Agree! :)

She's the best! I absolutely love her sweet bubbly personality. She works harder than anyone out there as well. Go watch the video of the bee in her bouquet, it's funny and sweet.

I'm not bagging but I met her there

Absolutely :)

I've only just started watching Simone Biles, she seems all around really great, personality and skill. I wonder with her uneven bars wether she would be capable of doing Shawn Johnson's Dismount double twisting double layout I think. The commentators were saying she seems capable of more so she would be even more amazing if she could do that.

Exactly it's kinda unfair it's like Simone this Simone that Simone all over its kinda getting annoying we get it she's amazing but atleast try to not pick her

She good but my opinion kinda annoying

+Gabrielle Lee yea Yeah, the competitions where Biles appears are very..... boring....haha... we will see what will happen at Olympics

@@klaudia6491 she's only doing her best. There should be no problem for a person wanting to do her best on what she does

@@klaudia6491 y'all are really mad at her for winning? Like what do you mean they need to pick someone else? If no one comes close in difficulty, of course she's gonna win and that's only fair. I know other girls work hard too but hating Simone for winning is just straight up childish and calling her annoying when she's a very sweet person too? You're just Salty

***** Good thinking. Here's a gif if you want to share it. share.gifkzfaq.info.gif

Lol that's my dad I told him that he was on camera

+USA Gymnastics that's the best

romi entin ikr even though everyone says bars is her weakest event she is still outstanding and better than probably about 90% of the gymnasts there

She’s really good, but I personally like other bars routines better because it looks effortless and they make better lines imo. But yeah, she can get super high scores.

And now she’s a world medalist on bars. She’s like Uchimura on the men’s side. His weakest event was pommels but he still qualified to the world finals there twice

hahaha i was hoping someone noticed that too 😂😂😂

This comment had me in tears!!!!

YASSS

Drew Christian Rodney ikr it drives me fucking insane when people say it's not a sport they have no idea how hard gymnastics is!!!!

absolutely

YAAAAAAAASSSS

Totally agree about the stiffness, she almost looks robotic.

Same it seems almost frantic sometimes and just takes me out of the moment

Oh calm down

+Kays Life i know right I'm so excited

+Kays Life !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

its already almost2018

2024 🥲

Sarah Brickner and her body matches it, too!

Not all heros wear capes lol

I mean...anyone would be if they were on top for a while, was 4th overall in qualifications, and lost the spot over a small amount.

Kourtney O So What? Mind your own business,

Obviosly. Thats embarasing. She was portrayed as the it girl

Ally Miller

same

Me too

me too. i dont think there is any gym fan in the world who doesnt love him

@QPHashSS77 What did he say/do?

domn1c Well, when you're competing against athletes from another country, it's obviously gonna be more nerve-racking!

​@@Star_JewelExactly

IKR!!!! I was wondering that to!! Lol

+Payton Berry the bars material is softer than you think it doesnt hurt them

+LoZfan86 lol

Trust me it doesn't hurt :) Playing around with them since I was two :)

FESoren it does hurt

Radi Ivanov that’s my dad I was next to him with the yellow shirt on

@@jumbojayla6132 No.. He's my dad, I'm the gal with the yellow shirt.

@@adamolition8702 HE IS MY UNCLE!

He can't help it. That one vault of hers in the Olympic team final was just so incredible. They are are all great vaults but a stuck Amanar that is a foot and a half higher than the top male gymnast (who starts on a taller vault table to begin with) is just incredible. And Maroney always had better form and a little more height than Simone. Simone always, always crosses her feet. Ergo, Tim must have an obsession with Maroney because she truly had the most incredible (height, distance, form, landing, centered, dynamic) vault of all time. I think it's kinda funny how he always brings her up. But he's right. She is the greatest vaulter of all time.

bbhouk1 Maroney doesn't have the extension biles has so actually her form isn't better, and she arches her whole body and you can clearly see that in every video. She also isn't the greatest vaulter of all time, on the women's side maybe on the men's no.

