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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 an impressive 5.802 points ahead of second-placed Italy.
GroupM, one of the world’s largest ad-buying agencies, is now working with NBCUniversal to create new advertising packages that will allow some of GroupM’s brand clients to specifically appear during women’s Paris Olympic events.
He was convicted four years ago for sexually abusing female gymnasts, including Olympic medalists.
The 24-year-old gymnast traveled to the Tokyo Games this year with the intent of rewriting the recordbooks but instead brought about a groundbreaking, global conversation around athletes' mental well-being.
"To be clear, I blame Larry Nassar and I also blame an entire system that enabled and perpetrated his abuse," she said before the US Senate Judiciary Committee alongside fellow gymnasts McKayla Maroney, Aly Raisman and Maggie Nichols.
USA Gymnastics said that Biles would make a decision later this week on the one remaining event she is qualified for, the beam.
The 24-year-old, however, might yet make another appearance at the Tokyo Games having not ruled herself out for floor exercise on Monday and beam on Tuesday.
Biles' quest to become the greatest female Olympian took a bizarre twist, when she dropped out of the women's team event after one vault.
The American squeezed into the uneven bars final thanks to an Olympic rule that limits only two finalists per nation, with two higher-placed Russians missing out.
Two falls on an 'off day' did not prevent Biles from becoming the first woman to win four all-around titles at the Gymnastics World Championships in Doha.
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