Led by Simone Biles, the U.S. women have won a record seventh consecutive team title at the gymnastics world championships. The American team of Biles, Shilese Jones, Skye Blakely and Leanne Wong combined for a total of 167.729 points to edge Brazil and France.

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 U.S. women’s team and the greatest gymnast in history.

The U.S. women earned a record seventh consecutive team title at the gymnastics world championships on Wednesday night. For Biles, it was also her 33rd major championship medal — across the worlds and Olympics — to make her the most decorated female gymnast ever.

And it’s fitting that it came in Antwerp, the Belgian port city where Biles came to international prominence 10 years ago by winning her first world title in 2013.

  • runjun@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    1 year ago

    Simone is just a monster athlete. Brings me no end to my joy knowing she’s still out there killing it after all the chuds were bad mouthing her.

  • be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social
    6·
    1 year ago

    I wonder if I’m going to find posts from the rightwingers about what a great recovery she’s made in anywhere near the volume that I saw their posts about how she let the US down at the Olympics. (And I don’t know why that was a left/right phenomenon, but somehow it was.) (Actually I do have a guess.)

    In any case, I feel very sure without even looking that I will find much less attention paid to her from those folks now that she’s succeeding again.