eternallybeautifullyblack:#black excellence #black achievementSimone Biles Wins Most World Gold Meda
eternallybeautifullyblack:#black excellence #black achievementSimone Biles Wins Most World Gold Medals By U.S. WomanBY AMY ROSEWATERSimone Biles was not even born when Shannon Miller was winning all of her world and Olympic medals.But Biles, born in 1997, shortly after Miller collected her gold medals as part of the “Magnificent Seven” at the Atlanta 1996 Olympic Games and about two years after Miller won the last of her nine world medals, needed no history lesson to understand what it means to be passing her in the record books.By winning two gold medals on the final day of the 2014 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Nanning, China, Biles now has six career gold medals from worlds, giving her the most of any U.S. woman — one more than Miller.“I just heard that,” Biles told reporters in China, “and it actually blows my mind.”[Continue reading article at Team USA.] -- source link