FRIDAY 13 AUGUST 2021 Everything to Know About Venom 2 SEE ON PAGE 4-5 HIMYM Spinoff Cast Announced SEE ON PAGE 3 Facts About Simone Biles Simone Biles is the most decorated female gymnast ever, with 30 World and Olympic medals. The 24-year-old has won 25 World medals, including 19 golds—the most in gymnastics history. At the Olympic Games in Rio in 2016, Biles became the first female US gymnast to win four gold medals at a single Games. She’s also a seven-time US all-around champion and the first woman to win five World all-around titles, three World balance beam titles, and five World floor exercise titles. She’s hoping to add to the haul at the Olympic Games in Tokyo this summer. Here are few facts from Biles’s fascinating life so far. From a daycare field trip to a Olympics The 4-foot-8-inch Biles was born in Columbus, Ohio, and now lives near Houston, Texas. When Biles was six, she took a daycare A Piercing field trip to Bannon’s Gymnastix outside of Houston and imitated the older gymnasts. The coaches spotted her talent and sent a letter home to her parents suggesting Biles take up the sport. Biles worked with coach Aimee Boorman through the Rio Olympics, took a year off, and then began training with Cecile and Masterpiece About Laurent Landi in October 2017. A sister gymnast Simone and her younger sister, Adria, were raised by their parents, Nellie and Ron, their biological grandparents who adopted the girls at a young age. Adria also competed in gymnastics and trained alongside Simone until the age of 16. What Makes a Hero Adria calls her sister “fearless” and told ESPN that when they were little, Simone would jump off a second-floor railing onto a couch one floor below. The sisters look a lot alike, so much so that Food for Thought: The Green Knight even though Adria is about 6 inches taller, fans mistook her for Simone at the Rio Olympics so often that Adria finally stopped BY BRANDON YU trying to correct people and let them snap her photo. It was early on in The Green Knight when ADHD diagnosis I began to think, rather unexpectedly, of In 2016, Russian hackers broke into the World Anti-Doping Simone Biles. Not long into the film, King Agency’s website and publicised various athletes’ private medical Arthur (Sean Harris), the uncle of Sir records, including Biles’. Biles was diagnosed with ADHD as a Gawain, the wayward protagonist of David child and takes Ritalin, a stimulant that is on the agency’s Lowery’s staggeringly audacious new banned list. However, Biles has approval from USA gymnastics to work, wonders if it’s such a bad thing to take the medication in a therapeutic-use exemption. Biles took to want greatness for his nephew. Gawain (a Twitter to send a message that taking medication for ADHD is stellar Dev Patel working at full capacity), nothing to be ashamed of. at this point just a hard-partying young man shrugging off the expectations of his Four gymnastics moves to her name becoming a knight, does not believe he is To have a move named after them, a gymnast must submit it to destined for such a thing. More a governing body for consideration and then successfully land it specifically, he seems to be afraid of what at a major competition. There are four moves that bear the it takes to be great. name Biles: two on floor, one on beam, and one on vault. In The notion of greatness and how it is addition, in May Biles became the first female gymnast to built and perceived undergirds the successfully perform a vault move called the Yurchenko double mesmerising, terrifyingly beautiful fever pike in competition. The move involves a roundoff back dream that is The Green Knight. It is one of handspring onto the springboard, then vaulting high enough to the special things about Lowery’s complete two flips in a pike position. approach, in taking on a canonical insurmountable toil under the weight of giants that goes largely unexplained (it Controversy ensued when the judges gave it a scoring value of Arthurian legend, that of the tale of Sir expectation. She provided a sobering lens, might be some mushrooms that he ate 6.6, similar to other, less risky moves. Biles and others criticised Gawain and the Green Knight, it flips it on what does a circular piece of metal, or a awhile earlier, even though the timing the International Gymnastics Federation for artificially deflating its head by concerning itself with the idea certain amount of spins and twirls, all doesn’t really check out). Is this how we the point value of the Yurchenko double pike to discourage less- of its own myth-making. In an earlier really mean, outside of what we’ve see ourselves, when we are in fact so much skilled athletes from