Simone Biles, what men can only dream of

Simone Biles is the perfect woman, the person everyone wanted to be.

Athlete and citizen.

A 1.45 meter high revolution of muscles sculpted in stone, so hard, so perfect.

Cheerful, combative, brave, committed, speed, glamor, charm, power and unique kinesthetic capacity: a sense that allows you to know, blindly, in the air, where the floor is, where the ceiling is, that even the cats, yes they could, they would envy.

But men envy her.

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“Imagine a woman who dropped below 10s in the 100 meters, a mark only available to the best sprinters in the world. The world would stop, ”says Pablo Carriles, formerly a coach and international judge with experience in several Olympic Games, passionate about gymnastics. "Well, that woman, in the gym, is Simone Biles."

Few hair-on-breasted gymnasts are even capable of trying to do what she does with fainting ease. Glamor model cover in Glamor magazine, where she sings to life. On Instagram, she posts photos of pizzas, food that gives nutritionists chills, of her boyfriends, and poses in a swimsuit and with tights with some shiny goats in the seam. Goat (goat) is the word used in English to designate the greatest, 'the greatest of all time', and a goat prancing with a red gymnastics outfit and a gold medal around his neck is the emoticon that He has dedicated Twitter to her, to the greatest.

Challenge Nike and defeat the sports weapons giant; defies the American gymnastics federation, which, always guilty of cowardice, withdraws from the fight apologizing. She left Nike to sign for Athleta, the Gap emporium women's physical activity clothing brand, following the path of pioneer Allyson Felix, the California athlete who denounced the Oregon magic shoe brand for failing to pay her for the months in Those who did not compete to be a mother, and went to Athleta, who will finance the tour of the gymnastics show that Biles will organize through the United States after the Games, a tour that previously represented an important source of income for a federation without credit. The two most admired black women in American sports, the representatives of the new power of women, without fear.

In 2016, when she was 19 years old, Biles was the queen of Rio, with four gold medals and one bronze.

Teams, full contest, jump and ground.

He just missed the balance beam, third.

Upon returning to her home in Texas, where she is trained by the French marriage of Laurent Landi and Cecile Canqueteau, the Nassar scandal broke out, the Olympic gymnastics team doctor sentenced to more than 200 years in prison for abusing dozens of minor gymnasts for years .

Biles was one of them.

The lukewarm reaction of the federation, which protected Nassar while suspecting what he was doing, provoked more than anything the rebellious reaction from Biles.

Five years later, the gymnast is so good, so strong, that it could be said that she is stronger than ever, more in control of the world. She is 24 years old, an age at which the gymnasts of the time, fragile dolls, abused by coaches who made pain a necessary and obligatory good, and, despite everything, smiling, girls always, they had already retired for years: Nadia Comaneci was the goddess of Montreal 1976, at age 14; At 18, at the 80 Moscow Games, she was already a veteran. If she wins the full contest again in Tokyo, at least she will equal the Czech Vera Caslavska, Olympic champion in Tokyo 64 and Mexico 68, the only one who in history has repeated a title and, in her own way, a Biles. Caslavska won his first Olympic title at age 22,and the second came when his Czechoslovakia was experiencing the repression of the Prague Spring and the Soviet invasion in August 68. Caslavska, one of the signatories of the Charter of 2,000 that denounced Soviet interference, had to hide in the forest. For three weeks he trained in tree branches and doing ground exercises in the grasslands. Later, they allowed her to go to Mexico, where she was the queen. She won and was married in white at the Czech embassy in Mexico City, the great Olympic wedding, with the 1,500m athlete Josef Odiozil.they allowed her to go to Mexico, where she was the queen. She won and was married in white at the Czech embassy in Mexico City, the great Olympic wedding, with the 1,500m athlete Josef Odiozil.they allowed her to go to Mexico, where she was the queen. She won and was married in white at the Czech embassy in Mexico City, the great Olympic wedding, with the 1,500m athlete Josef Odiozil.

Biles does not speak of marriage, but of power. To the women's gymnastics of power and strength that was developed since the 90s, Biles has added some acrobatics that only she is capable of executing. Thus the Yurchenko with double jump backwards in a tent (bent at the waist at a right angle, the legs straight held by the hands on the thighs) after rising in the air propelled by his arms up to 2.62m, it seems that looking for the roof, with which the colt jumped in the recent United States championships and which he wants to premiere internationally in Tokyo. The judges intentionally gave it a low value, but not because of its low difficulty, on the contrary. “If you give it a lot of value, Biles gets out. No one can do it, and it is so risky and dangerous that many gymnasts would try to do it,because even if they fell they would have a high score, it would compensate them. And it would be a danger, ”explains Carriles. “The difference is so great with the others… It is almost humiliating. She is alone, in another world ”.

The considerations collide with the gymnast's sense of justice, with the awareness of her power.

"I'll keep doing it even if I don't score very much," he says.

"Why?

Because I can".

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