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08-02-2024, 02:41 PM | Topic Starter |
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Where does Simone Biles rank?
Where does Simone Biles rank among the best American athletes ever? She’s literally reset the bar for the entire sport. Mahomes level except she’s done it for over a decade and against the world. Who is better? She has multiple routines named after her. Largest margin of victory. She jumps like 12 feet over routine. The oldest to win the all around in 72 years. I don’t know how to do polls, but even if I did what choices would he in the poll? I have two daughters in gymnastics and they both want to be her (obviously not relevant to my question but it’s nice as a dad to see them strive to beat her).
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Ill ask my grandmother
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08-02-2024, 02:45 PM | #3 |
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I definitely put Phelps ahead of her. 23 gold medals is ridiculous.
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08-02-2024, 03:01 PM | #5 |
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He medaled in 28 of 30 events. He won gold in 76% of the events he raced. Thats just bananas. He had more opportunities because he earned them. Not going to take away from Biles but she could compete in more events by competing/qualifying for more individual apparatus competitions. |
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Sure it’s different but that doesn’t diminish one over the other. And as I understand it, each gymnast technically competes to qualify in each apparatus final and the all around final. Thats how she did so well in 2016 with five medals. So there have been more chances for her in the past but she just didn’t qualify/compete. And regardless of reason outside injury, in her last Olympics she had to drop out of some events. Though this year she has three more individual events so she’ll probably add more. |
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After this Olympics, Biles will have had the opportunity to get 18 medals in 3 different Olympics. Phelps, whom I legit love, has competed in 31 Olympic events across 6 different Olympics. 2000 - 1 event 2004 - 8 events 2008 - 8 events 2012 - 6 events 2016 - 6 events Last edited by dlphg9; 08-02-2024 at 03:50 PM.. |
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Behind Tom Brady obviously.
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