• Spain.The two teams qualify for Tokyo
  • The star: nobody shines like Simone Biles

Simone Biles says that for her to baptize a movement with her name is worth more than all the medals, but on Tuesday she got both. It was the last exercise of the contest and he only needed to ensure to hang the gold by teams, the first of the harvest in this World Cup. But Biles is above any calculation on the ground and in the first diagonal he planted his double mortal with triple pirouette. An unprecedented exercise in women's competition and at the height of very few male gymnasts. As he landed with enormous proficiency, a smile escaped him. The Biles II was worth another gold medal.

The United States was proclaimed world champion by teams in the complete contest for the fifth time in a row. The North Americans took almost six points ahead of Russia and more than seven to Italy , surprising bronze (first metal since 1950).

A little more history for Simone Biles, who is already the gymnast with the most World Cup medals in the women's category (21), ahead of Svetlana Khorkina (20). In the global, he ties with the Japanese Kohei Uchimura and narrows the fence on his great goal in Stuttgart, the 23 metals of Vitaly Scherbo . In golds (15) it is already above the Russian (11).

Only the global throne remains, a record that Biles could already have in his hand of not having taken a sabbatical year after the great exhibition at the Rio Games. Since he debuted in international competition, he has played metal in all the Olympic or World finals he has played minus one in the year of its premiere, 2013.

Biles closed the team competition with the best score on the ground (15333), jump (15,400) and bar (14,433) , perhaps marking territory for the remainder of the week. So the doubt with Biles is not if he will get it but when. He has two medals left to hunt down Scherbo and the next one could arrive this Thursday in the complete individual contest: in all the competitions he has played he has taken this gold.

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