'Even if you’re not a gymnastics fan but appreciate incredible achievements in sports, know that you are witnessing greatness,' nrarmour writes on Simone Biles for usatodaysports.
USA TODAYSTUTTGART, Germany -- Simone Biles topped the all-around standings by more than two points, got two new skills named after her and made the finals in all four events.“Overall, I don’t know. I still feel like I could do better,” Biles said Saturday night when asked to assess her first day of competition at the world gymnastics championships. “But my goal going into tonight was not to do great, it was just to do well. I feel like I accomplished that.
Even on uneven bars, which made her want to “vomit … it was so bad,” Biles had the seventh-highest score. Biles, though, doesn’t throw skills just to say she did them. If she’s going to compete at something, it’s going to be perfect. Or pretty darn close.To pull it off, Biles has to twist while flipping, and it takes an incredible amount of power and precision to do it. Oftentimes she takes several seconds to marshal the energy she’s going to need before doing the trick.
Every skill in gymnastics is assigned a letter, which corresponds to a numerical value. An “A” skill is worth a tenth of a point, and every letter in the alphabet that follows is an additional tenth. So a “D” skill is four-tenths of a point while the rare “J” skill is worth a full point.
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