Nadia Comaneci says that, if we talk about mastery, artistic gymnastics has never seen a phenomenon like Simone Biles. "And I don't think we'll ever see him again. He's unique." The myth of that incontestable superiority with which the American reigns speaks: since she debuted on the international scene in 2013, she has won gold in the complete competition in each Olympic and World Games where she participated. Half a dozen already go: the 2016 Olympic gold and five world champion. Stuttgart was no exception.

In the last six years he has won everything except 2017, that parenthesis that was taken after the Rio exhibition. The Simone Biles that has resurfaced from that break is more resounding if possible. More powerful. Stronger. More daring. More Biles

Only in this World Cup has patented two more movements for the Score Code. He already has four in his name, although he has only used one in the finals: a mortal double with triple pirouette on the ground, unpublished in the female category and within the reach of very few men, with whom he has stamped his seal on the first two golds.

Landing problems

His ground exercise at the end of the full contest was the last of the last rotation, and his landing in that 'Biles II' sounded like a thunderous end point. It was not as controlled nor as precise as in the team competition, but the sufficiency with which it completed a chosen movement highlighted that iron dominance.

It is the only movement of those two new ones that he has used to date in the finals. The other, an exit of the bar of balances with a double mortal backwards with two turns, has saved it after a controversy that also speaks of that domain to which Comaneci refers: the International Federation has lowered the note to prevent others Gymnasts try and endanger their integrity.

There was no other possible outcome than Biles gold. Last year in Doha he finished on the podium of the six events, two golds in complete competition and four medals in the apparatus, including a silver in asymmetric bars, his first in an international competition. And in Stuttgart it goes the same way.

Closer to Scherbo

On Tuesday, Biles closed the team competition with the best score on the ground (15333), jump (15,400) and bar (14,433). And this Thursday, despite the unusual relaxation with which he completed the ground exercise, his territory (he left the track three times for not controlling the power), surpassed the Chinese Xijing Tang (56,899) by more than two points, silver, to the Russian Angelina Melnikova, bronze (56,399).

An incontestable gold that puts Biles one step closer to Vitaly Scherbo. She is the gymnast with the most golds in the world (16), the one that has won the most medals in the women's category (22), ahead of Svetlana Khorkina (20), and in the overall it already beats the Japanese Kohei Uchimura (21). Only 23 Scherbo metals remain ahead. And there is no doubt that he will overcome it in Stuttgart. The only question is whether it will be Saturday or we will have to wait for Sunday.

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