The Associated Press announced the 2023 Player of the Year award on Sunday (Korea Standard Time). Biles, the U.S. national gymnastics team, was chosen as the female athlete of the year. She received the honor by beating basketball player Caitlin Clark, who received a total of 19 votes and 15 votes.
Biles became the third female AP player of the year following 2016 and 2019. Only six players have won the award more than three times. Serena Williams (tennis) has won six awards, Serena Williams (tennis) has won five, Chris Ebert (tennis) has won four, Maureen Connolly (tennis) and Annika Sorenstam (Golf).
Biles is a living legend in gymnastics. She won four gold medals and one silver medal at the 2023 World Championships, marking her return after two years of marriage. She also won the individual all-around, floor, and average competitions at the 2023 U.S. Classic, winning three gold medals.
Biles is a legend who broke the prejudice that black people are weak in gymnastics. She started her legend by winning gold medals in the individual all-around and floor events at the 2013 World Championships when she was 16. She went on to win gold medals at the 2014, 2015, 2018 and 2019 World Championships, becoming the only female athlete to win five individual all-around titles.
At the 2016 Rio Olympics, she won four gold medals including individual all-around, vault, floor, and team event, and was named AP Female Athlete of the Year. She also became an individual all-around winner at both the World Championship and Olympics.
Biles, who passed the height of 142 centimeters, displayed overwhelming jump power and high-level movements to bring people’s exclamations. There are four gymnastics techniques named after Biles. There are one each for the vault and the balance sheet, and two for the floor. In particular, athletes reportedly do tumbling once or twice on the floor, but Biles does it four times. Some even say that it is an unrealistic move.
Biles also had a crisis. Biles was expected to be the first athlete to compete in all events at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, but withdrew due to mental health reasons. Biles only won a bronze medal in the average competition. “I feel like I’m carrying the weight of the world on my shoulders,” Biles wrote on his social networking service ahead of the Olympics. “I made the decision to protect my body and mind. I was confused all of a sudden and there was no distinction between the top and bottom.” It was reported that gymnasts had a “twisty” phenomenon where they couldn’t recognize where their bodies were when they were floating in the air. 온라인카지노사이트
Biles married Jonathan Owens in April this year. Biles, who has regained stability, won four gold medals and one silver medal at this year’s World Championships, making a perfect comeback. Biles is famous for having his GOAT, a shortened form of “Greatest Of All Time,” which refers to the greatest player in history, on his uniform. It is said that he made the inscription not to show off but to fight back at the slanderous people. “I hope the kids won’t be ashamed of themselves for being good at anything when they see Goldie,” he said in a past interview.
Meanwhile, the Associated Press named Shohei Ohtani as its male player of the year. Ohtani recently made a contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers for 700 million U.S. dollars, the highest in the world’s sports history. Ohtani, who became the first Asian home run king with 10 wins and 40 home runs in the U.S. Major League Baseball this year, became the first MVP in MLB history.