Four Gold Medals and A Kiss From A Crush

17 Aug, 2016

Simone Biles, 19, scored 15.966 to take the title and add to her all-around, vault and team gold medals. Biles’ US team-mate Alexandra Raisman won silver with 15.500.

Biles’ gold capped a stunning Olympic debut for the teenager, who was too young to qualify for London 2012.

She becomes only the fifth woman to win four gold medals at a single Games, after Agnes Keleti and Larisa Latynina for Hungary and the Soviet Union respectively in 1956, Vera Caslavska for Czechoslovakia in 1968 and Romania’s Ekaterina Szabo in 1984.

“It’s very crazy. To think what I’ve done,” said Biles. “It’s been an amazing experience and I don’t think I could be more proud of myself.

“Your first Olympics you walk away with five medals, that’s not tough at all. Especially four being gold, that’s just unheard of. I’m very proud.”

Since starting her senior career in 2013, the 19-year-old is undefeated in all-around competitions.

Biles, from Texas, became the first black gymnast to win the all-around title at the World Championships in 2013 and, after retaining her crown in 2014, she won an unprecedented third successive all-around gold in Glasgow in 2015.

She has 10 world golds to her name, more than any other woman in history – and 14 medals in total.

In a surprise orchestrated on the TODAY show the star of the U.S. gymnastics team nearly needed a defibrillator when she met her crush Zac Efron, the actor whose life-sized cardboard cutout sits in her bedroom.

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