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Ian MacNicol, Getty Images Simone Biles can officially book that plane ticket for Brazil. Same for defending Olympic champion Gabby Douglas. Biles, the three-time world gymnastics champion, secured her spot on the U.S. Olympic team with a near flawless tour of the SAP Center on Sunday night, earning an automatic berth on the five-woman team […]

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The U.S. women’s gymnastics team won its first Olympic team goldmedal since 1996 and only its second in history at the London Games, as Russia, its closest competitor, imploded on its final event. With it, this group of American women — some are already hailing them as the Fab Five — takes its place alongside […]