The US athlete did so in the vault discipline, which she competed in the final on Saturday, with a vault with a difficulty of over 6, her gravity-defying Yurchenko double -now named the Biles II- and then a quick test that included lateral somersaults, a somersault in a plank and a pirouette and a half somersault in the vault, and a double somersault and a half somersault in the vault.

The most decorated gymnast of all time (including men and women, 40 Olympic and world medals, 30 are Gold,10 are Oylmpics) equalled her all-around mark of 15,300 points on Sunday and unleashed a furore from a crowd that is now devoted every time they see her on a court. Biles regained another of the golds she won in Rio de Janeiro 2016 and then failed to defend three years ago in Tokyo, where she suffered a mental block,. 

Taking Olympic titles into account, the American star now equals Czech Vera Caslavska, who also won seven during her career, and is two behind legend Larissa Latynina, who won nine, the most in gymnastics so far.

Biles, winner of 23 world titles, could match her if on Monday she also wins the title on floor, where she was champion at Rio 2016, and on balance beam, where she has two bronze medals (one at Rio 2016 and the other at Tokyo 2020).

Brazil's Rebeca Andrade had two great and complex heats, with some imperfection that kept her from the highest heights, beating her own mark to 14.966, but it was not enough to catch Biles, who has become practically the measure of perfection. 

 Shet gots silver, and bronce becamoes to USA's Jade Carey, with a graceful and comfortable performance that included a double planche pirouette, reached 14.466. Olympic champion in Tokyo and current world champion on the vaul, this is her second medal in Paris after the team bronze for Brazil.

North Korea's Chang Ok An amazed with a double pirouette in a performance that improved with the somersault and plank pirouette, as the applause and score proved, in her elegant second set. 14.216 points, which also improved her own score from Sunday. Bulgaria's Valentina Georgieva's 13.983 took her fifth in her first Olympics and final. 

Canada's Shallon Olsen had a one-point penalty for a double pirouette failure when she fell to her knees, which caused her to drop eight tenths of a point from her previous best, leaving her with 13.366. Canada's Elsabeth Black was also below 14, with 13.933. In between the two Canadians was South Korea's Seojeon Keo with 13.416. 

Floor for Philippines

A thrilled and at times disbelieving Carlos Edriel of the Philippines won gold in the artistic gymnastics floor exercise final at the Bercy Arena in Paris on Saturday.

With a score of 15,000 points, Edriel won a historic medal for his country in an applauded and fiercely-contested competition in which many places were decided by tenths of a second.

Edriel, 24 years, already had three World Championship medals (two golds on vault and floor and a silver on parallel bars) and was the first Filipino to win one. 

Silver went to the previous champion Israel's Artem Dolgopiat with 14.966 and bronze to Great Britain's Jake Jarma with 14.933.
Outside the podium were Ukraine's Illia Kovtun, 14.533, Kazakhstan's Milad Karimi, 14.500, Great Britain's Luke Whitehouse, 14.466, Spain's Ray Zapata, 14.333, and China's Boheng Zhang, 13.933, the only one under 14.000.

Pommel horse

Ireland's Rhys McGlenaghan was crowned Olympic gold medallist in Saturday's horse archery final in Paris with 15,533 points, while silver went to Kazakhstan's Nariman Kurbanov (15,433) and the USA's Stephen Nedoroscik (15,300). Below them were Great Britain's Max Whitlock and Ukraine's Oleg Verniaiev, who was hoping to win a medal to shed light on the war situation in his country.