By: Kyle Xu

On Thursday of the Paris Olympics this year, Simone Biles took gold in the all-around gymnastics competition, flipping and jumping and dazzling the crowd to win her second Olympic title and defeating Brazilian Rebeca Andrade, the silver medalist, by an entire point.

First, Simone Biles performed the Yurchenko double pike vault, which has the highest difficulty and had never been performed in gymnastics history. This move is one of her trademarks on the vault, and placed her eight-tenths ahead of Andrade, her rival.

But Bile couldn’t continue the lead as an unfortunate mistake on the uneven bars cost her first place. She then dropped down to third.

On the balance beam, Biles remained completely stable while others shook and wobbled, and immediately took the lead by a couple of tenths of a point.

By now, although there was still one more section of the all-around competition, the floor, Biles had virtually won the race. With her one-of-a-kind floor routine which included many moves named after her, she swept the field, extended her lead, and held on to the gold. The routine included a half-twisting double backflip with a straight body and a triple-twisting double back flip with knees tucked – both of which are moves that only Simone Biles is known to do.

Andrade took silver while Sunisa Lee, Simone Biles’s USA teammate and champion at the Tokyo Games, took the bronze medal. Sunisa Lee had a rocky start on the vault but made up some ground on the bars. However, on the floor, she landed such a great double back flip that she wore a wide and disbelieving smile on her face after the flip.

Throughout the Olympics, Biles has proven that she can do anything – from vaults to tricks on the parallel bar – and undoubtedly win.