สมัครUFABET: สมัครUFABET Simone Biles wins fourth all-around world title by record margin despite falls

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สมัครUFABET Simone Biles wins fourth all-around world title by record margin despite falls

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สมัครUFABET Simone Biles overcame a series of uncharacteristic mistakes to become the first woman to win four all-around world championships on Thursday in Doha.

The 21-year-old American, despite falls on the balance beam and vault, finished with a score of 57.491, seeing off Japan’s Mai Murakami, who finished 1.693 points behind for the silver. Morgan Hurd, last year’s world champion in Biles’ absence, finished 0.066 behind Murakami for bronze.

The margin of victory, even accounting for Biles’ first falls in more than 60 career routines in the Olympics or world championships, marked the largest of her four all-around world titles.

Biles has finished first in every meet she’s entered since the 2013 US championships, though this one was far tighter than usual.

In the end, however, it was Biles against herself.

Not content to simply rely on her remarkable talent, Biles is intent on pushing the sport forward. It’s an approach that leads her to put together the most difficult routines and gives her basically a head start in every meet because her start values are so high.

For once, Biles needed the cushion to pull through.

Nearly a year to the day since she returned to the gym following a well-deserved sabbatical after her five-medal haul at the 2016 Olympics, Biles came into the all-around final at the height of her considerable powers. She put on a spectacular display during qualifying, her total of 60.965, 4.5 points clear of Hurd, made all the more startling considering she revealed she’s battling a kidney stone she’s jokingly called “the Doha Pearl”.

It was more of the same during team finals,สมัครUFABET when Biles served as the anchor on all four events as the Americans cruised to their fourth consecutive world championship with ease.

Yet the casual dominance Biles has won with for a half decade evaporated in the desert.

Most meets with Biles typically start the same. She drills the vault where she is the reigning Olympic champion and then spends the next three rotations simply padding her lead to margins that look like typos.

Not this time. Attempting ‘the Biles’ – a roundoff, half-twist onto the table, front double full off typically done by men – her left arm barely touched the table, causing her to under-rotate. She landed and promptly sat down, forcing her to play catch-up.

Known for getting angry after mistakes, she responded by drilling her significantly improved uneven bars set, nailing her double-twisting double-somersault dismount to move slightly in front of Hurd halfway through.

Then things got weird. Biles hopped off the beam early in her routine then grabbed the four-inch piece of wood later when she had trouble landing a front flip, a sequence she struggled with during qualifying.

The miscues gave the rest of the field a small opening. One no one in the rest of the top six could get through. Hurd wobbled twice during her set, leaving Biles a slim margin of .092 over Belgium’s Nina Derwael heading to Biles’ signature event.

Murakami’s excellent floor routine put pressure on Biles, but only a little. Needing a 13.308 to win, her 15.000 was the best on the floor by a full point even though her right foot went out of bounds during the end of her intricate opening tumbling run.

Biles’ score of 15.000 on the floor exercise was Thursday’s best by a full point.

Not that it mattered. In the end the meet finished the way they have always finished for the last five years when Biles is involved: with her atop the podium standing above a sport that is desperately trying to keep up.

Biles, now on two golds at this year’s worlds after leading the United States to the team title on Tuesday, will have four more opportunities for silverware in the apparatus finals and can become the first woman to win six medals at a world championships since Yelena Shushunova of the Soviet Union in 1987.

Great Britain’s Ellie Downie upgraded สมัครUFABET her qualifying scores on all four pieces of apparatus to total 54.233 and finish in 11th place on her return to