Simone Biles gets going
The astonishing 19-year-old US gymnast finished with the highest individual scores in the vault, the balance beam and the floor exercise to lead the US gymnastics team to a record-breaking win. Biles entered these Olympics already widely hailed as the most talented gymnast ever, writes Bryan Graham. “By the end of the individual event finals next week she could have become the first woman to win five of them in one Games.” Biles said afterwards: “It felt kind of normal ... It didn’t even feel like the Olympics because we were just so ready.” Here, we look at how the US women’s gymnastic team swept to gold.