How Did Simone Biiless Contribute To Gymnastics

Simone Biles is a world class, gold medalist, gymnast. She was the one to beat at the 2016 Rio Olympics. Growing up, Biles was always playing catch-up in the sport. She started in a really unexpected way. There were many things in Simone Biles’ life that contributed to her success in gymnastics; from started gymnastics, leveling up and winning competitions, to going to the 2016 Olympics and winning gold.
The first point to Simone’s journey of success was when she first started gymnastics. Simone was a little girl when her life got switched around. Her mother was a drug addict and couldn’t properly take care of Simone and her three other siblings, Tevin, Ashley, and Adria. They, then, went into the foster care. Their foster family was very
Simone grew up with gymnastics ever since she went there on her field trip. She was in the gym often; before and after school, on weekends, all the time. All she thought about was moving up to more difficult dismounts and other big skills. Although, there was always one thing she never wanted to get better at. Simone was always the smallest, since of her height she always feared the bars. She felt like she never could make it to the top bar from the bottom one. Not only was she too small, she was also a power gymnast, which means she has lots of power doing things. And to do the bars, you have to let the bars control you, and you can’t go with a lot of power. Her coach, Coach Susan, always told her that she needs to learn the skill and get over her fear. Simone would always tell her coach that she didn’t need every skill. Coach Susan told her if she wanted to be the best and win everything, you must be good at every skill. Soon after, Simone learned to do the bars with
“She has competed in three, winning a total of 14 medals, 10 of which are gold- the most ever in women's gymnastics history” (Warshaw). People had started to get her to think about going to the Olympics. She really doesn’t like to think ahead, and the thought of Olympics feared her. Simone just kept getting more and more successful. She went to every hard world competition there was. She traveled to new places all the time, while she kept getting the gold. She even started to get hate from the press. Simone was the 2013 Artistic Gymnastics World Champion. Many people said since she is a power gymnast, she can’t be artistic and graceful. She wanted to prove them wrong, in which, she did. When Simone saw that she made the 2016 Rio Olympic team, she couldn’t believe it for one minute. Before, her Olympic dream was to simply just make the team and go to Rio with all the amazing experiences like meeting other American Athletes and having all the excitement in the Olympic Village. It was when she had her name called as one of the members of the 2016 Women's Gymnastics Olympic Team that she wanted to do everything she could to win herself and her team the