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"World champions of what?"

Billed as a match-up between the viral track star and Team Jamaica, Richardson didn't finish in the top 5.

Aliyah Shipman, a teenage star Taekwondo fighter who used to compete with Team USA, says she is being blocked from fighting at the Tokyo Olympics because she represents Haiti now.

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Simone Biles has been named the 2019 Team USA Olympic Female Athlete of the Year.

Jordan Greenway, 20, has become the first Black man to be a part of Team USA’s hockey team at the Winter Olympic Games.

Biles leaves Rio with tremendous accomplishments; she won a total of five medals--four gold and one bronze. She's the first U.S. gymnast to win four gold medals in a single Olympics.

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“He lied to you, he lied to Matt Lauer, he lied to his mom,” Al Roker said during the heated Today Show segment. “He left his teammates hanging while he skedaddled. There was no robbery, there was no pull over. He lied.”

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Simone Biles is the flyest chick in this gymnastics game. The 19-year-old American phenom has long been considered the best gymnast alive, and now she has the medals to prove it.

Looking for a person to root for during the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics? Certified star-gymnast Simone Biles should be your top pick.