Simone Biles is one of 11 finalists for Time‘s Person of the Year.
Time‘s Person of the Year, named annually since 1927, has never been an individual athlete or team. Tennis player Billie Jean King was part of the “American Women” group named in 1975.
In 2015, the 1976 Olympic decathlon champion Caitlyn Jenner was one of eight finalists.
The Person of the Year “is the person or persons who most affected the news and our lives, for good or ill, and embodied what was important about the year.