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#BlackGirlMagic: Simone Biles Has Made History By Being The First Woman To Win Four All-Around World Titles

<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">&num;SimoneBiles continues to sprinkle her &num;BlackGirlMagic all over the world&&num;8211&semi;and she’s making history while doing it&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">She recently won the all-around title at the world championships in &num;Doha&comma; &num;Qatar&comma; for the fourth time&comma; which is the most ever in women’s artistic gymnastics&comma; according to &commat;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;cnn&period;com&sol;2018&sol;11&sol;01&sol;sport&sol;simone-biles-wins-fourth-all-around-title-world-championships-gymnastics&sol;index&period;html">CNN<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">Despite a fall on the vault&comma; a fall on the balance beam and stepping out of bounds during her floor exercise routine&comma; she still won by 1&period;693 points &&num;8212&semi; the largest margin of victory of her four titles &&num;8212&semi; and she did it all just days after tweeting that she put off having a kidney stone removed until after the competition&excl;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">Competing and actually winning while technically having a medical condition is nothing short of amazing&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">Fellow USA teammate Morgan Hurd took bronze&comma; while Mai Murakami of Japan won the silver medal&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">In addition to winning the all-around title&comma; Simone&comma; who returned to the sport this summer&comma; led the U&period;S&period; this week to gold&period; And she still can add to her medal haul in the individual vault&comma; uneven bars&comma; beam and floor events&excl;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">Making history is nothing new for Simone&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">At the closing of the last Olympic Games&comma; she won five medals&comma; four of which were gold&comma; which made her the first American gymnast to do so in a single Olympics&period; She also won the all-around gold medal for women’s gymnastics&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">In an interview with TeamUSA&period;org&comma; Simone said&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It’s an incredible honor to be selected as the flag bearer by my Team USA teammates&period; This experience has been the dream of a lifetime for me and my team and I consider it a privilege to represent my country&comma; the United States Olympic Committee and USA Gymnastics by carrying our flag&period; I also wish to thank the city of Rio de Janeiro&comma; and the entire country of Brazil&comma; for hosting an incredible Games&period;”<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">We applaud Simone as she continues to achieve greatness while representing our country so well&excl;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 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