Simone Biles and Rebeca Andrade showed great sportsmanship during the women’s all-around final.
Simone Biles competed in the women's gymnastics all-around final on Thursday. Biles and Brazil's Rebeca Andrade, who won silver in Tokyo, were separated by just a few tenths of a point after three events. While Andrade was finishing her balance beam rountine, Biles shouted encouragement to her saying, "
Andrade stuck the landing. The two opponents then shared a hug. If you were going to make an ad for competeition and the Olympic spirit and you wrote out this exaact scenario you'd be told it was too on the nose. Instead, it's reality.It's incredible sportsmanship between the two countries and it was also not the first time these two exchanged pleasantries during the all-around competition.They also took a picture together this week.
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