Gymnastics: Good As Gold
Jul 15, 2021
1 minute
—Mandi Bierly
is the greatest gymnast of all time, and not just because she is expected to leave Tokyo with the same number of medals she earned in Rio she’ll do it: “She could have done the exact same [routines] and still would’ve been able to win. But she’s truly trying to be better than herself every year,” says Liukin. Since Rio, Biles, 24, has had three more gravitydefying new skills named after her; if she lands her take on a Yurchenko double pike vault at the Games, her career tally will be five.
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