Simone Biles wins silver in floor exercise at Paris Olympics, becomes most decorated American gymnast
Simone Biles won silver in the floor exercise at the Paris Olympics, earning her 11th medal and 7th gold, closing in on Larisa Latynina’s 9 golds.
Artistic gymnastics at the Paris Olympic Games came to a dramatic end Monday, as Simone Biles won the silver medal in the floor exercise final.
She won her 11th Olympic medal and seventh gold in Paris, leaving her within striking range of Soviet legend Larisa Latynina’s nine golds, the most of any gymnast.
Brazil's Rebeca Andrade bested Biles for the floor gold, becoming the nation's most decorated Olympian. In one of the most dramatic twists of the Games, Jordan Chiles won her first individual Olympic medal after appealing her score, adding a floor bronze to her two team medals: a Paris gold and a silver in Tokyo.
"Obviously, it wasn't my best performance," Biles said after the meet. "But at the end of the day, whoever medaled, medaled, and that's what's so exciting, because you just never know, it's gymnastics."
"I've accomplished way more than my wildest dreams, not just at this Olympics, but in the sport, so I can't be mad at my performances," she added. "A couple years ago, I didn't think I'd be back here at an Olympic Games, so competing and then walking away with four medals ... I'm pretty proud of myself."
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