The high praise continues to roll in for U.S. gymnast Simone Biles.
“There is the men’s gymnasts that have this much power, and then there is women’s that have this much, way down here, and she has closed it,” two-time U.S. Olympian Jonathan Horton said in a report from NBC affiliate WTHR in Indianapolis. “She is the first female gymnast I have ever seen that is as powerful or maybe more than the most powerful male gymnast.”
Horton’s comments echo what 1976 Olympic all-around champion Nadia Comaneci said in April and what 1984 Olympic all-around champion Mary Lou Retton said last August.