Simone Biles

GymmieJane: how does she win 5 Golds ?@? if she doesn't compete on the UnevenBars - or does she do all events + team gold ??

Simone Biles could win a record five golds

She already has 14 world championship medals, 10 of which are gold—more than any female gymnast in world championships history—and she’s heavily favored to win the all-around title and team gold with the U.S. women at the Rio Olympics. Plus, she competes some of the most difficult skills in gymnastics, including her own eponymous skill, the Biles: two back flips in the laid-out body position with a half twist right before the landing.
Should be more than enough for Biles to cement her reputation as the greatest female gymnast ever, right? Not when there are four more Olympic medals up for grabs (one for each apparatus) and Biles could conceivably win three of them. Biles is the reigning world champion on beam and floor, and with a new high-difficulty vault in her arsenal, she’s a strong contender there, too. If she wins five total gold medals in her Olympic debut, Biles will make gymnastics history.

Simone could conceivably win 5 Gold medals if you count Team Gold.  Team Gold for USA is almost assured.  AA Gold and Floor Gold almost assured for Simone.  Beam and vault gold possible, not highly likely.  Actually, now that Simone is competing a cheng a Gold on vault is more likely than ever.  But its not the slam dunk Floor and AA Gold is for her.  Beam?  You can just never predict  that one.  She for sure has the ability to medal on Beam.  So does laurie hernandez.  Angelina Melnikova from Russia and Shang Chunsong from China are in the mix as well.  Any one of them could take Gold.  Aly Raisman is in there too,b tu I suspect she will be twofered by laurie and Simone on Beam.  beam is just too hard to predict.  

She will not make the UB finals nor will she compete UB in the Team competition but she will of course do UB in Qualifications.

OK.  So Hong Un Jong (North Korea) threw a TTY in training today.  It was assisted --  she got what appears to be a big boost from her coach on the post-flight -- but still . . . . .

She won Gold on vault in 2008 but then there was all that stuff about discrepancies in her age and North korea was banned from 2012 because of it.  She took Gold on Vault in worlds in 2014 (and then silver in 2015 )

But with a TTY -- assuming she can compete it next week -- that will be a big challenge to Simone.  Personally, I do not think she will compete it, but we will see.

Feces.Hurling.Monkey wrote:Check out the guns on Gabby - dang, she could pound me like a chicken cutlet:

 

She could. . . .  If she wanted to. . . . .  Which I can assure you she does not.  

GymGirlJane wrote:

Feces.Hurling.Monkey wrote:Check out the guns on Gabby - dang, she could pound me like a chicken cutlet:

 

She could. . . .  If she wanted to. . . . .  Which I can assure you she does not.  

You sure?