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US star Simone Biles failed in her bid to become the first women’s gymnast to win five golds at one Olympics when she fell off the beam and finished second on the floor as the Paris programme wrapped up on Monday. Biles had already won the team, all-around and vault competition in the French capital to go with her four golds from Rio 2016, a superb return to the Games after mental health problems left her without gold in Tokyo three years ago. But her chance of matching Larisa Latynina’s (1956-1964) gymnastics record of nine golds across Games in Paris ended after falling off the beam and fini…

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