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DOHA, Qatar – Simone Biles resumed training last November wondering if she could return to the form that makes her an Olympic champion.
She must not wonder anymore. No one else either.
Biles won the outstanding World Gymnastics Championships in 2018 by winning ground gold and bronze on beam in the finals of Saturday's event, giving him six medals for the competition and 20 in total at the world championships. a female gymnast.
"I think there is something to be proud of, but I am very proud to be here, competing in all finals, winning medals in all events and surviving," said Biles.
This was not a guarantee when the meeting began. Biles spent the night before qualifying at the hospital to treat the pain of a kidney stone. The stone was too big to pass and she could not take pain medication because of the anti-doping regulations, which forced her to simply take care of it.
Biles did more than solve the problem. She dominated.
Biles, 21, will return to Houston with the gold medals in the team finals, all-around final, floor and vault, as well as silver at the uneven bars and the gold medal. bronze on the beam. She became the first woman to win a medal in all four events since Yelena Shushunova for the Soviet Union in 1987.
Biles think that's only the beginning. She will visit doctors to treat the kidney stone, leave for a short vacation and then move to 2019.
"I hope that I will feel more confident next year to participate in all the events," she said. "We'll see about the upgrades. I am not sure. We will see."
Biles finished his 10 busy days doing ground exercises, including challenging descents, as difficult as anything men do today. Although she was out of the field on her third pass, her score of 14.933 was better than that of teammate Morgan Hurd, who won her third medal of the competition by finishing with money. Japan's Mai Murakami took third place.
Biles was not as sharp on the beam, an event with which she struggled recently. She faltered during qualifying and fell in the all-around final. Although she managed to stay during the finals, she found herself repeatedly unbalanced. His score of 13.6 earned the bronze medal behind China's Liu Tingting and Canadian Ana Ana Padurariu.
While admitting that it was not her best, Biles used Twitter between the beam and the ground exercises to chastise those who criticized her for not winning the gold. It is a gesture she deemed necessary.
"I think I'm upset every time I see all the tweets after performing disappointing performances," said Biles. "It's not fair because they can not set me expectations. I have to settle for myself. "
And nobody's expectations are higher. Biles is well defended after the general contest, unsatisfied with a series of unusual mistakes. She promised to redeem herself at the final of the event and responded by reaching the podium of each event.
"I'm really happy to have finished," said Biles. "Proud of my performances here. I wish some of them were better, but I'm really proud of the result. "
Hurd did the same for Hurd, who won a team gold medal, a bronze medal in the all around and a silver medal on the ground, validating his outstanding performance at the 2017 world championships, when she became an unlikely champion.
"Oh, I wanted it so much," said Hurd. "Now I have a complete game."
Sam Mikulak, five-time US champion and two-time Olympian, won the first World Championship medal of his career by finishing third in the final of the charts behind Dutchman Epke Zonderland and Japan's Kohei Uchimura. count to the worlds at 21.
Mikulak will agree to have one for the moment.
"I told the world that Sam was not a lost gymnast," said Mikulak, 26. "He's here to play and he's here to get medals."
North Korean Ri Se-Gwang took his third world title on vault. Men's All-around champion Artur Dalaloyan won the silver medal, while Japan's Kenzo Shirai won the bronze medal. Zou Jingyuan of China won the gold medal on the parallel bars with a score of 16.433 – the highest of all the machines by a man in the competition – while Oleg Verniaiev won the Dalaloyan silver and bronze medal .
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