It would certainly appear like there’s not much left to prove for Simone Biles. Her presumptive status as the greatest gymnast ever was conferred years before she’d racked up a record-shattering 37 medals between the Olympics and world championships. Since winning her first national title in 2013, she has won every all-around competition in every meet she has entered, often by stupefying margins. And yet here she is, continuing to toy with the outer limits of human potential while doing the hardest gymnastics of her life, the 27-year-old face of the US Olympic movement on the brink of still more history.
Are you ready for it?
