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(NEXSTAR) -- American Simone Biles continued her magical tally astatine the Paris Games winning her 3rd golden medal successful the past week. With the Saturday triumph successful vault, Biles wins the seventh Olympic golden medal of her career, and 10th overall.
She scored an mean of 15.300 for her 2 vaults, a rotation that included her signature Yurchenko treble pike, which is the hardest being done successful contention by immoderate pistillate gymnast. The competiton averages a competitor's 2 champion vaults of 3 attemps.
Jade Carey of Team USA won the bronze medal.
This has been an astonishing week for Biles, who went into Saturday's vault contention with golden medals successful the women's squad last and the all-around and drew a star-studded assemblage each clip she competed. She has much golden medals than immoderate different American gymnast.
Biles inactive has 2 much events, too. She has the equilibrium beam and level workout connected Monday.
Three years aft she pulled retired of astir of her events astatine the Tokyo Olympics to code her intelligence health, Biles has bounced backmost to go lone the 3rd pistillate to go a two-time all-around champion. She joined Larisa Latynina of the Soviet Union successful 1956 and 1960 and Vera Caslavska of Czechoslovakia successful 1964 and 1968.
And astatine 27, she's the oldest to decorativeness atop the all-around podium since past 30-year-old Maria Gorokhovskaya of the Soviet Union won the first-ever Olympic all-around successful Helsinki successful 1952.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
