How Many Times Can Simone Biles Fall And Still Win Gold?
Photo: Francois Nel (Getty) That Simone Biles was going to win the all-around title at the 2018 world championships was something of a foregone conclusion even before the competition in Doha started. The only question was, by how many points? But by the third rotation, she had raised an unexpected additional question: How many times could she fall in competition and still win? This was no hypothetical, because Biles had already fallen twice. It started on the vault. There, Biles went for the “Biles,” the vault she had named after her earlier this week less than 24 hours after she went to the...
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