"the fact I'll never do a triple double again," Biles wrote, adding a face-holding-back-tears emoji as she publicly said goodbye to the floor exercise element that required her to simultaneously execute three twists and two backflips in a tucked position.
"I feel like you should never settle just because you are winning or you are at the top," Biles told the New York Times in the lead-up to her debuting the skill and winning the 2019 U.S. Gymnastics Championships.
At this stage in her career - and after becoming the most-decorated gymnast ever with 11 Olympic medals and 30 world medals - 27-year-old Biles knows her body needs to rest.
Now that Biles' triple-double days are over, fans are as emotional as the seven-time Olympic gold medalist is. She remains the only woman to compete it, and gymnastics lovers made sure to applaud her incredible feat.
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