The final image of the 2024 Olympic women’s gymnastics competition captured an iconic moment: Simone Biles and her U.S. teammate Jordan Chiles—both of whom train at Biles’s World Champions Centre in Spring, Texas—kneeling from the silver and bronze steps on the medal podium, toward Brazil’s Rebeca Andrade on the gold level with her arms raised and her smile stretched ear to ear. In the last event, floor exercise, the Brazilian gymnast managed to edge Biles for the title, winning the gold medal that had eluded her throughout these Olympics. This is the first time that Biles has ever lost the floor gold in World Championship or Olympic competition. But judging from the display of admiration on the medal podium, Biles didn’t seem too upset about…
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