@@arathgomez615 ....Not even on the womens side. Simone has a vault named after her, can Mahoney say that?

Tiffany Brown I think they were referring specifically to reigning Olympic champions. You're right, others have gone back for 2nd and 3rd Olympics, but none were reigning Olympic all-around champions. Gabby was the first since Nadia to do so.

Actually you are not correct. Ludmilla Torisheva was the first to do it

Because they’re jealous and have to have something to complain about to even remotely try and feel “better” about themselves. It’s just people who’ve never accomplished anything in life and need to be jerks.

You were correct! Team gold by an astronomical margin, every team member in at least one individual final, medals for every member except Gabby individually. Legend stuff.

He didn’t perform at his best when it counted most. As sad as it was, they had to pick the most reliable athletes at the time it really mattered.

And look at her now. Among the best we’ve ever known…

What always frustrates me is when people complain about lack of artistry, they always bring up ballet. This is NOT ballet class it’s gymnastics!! Artistry in gymnastics is an individual and interpretive concept. You are absolutely right, she IS artistic in her own unique and creative ways.

dcdddddd1 I'm pretty sure that you just have to turn 16 during the olympic year, so the olympics are in July and if you're 16th birthday isn't until like September, i think its okay.

Jordan Miller yeah that's the rule...kyla ross for example was 15 turning 16 at the london olympics

dcdddddd1 i agree…a perfect example of this was Nastia for the 2004 Olympics, i believe she TURNED 15 the year of the Games…she was young, but super talented and could have potentially medaled at not one, but two Games!

Jordan Miller But what if a gymnast is 15 years old and doesn't turn 16 until the following year. I just think it's ridiculous that they made that rule. Nadia Comaneci was just 14 years old at the 1976 Olympics. Tatiana Gutsu was just 15 years old at the 1992 Olympics. If a gymnast is good enough to compete at the Olympics, then she should be allowed to compete even if she's just 14 or 15 years old.

Christopher McClendon I agree with you. Like you had mentioned, she was good enough to compete even though she was just 15 years old during the 2004 Olympics.

+ symphony star she is always amazing on floor

+Gracesykesingle Totally agree! I love Simone and she always leaves me awestruck, but it does get a little annoying when they talk about Simone as though she can do no wrong, but only tend to criticise the other athletes.

+missmosshie Well, after all, they are American commentators covering American gymnasts. :) They say turnabout is fair play. :) I have "issues" with the British commentators, especially Christine Stills. She NEVER passes any opportunity to comment somewhat critically and arrogantly that American girls are not "elegant." That's her favorite word. There are times I wanted to grab my monitor and shake the bolts out of it. LOL The Russian girls are her favorites. One of them in particular can flub her beam routine six or seven times, fall off the beam, and land on her face doing her dismount, and Stills will comment how "elegant" her form, her arm movements, and her toes are---even if she would break them when she fell. And when the British girls, who are of the same body type, have the same style and strength, either flub a routine or even fall on their butts, she gently brushes those mistakes off as "little bobbles." LOL She drove me bonkers, although she has improved a bit in the last two years. Someone must have told her she was just a tad prejudiced with her barbs & criticisms. Not to mention that the woman does not have brains enough to pronounce competitors' names properly, no matter how many times she has heard them said correctly. But she probably just believes she can pronounce their fathers' names better than their fathers can.

Gracesykesingle i know right

Tacks Sherbo yeah and this event is full of American gymnasts, which means they have a lot of people they could talk about other than Simone!

Well my friend in case you dose off its the Simone Biles Show

Joyce they're referring to an olympic ALL AROUND champion returning to the Olympics again. THAT hasnt been done since nadia returned in 1980

Augustine Egea isn’t she homeschooled?

ROStyles1 right she’s lying 🙄

She’s homeschooled

Veronica Nicholson You mean Gabby Davis hahaha

No

Veronica Nicholson​ Hahaha it's a joke! One of the commentators kept calling her that during one event!

