American Simone Biles won the gold medal in the women's general classification final of the artistic gymnastics branch of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Simon Biles is among the most important athletes in gymnastics history.
American gymnast Simone Biles, who performed the floor, asymmetrical parallel, balance beam, and vault exercises, won the gold medal with 59.131 points.
World-famous American female gymnast Simone Biles, who decided to withdraw from the two finals of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games due to mental difficulties, has previously overcome many obstacles in her private life.
Simone Biles, who has been going through a difficult period in her career, is no stranger to these situations. The athlete, who encountered very difficult events in her private life and sports career at an early age, managed to overcome these obstacles successfully.
Grew up in foster care
Simone Biles, born on March 14, 1997, in Columbus, Ohio, USA, had a difficult childhood.
Her financially poor mother could not meet the needs of Shannon, Simone, and her 3 siblings, and had to leave them all to foster families after their birth.
Simone Arianne Biles Owens (born March 14, 1997) is an American artistic gymnast. Her nine Olympic medals and 30 World Championship medals make her the most decorated gymnast in history, and she is widely considered one of the greatest gymnasts of all time. With nine Olympic medals, she is the fifth-most decorated female Olympic gymnast, and has the most Olympic medals earned by a U.S. gymnast.
Her grandfather Ron, who was in a better financial situation, took over the care of Simone along with her sister Adria when she was 3 years old. Simone, whose talent in gymnastics was discovered by her teachers during a student camp when she was 6 years old, was directed to this sport with the support of her family.
Simone Biles, who started participating in national championships in 2011, was selected for the national team a year later. Biles, who made many mistakes in her first races and could not achieve successful results, was able to get a quota for the main squad after the injuries of the experienced members of the national team, Olympic champion Kyla Ross and Elizabeth Price.
Biles quickly took off in her career and won her first gold medal in the national team in 2013, when she was only 16 years old.
Biles, who later became the country's best gymnast by returning with a medal from almost every championship she participated in, this time became the victim of one of the biggest scandals in the US healthcare sector in recent years.
She was a victim of sexual harassment
Biles, who was among those victimized by Larry Nassar, the former doctor of the USA Gymnastics Team, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for making sexual concessions to over 250 young children during treatment between 1998 and 2015, testified in court.
The US gymnast, who also made a statement to the press about the issue at that time, said, "I am not afraid to tell my story. I love this sport very much and I will never give up. I will not allow a man or those who enable him to steal my love and joy" made her assessment.
Biles, who has been selected as the athlete of the year many times in awards given by prestigious institutions such as Laureus and Time with the records she broke and the medals she won, won 4 gold and one bronze medal at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games and became the most successful athlete in the history of US gymnastics when she was only 19 years old.
She broke many important records
Biles, who has 19 gold, 3 silver, and bronze medals in the world championships, broke the record of 12 gold medals in the world championships, which was broken by the world-famous Belarusian male gymnast Vitaly Scherbo in 1996 when she was only 21 years old.
Biles, who is the gymnast who won the most medals in the world championships, had a total of 30 medals in the world championships and the Olympics. (Until the 2024 Olympics.) If Simone Biles wins 4 more medals in these tournaments, she will become the gymnast with the most medals of all time, passing Scherbo (33) and Russian Larisa Latynina (32).