Simone Biles is running out of historical thresholds to cross.
The 27-year-old American gymnast led the United States to team gold in the women’s gymnastics final on Tuesday, winning the medal with her floor routine. Italy took silver.
For Biles, Tuesday’s gold medal is her eighth Olympic medal overall, making her the most decorated Olympic gymnast in U.S. history, passing “The Magnificent Seven” star Shannon Miller for the most career Olympic medals.
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Simone Biles looks at her gold medal after the women’s team final at the Paris 2024 Olympics. (Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports)
Miller last competed at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, where she also led the United States to the team gold medal. Miller also won an individual gold medal on balance beam that year, her only two Olympic gold medals.
Biles has now won five Olympic gold medals. She already held the record for most gold medals by an American gymnast, having won four at the Rio Olympics.
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If Biles pulls off a similar performance in Paris, she could potentially try to break the world record for career gold medals by a female gymnast. That record is currently held by former Soviet gymnast Larisa Latynina, who has nine in total.
With five wins, Biles has a chance to catch Latynina in Paris. Biles qualified for four individual finals: all-around, vault, balance beam and floor exercise.
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Gold medalists Jordan Chiles, Sunisa Lee, Simone Biles, Hezly Rivera and Jade Carey of Team USA pose with the Olympic rings during the medal ceremony for the Artistic Gymnastics Women’s Team Final on day four of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at Bercy Arena on July 30, 2024 in Paris, France. (Naomi Baker/Getty Images)
If she medals in all of those events, gold or not, she could also catch another American in career medal totals. Former track and field athlete Allyson Felix is the only non-swimmer American with more Olympic medals than Biles, with 11.
Biles is on the verge of making history despite her performance at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics being a bust after she withdrew from the competition due to a case of “hamstring strain.” She only came home with a team silver medal after that thanks to her teammates.
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There was no guarantee that Biles would be back in Paris this summer after withdrawing from Tokyo due to her age. At 27, she is the oldest gymnast to win an Olympic gold medal and five years older than Aly Raismanm, who previously held the record for oldest gold medalist.
But Biles returned to the international stage last summer at the World Championships in Antwerp, Belgium, where she became the most decorated gymnast in world history with her 37th career medal at an international competition. She earned an automatic qualification for Paris and is now in position to try to reach some of the last remaining historical milestones in what will likely be her final Olympics.
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