attempting it for their own safety—and to scene, King Arthur asks his nephew to tell invented around them and in the face of a smaller? In reaching ambitiously for prevent someone like Biles from running away with a competition. him a tale about himself, to which Gawain person’s fundamental safety and well- allegorical ideas around the folly of man, Her own emoji shamefully admits he has none to tell. To being? Lowery is also smart enough to create a become a knight as part of King Arthur’s The Green Knight might ultimately land film that is resolute in not providing The ‘Simoji,’ a 99-cent app, features a variety of cartoon round table is to know you have to embark on the side of endorsing the notion of a answers to its many mysteries. The result gymnast figures in Biles’s likeness. Biles said in a quick- on the hero-making adventure if you are to knightly courage, but its most interesting is daring cinema. The end of the film is an hit YouTube interview with USA Gymnastics that her favourite have stories that will be rehearsed and parts are when it persistently interrogates ambitious, marvellous gamble that fast- emoji overall is the winking smiley face with its tongue sticking told. the nature of man’s arbitrary ideas of forwards through the years and follows out. Gawain is quickly given the opportunity. greatness, honour and bravery. Late in the Gawain’s aging (Patel adeptly offers Chased by a bee around the podium Aided by the witchcraft of Gawain’s mother film, when Gawain finds himself at a castle another dimension here to his talent) like (Sarita Choudhury), the eponymous and toward the end of his journey, the Lady an arc of man — through time and war, At the 2014 World Championships in Nanning, China, 16-year- mysterious green knight (Ralph Ineson) (Alicia Vikander, who also plays Gawain’s the making of a king and the fall of a old Biles was holding a bouquet of flowers on the podium after strides in on Christmas day and offers a lover — a double casting that is one strand kingdom — only to erase it all in instant. winning gold in the individual all-around when Romanian silver challenge to anyone at the round table, of the film’s delightfully unexplained It’s a treasure to simply see a film that is medallist Lorisa Lordache pointed out a bee. Biles tried to shake land a free blow upon him, and next mysteries and layered meanings) asks why willing and allowed to go absolutely the bee out of the bouquet, which of course prompted it to buzz Christmas, the challenger must visit him the green knight is, in fact, green. In bonkers — alongside the unexplained around in anger. Biles dropped the flowers, screamed, at the Green Chapel six days north to considering this, she unspools a giant men and disembodied heads that and ducked and danced away from the insect, laughing all the receive a reciprocated blow. Gawain leaps contemptuous monologue about the talk is also a talking fox, gorgeously while. at the challenge, finally able to prove his silliness and smallness of men and their surreal imagery and a fittingly operatic Competing with a kidney stone mettle, and beheads the knight. invented definitions of virtue, how the score — in a way that mirrors the Patel masterfully embodies a desperate, earth will grow over them and be here long gargantuan mythos and the infinite Biles led her team to gold at the World Gymnastics fumbling desire for courage, as the film after their games. (Not coincidentally, the interpretations of a fable. (It also feels like Championship in Doha, Qatar, despite visiting the ER the night tracks Gawain’s utter fear while he Lady, who eventually seduces him and a middle finger to the state of things in before the event. Biles said she had been experiencing stomach prepares to meet the knight again a year declares he is “no knight,” is the same face Hollywood — the film came out the same pain on her right side for a couple of days and went to the hospital later. He seems both determined and of his lover who earlier in the film asks weekend of the new Disneyland-ride- as a precaution, thinking of appendicitis. Testing revealed a ambivalent about earning his badge of Gawain why he must go on this quest to turned-blockbuster Jungle Cruise and kidney stone, which Biles didn’t pass prior to the competition. honour, the virtue, he unconvincingly begin with; why he should bother with made on a fraction of a fraction of its Instead, she went out and posted the highest individual scores for opines at one point, that dictates why a caring about a certain definition of how to budget, while infinitely more gorgeous and beam, vault, and the floor events, and was second on uneven knight does what he does.