It is difficult to find a professional athlete that had a better 2024 than the Olympic Olympic Gymnasts.
The 28-year-old woman rebounded by a forgettable performance at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, in which she took money in the team event and bronze in the balance of balance before withdrawing from the safe and soil competitions after having experienced a case of “The Twisties”, a psychological phenomenon where gymnasts have difficulties with timing and conscience while performing movements that involve triplets, to add four media more trothies.
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Biles won gold in the team, versatile competitions and vault jumps, and Silver in the Floor exercised not only to bring its total of self -proclaimed Olympic medal and its number of gold medals to seven, both good for the second largest number among the female gymnasts behind the Larisa Latynine of Russia, which is 18 and nine, respectively.
Simone Biles of the United States reacts after competing on the bundle in female gymnastics in the Olympic summer games in Paris 2024 in Bercy Arena.Kyle Terada-Imagn Images
Due to its dominant race at the Paris Olympic Games in 2024, Biles was honored on Monday as the winner of La Sports-World Sportswoman of the year 2025, as announced by Team USA and Laureus Sports.
“There is only one @simone_biles. 🐐 The 11x Olympic medalist is # Laureus25 World Sportwoman of the year!” The @Teamusa X account displayed.
“Whenever I was younger and I started gymnastics, I always wanted to change sport and simply progress it and inspire the young generations, so I have the impression that my work did exactly that with the time I spent on an Olympic and global scene”, ” Biles said During his acceptance speech.
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This is the fourth time that Biles has won the prize (2017, 2019 and 2020), the attacker with Serena Williams for the most victories in the history of the prize. Biles is also the first athlete to win the award during the consecutive years.
“By coming here and winning a Laureus prize, I have the impression that it is the most prestigious athletic realization that you can win,” added Biles at a press conference after the award ceremony. “So it's really exciting that it puts gymnastics on the map during a non -Olympic year, so I hope we can continue to do it.”
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