Stuttgart (Germany) (AFP)

This time, Simone Biles is alone in the world: the irresistible American gymnast grabbed the world medal record alone by taking her 24th and 25th, both in gold, Sunday in Stuttgart (Germany). Here it is in orbit for the Olympics 2020.

The day before, Biles had equaled, at 22, the record set by the legendary Belarusian Vitaly Scherbo (23) in the 1990s by winning the jump. Not even 24 hours later, it has already passed, and even escaped: in less than two hours, the small Texan bomb flew over the final of the beam and soil Sunday.

And it's rare enough to be stressed: it is demonstratively, bright smile and fist thrown in the air, before falling into the arms of his French coach Laurent Landi, she welcomed his first coronation of the afternoon, the one that made her unique.

In detail, the four-time Olympic champion (all-around, floor, jump and team) is now leading a collection of 19 world gold medals, three silver and three bronze.

On the German apparatus, Biles has constantly enriched the record of world gold medals she has held since 2018. Never before a gymnast, had amassed more than twelve.

- His "Worlds best" -

She herself had never gleaned so much gold - five titles in this case, out of six possible - in a single world event. Until then, it had peaked at four, three times (2014, 2015 and 2018).

"These are really the best Worlds I have ever done," says Biles, who "can not move so much (she is) tired." And who now expects her mother to have a party in her honor on her return to Texas, as she "is used to, whether I like it or not," she jokes.

Before the jump, the beam and the floor, Biles dominated the all-around for the fifth time - the never-seen one gymnast (Uchimura has six world titles on men's side) - Thursday, and the team one with her American teammates on Tuesday.

"Her regularity has been exceptional," Landi told AFP, "and she has proved that even with the very, very big difficulty, she can have very good performance scores."

Only the uneven bars, the only apparatus of which she was never crowned world champion, resisted her once again: she ranked "only" fifth of the final Saturday.

This golden raid puts it ideally in orbit at nine months of the Olympics 2020 (July 24-August 9), where it may be that she bows out at 23 years.

- "If she does that another ten months ..."

"She showed, and she proved to herself, that she is regular not only in training, but when it counts, if she does that for another ten months, she will experience a lot, a lot of success." , predicts Landi, yet little inclined to give in to the runaway.

Biles, for her part, particularly appreciated her gold medal won on the beam, where she had not experienced such success at the international level since 2015 (bronze at the 2016 Olympic Games and the World Championships-2018) and on which she had to rebuild your confidence. She won with an excellent score of 15.066, in front of two Chinese women, Liu Tingting (14.433) and Li Shijia (14.300).

"It means a lot for me (of) to succeed as well in my exercise, which is probably the best time of the week," she says.

Melanie De Jesus Dos Santos of France, who dreamed of a first world podium at 19, was fifth on beam (13.966) and on floor (13.833) a little later.

On the ground precisely, where she was the last of the eight finalists to start, Biles has pushed his closest competitor, his compatriot Sunisa Lee, to one point (15,133 against 14,133).

And what more majestic conclusion could she offer than a fourth and final representation of "Biles II", her new hallucinatory acrobatics that illuminates her first diagonal, precisely a double salto with a triple stunning spin?

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