Olympics-Gymnastics-How gold can she go? Biles shines in training amid virus worries

[ASFN Admin]

Defending Olympic all-around champion Simone Biles shone in training on Thursday in a series of sharp routines that included a vault so difficult that no other woman has ever attempted it in competition. Biles, 24, has not lost a competition since 2013 and is aiming to become the first woman to win back-to-back Olympic all-around golds in over 50 years as well as improve on her Rio haul of five medals, four of them gold. "I didn't think she was going to do the double pike today," Annie Diluzo told reporters.

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