Following Stellar Win For USA, Shilese Jones Joins Joscelyn Roberson and Leanne Wong In Another Great Honour

The 2023 gymnastics season for Team USA concluded on a great note. From Simone Biles‘ comeback to Fred Richard’s iconic performances, Team USA left no stone unturned to serve thrill to its spectators. Interestingly, two months after the 2023 World Artistic Gymnastics reached its conclusion, the USA Gymnastics acknowledged some of the best performances and the performers who made this season a great success.

With their commendable routines on the mats of Antwerp, the US women’s gymnastics team bagged the ticket to Paris by earning the seventh straight global title. Hence, to celebrate the stellar winning spree of Team USA, the women’s gymnastics received the honorable acknowledgement for standing atop the podium at the 2023 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships and breaking the record.

The Team USA has been honored with a well-deserved title by the US Gymnastics

The season 2023 has been a great year for Team USA in gymnastics. Their beautiful performances were sight to behold as they paved their way to the French capital. Following this, as the team received an honor for their incredible feat in Antwerp, Shilese Jones took to her Instagram stories for sharing the post of the US Gymnastics about the title given to the women’s team.

The US women’s gynastics team of Simone Biles, Shilese Jones, Joscelyn Roberson, Leanne Wong, Skye Blakely, and Kayla DiCello received the honorable title of “Record Breakers of the Year.” In Antwerp, the team finished with a total of 167.729. This win was the seventh straight global title for the Americans, which also broke the tie for most wins in a row with the Chinese men’s squad.

After the US team, stood Brazil with a team total of 165.530, and in the third position was France with a time of 164.064. Simone Biles beautifully led the team and while attaining beautiful wins for herself, she also took the team to another level of victories.

Nevertheless, for flaunting some commendable performances throughout the season, gymnastics queen Simone Biles’ incredible feat received the mention of “Comeback of the Year” title.

Simone Biles spectacularly led Team USA atop the podium

The start for the US Team was a little imbalanced, as Joscelyn Roberson went through an unfortunate incident in the warm-up vault. She was carried off by coach Laurent Landi from the podium. In her place, Leanne Wong performed who was just supposed to compete on the beam balance. Shilese Jones and Wong delivered a beautiful Yurchenko double fulls for scores of 14.100 and 14.033 respectively. However, Biles led the scores with a 14.800.

“Before going up on floor, I was like, ‘What do I need? What do I need?’ And usually you don’t feel that pressure, so I think the pressure was a little bit on but we stood up to the occassion,” added Biles.

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Biles and Blakely gave a stupendous performance in the uneven bars too. There were some shaky instances that portrayed things that might get difficult for the team. However, all the talented gymnasts delivered stellar performances together and surpassed the Chinese men’s squad’s record.

“I think our grit and fight [makes this team special]. I mean, it wasn’t our perfect meet today, we had a teammate go down, and we had some mistakes here and there, [but we] just keep going, keep pushing, keep relying on our training because it was not our best day and that was a little bit close watching those standings,” conceded Biles after delivering an extraordinary performance in Belgium.

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