ANTWERP, BELGIUM — Friday night’s all-around final at the world gymnastics championships at Antwerp’s Sportpaleis ended with a one-woman show: Simone Biles on floor.
Her routine, fittingly set to Israeli pop star Noa Kirel’s Eurovision song “Unicorn,” is arguably the best 90 seconds in women’s gymnastics, more art exhibit than sporting effort. Each time the 26-year-old performs the routine, it gets better, her tumbling passes higher and more powerful yet also more controlled. On Wednesday, it clinched Team USA’s seventh straight world championship title. On Friday, despite a stumble at the beginning of her leap sequence, it sealed Biles’ sixth world all-around gold.
The floor routine that gave Simone Biles a record-tying sixth world all-around title. 👑
She now holds the record for the most combined world and Olympic medals (34). pic.twitter.com/t7XqQUo2Us
— NBC Olympics & Paralympics (@NBCOlympics) October 6, 2023
“I was emotional because I won my first world title here and now we’re back,” Biles said after the medal ceremony, where she…
