The Brazilian edged the American for gold in the floor routine, but there was nothing but love to go around as gymnastics came to a close in Paris.
PARIS — These were Simone Biles’s Olympics, but all week, the person she wanted to talk about was Brazil’s Rebeca Andrade.
Biles, 27, is the consensus world’s best gymnast, but Andrade, 25, is within a mistake behind. And on Monday, as Biles committed two errors on her floor routine, going out of bounds twice, Andrade was flawless. Biles’s silver extended her U.S. gymnastics record medal haul to 11. Andrade’s gold gave her six Olympic medals, the most ever by a Brazilian. The crowd went nuts every time she succeeded all week. So did her fellow gymnasts.
First off, again, yes, it was an all-Black podium. Second off, why don’t we just give her her flowers?
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