Rio 2016: Simone Biles gold, Aly Raisman silver in floor exercise

Team USA’s Simone Biles and Aly Raisman won gold and silver medals, respectively, in Women’s Gymnastics Floor Exercise at Rio 2016

Simone Biles is the greatest women’s gymnast that the world has ever seen. Throughout the 2016 Rio Olympics, we’ve heard that said time and again, but it’s only the truth. Coming into Tuesday, she would be competing in her final event of Rio 2016 in the Women’s Gymnastics Floor Exercise. Alongside her would be 2012’s gold medalist and Team USA captain, Aly Raisman.

Biles, who already had three golds and a bronze to her credit in Rio, hit the floor before Raisman. The best gymnast in the world was clearly amped up for her final routine on the floor, causing some steps on a couple of her landings coming out of passes. However, Biles’ biggest strength has always been the difficulty of her routine in the air. And she executed that part of her routine predictably flawlessly. When the scores came in, it was a 15.966 for Biles to put her in first.

Raisman was up not long after, though, and she was poised as ever in trying to usurp her teammate and defend her gold medal. Everyone of her landings out of passes was supremely crisp and she looked like the veteran of the sport that she is. However, even she couldn’t match up to the difficulty of Biles’ routine, thus only landing her a score of 15.500.

With only one more routine left to be done, though, no one was touching the pair of Americans. Biles and Raisman went gold, silver in the floor exercise, just as they did in the all-around competition as well.

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For Biles, she completed an absurdly impressive run at Rio 2016. There’s just no way you can quantify winning five medals in one Olympic Games, much less with four of them being gold. She’s the first woman to ever do that, only adding to an already lasting legacy—the same of which can be said for Raisman, who concludes a phenomenal career.