Simone Biles wins record eighth US all-around title as comeback continues

Simone Biles is the astir decorated US gymnast of all-tme

Simone Biles broke a 90-year grounds by winning her eighth all-around rubric astatine the US Gymnastics Championships.

The 26-year-old's level regular earned a people of 15.400, giving her an all-around full of 118.450, with Shilese Jones 3.9 points backmost successful second.

Biles moves up of Alfred Jochim, who claimed his seventh US rubric successful 1933.

She was the lone rival to decorativeness the 2 days of contention successful San Jose with 2 scores of 15 oregon higher, having taken power of the lawsuit with 15.700 connected the vault connected Friday.

Biles archetypal became US all-around champion successful 2013 and matched Jochim's grounds successful 2021.

Later that twelvemonth she took a interruption from gymnastics aft pulling retired of 5 of her six finals astatine the delayed Tokyo Olympics.

She aboriginal explained she had been experiencing 'the twisties' - a benignant of intelligence artifact wherever gymnasts tin suffer their consciousness of abstraction successful the air.

Biles, who did negociate to triumph a equilibrium beam bronze and a squad metallic successful Tokyo, is yet to bespeak whether she volition purpose to vie astatine adjacent year's Olympics successful Paris.

But she is expected to instrumentality portion successful the World Championships successful Antwerp from 30 September to 8 October, wherever she would person the accidental to adhd to her tally of 25 satellite medals, including 19 golds.