Simone Biles: Dominating Olympics Gymnastics History
Category
🥇
SportsTranscript
00:00You take a look at some of the greats of all time, but sometimes, Joe, we always get caught
00:07up in the moment, right?
00:08Ooh, this is the best basketball player I've ever seen.
00:10That was the greatest player I've ever watched.
00:11And you don't let it settle in.
00:12But sometimes, historical things really ramp up in the Olympics, because we don't see this
00:17every other week.
00:18You won four out of five golf tournaments over the past month and a half here.
00:21The Olympics are every four years.
00:22Simone Biles coming out and absolutely dominated the all-around for another gold medal.
00:27The one thing that you can appreciate is sometimes you watch athletes go, ooh, that's
00:31really good.
00:32Boy, she's pretty impressive.
00:33He's pretty impressive.
00:34But when you watch the rest of the women's gymnastic competition, then you watch Simone
00:39Biles, it's a different level.
00:41She is phenomenal out there, the most athletic by far, and on the biggest stage when you
00:45must perform in that one-minute moment, she dominated in her floor routine.
00:50It's fun to watch athletes excel at the highest level here, Joe.
00:55And when you think about where we saw her four years ago or three years ago in Japan
01:00with the Olympics and how she was a shell of what we are seeing here.
01:07So to overcome the mental aspect of it as well, where she had the weight of the world
01:14on her shoulders, thinking the entire country hated her because she just couldn't get it
01:19done three years ago.
01:20And then to come back on this older and to be able to fight through that and get it done,
01:26just absolutely unbelievable.
01:28The greatest single women's gymnastics athlete in the history of the Olympic Games.
01:34That is a hell of a title, and it says an awful lot about who she is.
01:39And to be that dominant also with a calf injury, that's where you get your explosion at.
01:43You watch these ladies out there on how many routines they do.
01:46It's amazing that she was phenomenal all the way through, got the gold medal, expected
01:49and got it done.
01:50One of the greatest to ever do it here.