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Saturday 3 November 2018

JOEL,

INDEED!

Simone Biles of the U.S. holds
her silver medal after the
women’s uneven bars final on
the first day of the apparatus
finals of the Gymnastics World
Championships at the Aspire
Dome in Doha, Qatar, Friday,
Nov. 2, 2018.
Associated Press
Biles sets

record by

picking up

13th world

championship

gold

DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Sim-
one Biles made history by
picking up her record 13th
career gold medal at the
world gymnastics champi-
onships when she cruised
to victory in the vault final
on Friday. Yet it’s the silver
she captured on uneven
bars that the Olympic
and world champion may
cherish more. For years
Biles viewed bars with a
mixture of skepticism and
scorn. There was a point in
time she admits she would Clippers can’t stop Joel
have been OK with taking
a “chainsaw” to every bars
set in the country. Those Embiid in loss to 76ers
days are over. Helped in
part by the influence of
new head coach Laurent Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid (21)
Landi, Biles now consid- dunks the ball during the second half on
ers the event a challenge
more than a chore. Maybe an NBA basketball game against the Los
that’s why the smile on the Angeles Clippers, Thursday, Nov. 1, 2018, in
podium during the medal Philadelphia. The 76ers won 122-113.
ceremony after she came Associated Press
in second to Belgium’s
Nina Derwael was so wide. Page 19

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