They mention her so no she was not forgotten

So

That hairline tho. ...

Black Panther #weeeeaaaaaak

+marcelle215 Donnell's hair stopped growing at 5' 4", but Donnell didn't. He grew right through it. :)

I wish people would stop worrying about what they WEAR and focus on what they’re DOING. These athletes can wear whatever they want, it’s not for others to judge.

****Simone

She was googd she erned her place.

The reason they raised it is because when it was 14 there was a massive amount of injuries and abuse among the young young girls so by raising it to 16 it helps prevent injuries and abuse more than 14 if that makes sense

Absolutely not!! 16 is young enough in a sport that can be incredibly abusive in nature- given the coaches the sport seems to attract. The girls in particular are not physically developed enough at 14 for it to be safe to consider pushing them that hard that early.

Josh White Actually, while it was close, she wouldn't have won, even staying in bounds, and even without the wobble backward with extra step that wasn't out of bounds. It would've been MUCH, MUCH closer, but the step out was 0.1 and probably 0.1 for the step back before that, and maybe 0.1 for the wobble that accompanied the first step back. Raise her score by 0.3, would've then made it 60.065, while Simone still had 60.231. It would've been a much tighter finish, but Simone still would've gotten it.

Josh White Larissa Iordache ain’t shit compared to a gymnastics queen like Simone. Also stop with your “Larissa would have won had she not stepped out” blah blah bullshit. She didn’t and that’s that. That’s like me saying if Simone would of had a better balance beam routine she would have won with a larger margin of victory, but she didn’t so stop with the “if’s.”

That's riddles

+thetigerbeat007 I don't think it's nearly as important as they like to say it is ;). Sure, big names come, but a lot of big names don't.

+thetigerbeat007 It's big for the American gymnasts because it's really the only major international event on American soil but it's not so big for the other countries. That's why most of the major gymnasts don't show up

It's no different than other FIG World Cup (which is not that important). But Americans like to emphasize it a lot because it is the only World Cup that US gymnasts can get many medals.

+devanf17 I guess we have the same issue about that. After all the events these commentators covered over the years, you would think they would take the time to learn how to pronounce competitors' names properly. I think it's RUDE for them not to give proper respect to the athletes by pronouncing their names correctly. You think the Japanese names are bad? Just listen to them during the Olympics. They butcher Russian and east European names horribly, and there is NO excuse for it because almost all of the athletes compete in many events over the years. Lazy and stupid, that's all.

Tacks Sherbo International commentators butcher American names as well! They call Simone “see-mo-nay” all the time.

The chose skinner over Ross skinner is kinda better in my opinion

Bow simone

Ikr :( really wanted for Aliya Mustafina to be in there competing :)))

Well she did just change coaches/gyms not that long ago and had a lot of medical stuff done over the winter so I'm not that surprised to not see her back yet. She's my very favorite so I want her to do whatever she has to keep herself healthy and sound.

GO AMERICA AND MIKAYLA SKINNER ALSO SIMONE BILES

The Russian women, as far as I can remember, haven't been to an American Cup in about four years. They claim that it's because it's so early in the season but I think it's because they are still upset that Jordyn Wieber won in 2009 when she wasn't technically supposed to be competing in it because she wasn't eligible.

Actually it makes a lot of sense that it would be too early in the season.

Kyla*** she was improving her difficulty and skills before she competed at a competition in Italy. Plus Skinner needed the international experience😊

Wow, you are really a gigantic PIG. Judging an athlete for their physical appearance? That’s the act of a child. Would you like someone to judge you for how you look? Would you appreciate being called “chunky?” What a soulless statement. She got better because her training brought it about- not because of her damn weight!

I guess they'd rather take MyKayla in order for her to get more experience. I think Kyla will compete in Jesolo, later in March

They're only allowed two, and they chose Skinner over Ross.

She wanted to take time to work on new skills for the upcoming season to improve routine difficulty