Team USA’s Simone Biles has once again cemented her legacy as the greatest American gymnast of all time with her performance at the Paris Olympic Games, winning the highest honor of all on Thursday.
As NPR reports, Biles not only helped her team earn a gold medal, but also took home all-around individual honors.
For the second time in her remarkable career, the peerless gymnast Simone Biles won the Olympic individual all-around final title, only two days after leading the U.S. women’s team back to the gold medal in the team event.
Unlike many of her other medals over the years, this one did not come easily. Her gold required overcoming an unusually poor performance on the uneven bars that briefly put her into third place behind two strong competitors, including Brazil’s Rebeca Andrade, the gymnast widely considered to be the world’s second best.
But the setback was not enough to prevent her from winning her sixth Olympic gold and her ninth Olympic medal overall, more than any other U.S. gymnast ever.
After Biles reached her historic accomplishment, singer Ricky Davila congratulated her on Twitter with this post: “Simone Biles being the GOAT, winning Gold medals and dominating gymnastics is her black job.”
The “black job” reference is a clear dig at failed one-term ex-president Donald Trump, who said at the June 27 presidential debate with President Joe Biden that undocumented immigrants are “taking black jobs now.”
Biles replied to Davila (and Trump) with epic shade aimed directly at the convicted felon and 2024 Republican presidential nominee.
That prompted an outpouring of applause and kudos from others on social media.