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    Fantastic Four

    A quartet of stars made Rio a celebration
    by Alice Park and Sean Gregory/Rio de Janeiro Aug 20, 2016 5 minutes
    Michael Phelps on his way to gold in the final swim race of the Rio Olympics on Aug. 13—and the last of his career

    PRESSURE? EVERY OLYMPIAN FEELS that. Try being 19, in your first Olympics and one routine away from the biggest prize in your sport: a gold medal that only 14 women have ever won, yet one everyone in the arena expects you to take home as surely as you got out of bed that morning. Knowing the lead was hers to lose, Simone Biles stepped onto the platform at the Rio Olympic Arena on Aug. 11 for the floor exercise, the final event in the women’s gymnastics individual all-around and the only one that stood between her and gold.

    “I told her to do it for herself and do it from joy,” says Aimee Boorman, who has coached Biles since she was 8. “I didn’t even want her to think about what she had to do. I just wanted it to flow.” And it did. Biles, the first woman to win three consecutive

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