Photographers are always looking for action. And the action in these Games is called Simone Biles. Half an hour before her debut at the Ariake Gymnastics Arena, they appear on several buses with their cameras and tripods and for the next two hours they chase her around the pavilion in a kind of 'flashmob'. As there is no one in the stands, when the American faces the colt, they are placed in the seats in the north area. For the uneven bars, they occupy the west bottom. And for the balance beam, the east. Only when competing on the ground, in the center of the venue, do they divide to capture, from all possible angles, an error in the closing of their third diagonal. 'Chas, chas, chas, chas', the sound of the flashes is the only thing that can be heard in a pavilion that, before and after the appearance of Biles, is very calm,practically silent.

Despite her irregular classification, and in the absence of

Michael Phelps

and

Usain Bolt

, the gymnast is the star that shines the most in Tokyo and there is no one who does not want to look at her. Like photographers, television cameras monitor her individually - whoever competes behind her back - competes - and journalists crowd the mixed zone just to watch her go by, because she won't speak until a final is over.

She has many ahead of her and, in them, one goal: to confirm with medals what her movements already scream, that she is the best gymnast in history and surely the best athlete in history. If she achieves five golds, she would equal the most awarded woman in the history of the Games, the Ukrainian

Larisa Latynina

(nine golds), she would surpass

Vitaly Scherbo

(six) and only have the unattainable

Phelps

(23)

ahead

. It would do it in just two editions and with legs to reach the 2024 Paris Games, so it would be an expandable record.

"Every time everything is more difficult because I only seek to improve myself, to win myself. Sometimes when I go to compete I am afraid of that. I ask myself: 'Can I do better than I have already done? Can I improve What did I do in the last Games? ", he commented a few weeks ago in an interview on 'NBC' in which he was sincere. "Do you really think someone can beat you?" They asked her and, after a silence and a knowing smile, she renounced the clichés and told the truth. "You can never know at all, but if I do it as I should I think it will be very, very complicated," confessed who appeared in Tokyo with the usual bright blue United States jumpsuit and his also usual pink ribbon closing the bow. Despite some failures in his best devices, he qualified for the final six,even in the asymmetric one, the device that handles the worst. On Tuesday (from 12:45) the dance will begin with the team competition. Then the full contest will come on Thursday 29 and between Sunday 1 and Tuesday 3 August, the devices.

Beyond sport

His confidence is very high because he has already organized a tour to celebrate his successes called 'Gold Over America Tour' with tickets on sale for September in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Denver, Oklahoma City ... and so on until the grand finale in November at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn or the TD Garden in Boston.

It is part of her new facet as a businesswoman, another sign of her growth since the Rio Games.

There, at the age of 19, he fulfilled the canons of gymnastics, which has always given the coaches more voice than the protagonists, but he is tired of all that.

The 'Me too' movement and its complaint in January 2018 as a victim of Dr.

Larry Nassar

were the discovery of a Biles beyond the borders of his sport and, since then, with his involvement in the 'Black Lives Matter' campaign, the termination of his contract with Nike or with his campaign to get the American Gymnastics Federation change from top to bottom, it has become an icon.

Ariake Gymnastics Arena appears from the locker room and all her rivals watch her in front of the United States team, the most numerous, with the four starters and the two specialists. For some of them, like the Jamaican

Danusia Francis

, who jellies her from the other end of the pavilion when she finishes her exercises, Biles is their idol and the simple fact of competing in the same qualifying group, an honor. The rest of the gymnasts are doing their thing with more or less luck, but when the champion competes it is known, because they all observe her, although they do not always have to. An example, the Australian

Emily Whitehead

is about to face the colt, but her partner

Georgia Godwin

hardly attends because Biles is on the balance beam.

"She's the best, she's the best," Francis answered in a mixed zone about the American who accidentally invited him to participate in the 'Gold Over America Tour'.

"How can I not cheer her on when she competes?" Acknowledges the Jamaican and shows that she likes action.

And the action in these Games is called Simone Biles.

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