Simone Biles Seals Triumphant Olympic Comeback With A Floor Routine Silver

Simone Biles won silver in the gymnastics floor routine final at the Paris Olympics on Monday, wrapping an extraordinary return to the Games with her fourth medal.

The iconic athlete scored 14.133 after two deductions for landing out of bounds.

Brazil’s Rebeca Andrade, who was up before her, scored 14.166, securing the gold.

“I think Rebeca got this one,” Biles said moments before her own score was announced.

Biles’ fellow U.S. competitor Jordan Chiles, who has a gold and silver medal to her name from the team competitions in Paris and Tokyo, came in third to win bronze.

She had initially placed fifth, with Romania’s Ana Bărbosu in line for the bronze, but a last-minute upgrade of Chiles’ score from 13.666 to 13.766 put her on the podium.

An elated Biles and Chiles were seen embracing after the surprise announcement.

Biles said before the Games that Andrade “scares” her the most out of her competition. The two have been seen applauding and hugging one another throughout the competitions despite their rivalry.

Biles had fallen back while landing her signature triple double tumbling pass during the warmup. Afterwards, her team re-taped her calf, which she had tweaked during the qualifiers on July 28.

In 2016, Biles soared to global superstardom when she competed in the Rio Olympics team event and four individual competitions, winning gold in all but the balance beam, where she took bronze.

“I’m not the next Usain Bolt or Michael Phelps. I’m the first Simone Biles,” she told reporters at the time.

Due to concerns about her mental health, which manifested in a disorienting phenomenon known in the gymnastics world as the “twisties,” Biles dropped out of the Tokyo Olympics during the team event. She went on to pull out of all