How Simone Biles' greatness and U.S. gymnastics dominance came together
Posted Aug 14, 2016
Off to the side, off in the shadows, Bela Karolyi stood and watched this outrageous, audacious gymnast before him. He had, in many ways, four decades prior created this, the American infatuation with gymnastics. Ever since he and his wife Marta had cultivated it, stoking the fires of a juggernaut. One generation greater than the next, Nadia to Mary Lou to this, Bela at 73 years old staring as Simone Biles soared higher and spun faster than he ever could have fathomed.
(Yahoo! Sports)
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