,” Biles said afterward. “Maybe after Doha, I’ll be open to more questions about that.” Hear that USA Gymnastics? USA Gymnastics needs Biles a lot more than she needs USA Gymnastics. She is the sport’s biggest star, and consistently presents one of the federation’s few positive images. Her return to competition has brought some of the attention back to the sport itself, and that will only grow as the Tokyo Olympics get closer. Should she win the all-around in Tokyo — again, make sure the bus drivers know where they’re going — she will be the first woman to defend her Olympic title since Vera Caslavska in 1968. And have I mentioned yet that Biles’ mother is from Belize? Not that she would make the switch, but it doesn’t hurt to remind USA Gymnastics that Biles has options. USA Gymnastics should rid itself of its rot and make protecting and supporting its athletes its priority because it’s the right thing to do. Until the federation gets leaders who understand that, however, Biles will be there to hold them accountable. She is the best USA Gymnastics has. In so many ways. *** Follow USA TODAY Sports columnist Nancy Armour on Twitter @nrarmour.<doc-sep>
DOHA, Qatar — The scoreboard is only half the measuring stick for the U.S. women. If that was all they cared about, they could show up to the world championships and Olympics, give an OK effort and still saunter off with the gold medal. That’s the level of depth and talent the U.S. women have. But it’s not enough. Not when you’re a team that has produced the Fierce Five and the Final Five. A team that has gone eight years now without a loss at a major international meet, a streak dating back to the 2011 world championships. Winning has become the expectation, but perfection is the goal. “We hold ourselves to high expectations every time we step on the mat,” Simone Biles said Tuesday after the Americans won their fourth consecutive title at the world gymnastics championships, locking up a spot at the Tokyo Olympics in 2020 in the process. “Even when we have mistakes, you can see us get a little bit upset. Everybody is like, 'It's fine, you guys are going to win anyway.’ But it's our personal performances, how we feel, rather than the scoreboard." More:Competing with kidney stone, Simone Biles' performance is that of a legend More:The names are familiar but the uniforms are different for longtime US coaches Which is bad news for the rest of the world. The Americans had three major mistakes yet still steamrolled their competition, beating Russia by a whopping 8.766 points. To get an idea of how ridiculous the gap is, go find the halftime score of that game between the Golden State Warriors and the Chicago Bulls on Monday night. Yeah. Like that. It was the largest margin of victory at a worlds or Olympics, by a men’s or women’s team, since gymnastics abandoned its 10.0 scoring system in 2006. It was so large that Germany, which finished last in the eight-team final, was actually closer to the Russians (3.435 points) than the Russians were to the Americans. “It shows how strong the group of girls are and how strong Team USA is,” Biles said. “Anything you guys throw at us, we'll try and work even harder to improve ourselves and our scores for the team." USA Gymnastics remains a flaming dumpster fire, unable to find its way forward from the crisis created by the revelation that Larry Nassar, the longtime team physician for the federation and Michigan State, had sexually abused more than 300 gymnasts. USA Gymnastics has gone through three CEOs – one of whom lasted all of five days – in the last two years, and Tom Forster is the second national team coordinator since Martha Karolyi retired after the Rio Olympics. Yet the athletes have managed to not only maintain their focus but find a way to rise above all the noise. There is a standard to maintain, and while the adults might not be able to do their jobs, the gymnasts sure are going to. “I think I can speak for all of us when I say that it feels absolutely amazing,” Morgan Hurd said. It helps that the Americans have Biles, the greatest gymnast of her and every other generation. Even with a mistake on floor exercise – she got so much height on her first tumbling pass she bounced way out of bounds – she scored a 14.766, the highest mark on the event by almost a point. She also had the highest scores on vault and uneven bars, despite still feeling pain from the kidney stone that kept her in the emergency room until 1 a.m. the night before qualifying. But her teammates can hold their own, too. Kara Eaker is on the team to do one event, balance beam, and she delivered once again with the highest score on it. Riley McCusker, who likely would have been banished under the old regime after her rough performance in qualifying, rebounded with the third-highest score of the night on uneven bars and fifth-best on balance beam. All totaled, the United States had all three scores in the top nine on three events. “I was ready to come in today and kill it,” McCusker said. “I’m definitely a changed gymnast after this. I feel like I have so much experience now that I can just pull from. I think it’ll help us a lot in the future.” And therein lies the secret. The Americans don’t rebuild, they reload.