Celebrities including Natalie Portman, Serena Williams and Nicole Kidman, and excited USA fans turned out to watch Simone Biles clinch her fifth Olympic gold medal as she made a triumphant return to the women's gymnastics team final at the Paris Games on Tuesday (July 30).
With this gold medal Biles reinforced her status as one of the world's greatest athletes just three years after withdrawing from the same event at the Tokyo Games.
Biles, the most decorated gymnast of all-time, earned the United States their 11th Olympic medal in the women's team event with a solid performance on all four apparatus after starting off on the vault, from which she soared high into the air while executing the Cheng to earn 14.900 points.
With the crowd rallying behind Biles and her teammates in the absence of the French team that failed to qualify for the final, the United States finished with a total of 171.296, an impressive 5.802 points ahead of second-placed Italy.
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