How to win on your own terms: Simone Biles claims her eighth Olympic gold on her Paris 2024 ‘redemption tour’

Suni Lee, Simone Biles and Hezly Rivera, three of the five members of Team USA, after winning the team gold medal.& AP Photo/Charlie Riedel by Vaughan Cruickshank, University of Tasmania; Brendon Hyndman, Charles Sturt University, and Carla Valerio, Southern Cross University Simone Biles is the most decorated gymnast, male or female, in history. She won her first world championship all-around gold medal in 2013 and has not lost an all-around competition since. She arrived in Paris with 37 medals from World Championships and Olympics, including 27 golds. She has since added to this total, winning team gold – her eighth Olympic medal – and she looks set to increase her tally when she competes in the finals for all-around, beam, floor and vault. Biles returns to the Olympics after a difficult experience at Tokyo 2020. The athlete we have seen perform so far at Paris is more relaxed, more mature and still giving us the performances of the best gymnast in the world. Team USA’s Simone Biles, Jordan Chiles, Sunisa Lee, Hezly Rivera and Jade Carey win Gold in the Artistic Gymnastics Women's Team Final on Day Four of the Olympic Games Paris 2024