There were fans of Brazil's Rebeca Andrade in the crowd, too. It was impossible to ignore how loud the crowd got for Andrade, Biles's friend and closest rival. But Biles and Andrade are competing at such a high level that they turn everyone into fans.
competitor, and delivered two beautiful vaults to hearty applause, but neither was the triple-twisting Yurchenko which she had teased. (She, too, has an unofficial press corps at these Olympics. No one else can understand what it's like to be Simone Biles, but Rebeca Andrade comes close.) Andrade scored 14.
