And after yesterday’s gold medal win in the team final, she made history yet again. Biles is now also the most decorated American gymnast ever. With places in the all-around, balance beam, vault and floor exercise finals to come, she could also earn the title of the USA’s most decorated female Olympian outside of the pool.

But for all her success, Biles’s medals and accolades are far from the only impressive thing about her. It has been the moments away from the pressure of international competition that have inspired thousands of people across the world. Not only did she bravely come forward with firsthand testimony of her abuse at the hands of the US gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar, but she used her experience to implore US government officials to safeguard gymnasts of the future. Her speech in front of a senate judiciary committee came just months after she returned home from the Tokyo Olympics, where she was forced to withdraw from the team gymnastics final due to her struggles with the ‘twisties’. Following that, she took a two-year hiatus from gymnastics.

Why Simone Biles truly is the one and only GOAT of modern gymnastics