For her first international competition since the Olympics in Rio in 2016, Simone Biles won the world gold in the team competition with untouchable Americans on Tuesday in Doha, earning the eleventh world title of his career at 21 years.
The American team, consisting of Simone Biles, Grace McCallum, Morgan Hurd, Riley McCusker and Kara Eaker, totaled 171.629 points, beating the Russians (162.863 points) and the Chinese (162.396 points) by almost nine points. These three teams are already qualified for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.
For their first global team final since the Beijing Olympics in 2008, France's Louise Vanhille, Marine Boyer, Melanie de Jesus dos Santos, Lorette Charpy and Juliette Bossu took 5th place (161,294 points), confirming their bronze medal at the European Championships this summer in Glasgow.
Chance of the calendar, the Americans were able to celebrate, with this gold medal, the birthday of McCallum, which blew Tuesday its 16 candles.
Favorite of the general competition
Qualified for the all-around final and four individual finals per apparatus, Biles was once again impressive on Tuesday to claim her third team title after 2014 and 2015. She achieved the best passing on the ground (14.766 points) , on vault (15,500) and even on uneven bars (14,866), yet his Achilles heel so far.
She did not even need to take out her new and proposed jump in qualifying (15,966 points), which now bears her name, being content with an element specific to this apparatus, with a nice margin in the execution.
Only snag on his Qatari afternoon, his passage on the beam. As in Rio 2016, an imbalance cost him a few tenths of a point, nothing detrimental to the Americans for the team event, but it will avoid in the final individual Saturday.
She will continue her quest for history Thursday, where she is the grand favorite of the all-around. She would become, if she wins, the first woman quadruple world champion of this apparatus in the history of gymnastics.