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Simone Biles just become the most decorated American gymnast ever. Let that sink in. Not most decorated woman, not most decorated African-American – most decorated American, ever.

At the Gymnastic World Championships, held in Doha, Qatar Oct. 25-Nov. 3, Biles secured her fourth all-around gold medal, along with five more medals and became the first American to medal in all events.

In addition to breaking U.S. records, Biles also now holds more all-around championships at Worlds than any other female gymnast ever.

Biles rose to fame after the 2016 Olympic games in Rio. She flipped and flew her way to five medals at the game – four of them gold. She tied with fellow American swimmer Katie Ledecky as the most decorated woman at the summer games.

By now Biles is used to doing things no one else has done before. In 2015, her gymnastic skills were already known worldwide. She became America’s most decorated female gymnast by winning 14 medals and 10 World Championships after only competing on the international level three times.

She became America’s shining star when, at only 19, she easily crushed the competition at the 2016 Olympics and lead the U.S. women to a team gold. She also debuted her now signature double layout half twist with blind landing – a move now deemed “‘the Biles.”

The Biles is so difficult even most male gymnasts do not dare attempt it in competition.

Biles returned to international competition Oct. 25. Despite her stellar record and world-renowned skills, it seemed Biles was not going to be able to continue her gold streak.

After the last Olympics, Biles took two years off from the competition. Many doubted she would return to her level of success. She has also had an emotional year, revealing in January that she was one of former team doctor Larry Nassar’s sexual abuse victims.

Just 24 hours before this year’s World Championships, Biles revealed on social media that she had been rushed to the emergency room and diagnosed with a kidney stone. She was told by doctors that the stone was too large to pass. Because of anti-doping regulations, Biles could not take any medications for her pain.

Biles, however, proved herself a champion when she chose to power through the pain and compete at the World Championships.

It was not Biles’ best. She fell on vault and balance beam and stepped out of bounds on her floor routine. These mistakes were uncharacteristic of Biles, and she took to Twitter to apologize for her performance to fans.

“Didn’t mean to give everyone a heart attack. I apologize. I won’t do that again,” said Biles.

didn’t mean to give everyone a heart attack. I apologize. ? I won’t do that again

— Simone Biles (@Simone_Biles) November 1, 2018

Despite numerous mistakes, Biles still managed to secure six medals, including all-around gold.

The results should not surprise anyone in the gymnastics world. It has long been a running joke that Biles could fall two or three times and still beat everyone else because of her huge margins of victory. She proved them right.

Biles’ success comes from her difficulty scores, higher than any other woman by far. Biles typically nails tricks no one else, including most of the men, will ever try in competition. That means that even when Biles falls off the beam or fumbles her landing off the vault, she will still score higher than any other gymnast.

And she did – winning the all-around by a margin of 1.693 points ahead of Japan’s Mai Murakami. The only time anyone scored a bigger margin of victory was Biles in the 2016 Olympics, with a 2.1 lead.

After the competition, Biles was open about her frustrations.  

“I’m really happy to be done. (I’m) proud of my performance here. I wish some of them would have been better, but I’m really happy with the outcome,” Biles stated.

Biles already showed that will that she was the best in the 2016 Summer Olympics. Last week, she showed the world she is still the best – and that she’s won’t be done with gymnastics anytime soon.

Yes, she made mistakes she never has before in competition. However, her routines were somehow even more difficult than ones fans saw her perform in Rio. Biles also soared to new heights in her uneven bars and vault, winning a medal in these events for the first time. This most likely is thanks to her new coach Laurent Landi who trained Madison Kocian for the Games in Rio

After the 2018 World Championship, one thing is certain – Biles is back. With only two years until the next Summer Olympics, Biles is sure to be a prominent figure for the U.S. team in the future. Even with two years off from training and a kidney stone, she was still the best overall gymnast in the world. With more training and some medical treatment, she can only get better in Tokyo in the 2020 Olympic Games.

She left Rio with four gold medals, setting a new American women’s gymnastics record for most gold medals won in a single Olympics. Queen B(iles) still managed to take home the bronze in the balance beam final after nearly falling off and receiving a full point deduction for grabbing the beam. Almost any other gymnast would have seen their chances of medaling go out the window with a mistake of that magnitude, but Biles’s start values were so high compared to other competitors that she still medaled.

Biles has rewritten the sport of gymnastics, doing tricks that would previously have been thought of as impossible. She created a new skill, the Biles, which she performs in the second tumbling pass of her floor routine. The Biles is a double layout with a half twist. The half twist adds a blind landing to the skill which makes it harder for the athlete to stick it.

The difficulty and precision at which Biles executes her routines is nearly flawless. She redefines what it means to “stick it” and flies through the air as if she is defying gravity. When other gymnasts would already be on their descent back to the floor, Biles is still ascending, all while twisting and turning faster than I can even wrap my head around.

But what’s really important about Biles is that even when she finishes her routine and my jaw has dropped, she still critiques herself. She is constantly pushing herself to be better when the world believes that she is already perfect.

The alteration in gymnastics scoring ten years ago opened the door for gymnasts like Biles. The elimination of the perfect 10 encouraged gymnasts to reach for new levels. Now, each routine is given a start value based on difficulty. The higher the difficulty, the higher the possible score. Gymnasts now have to push the limits instead of focusing on perfecting smaller, easier tricks.

Aside from being the greatest gymnast, Biles shows wisdom beyond her years in the way she handles adversity. During the games, Biles received negative comments from NBC anchor Al Trautwig in regards to her family dynamics. Biles and her sister Adria were adopted by their grandparents in the early 2000s as their biological mother dealt with substance abuse. The sisters have known them as mom and dad ever since. Trautwig critiqued the label.

“They may be mom and dad but they are NOT her parents,” said Trautwig on Twitter.

Biles response did not show anger, but instead showed poise and eloquence.

“I personally don’t have a comment. My parents are my parents and that’s it,” said Biles.

More recently, Russian hackers posted medical records of US Olympic athletes online. Biles was among one of the targeted. Her records showed that she had tested positive for Ritalin, a common medicine for treating ADHD. Biles was quick to respond to this accusation.

“I have ADHD and I have taken medicine for it since I was a kid. Please know, I believe in clean sport, have always followed the rules, and will continue to do so as fair play is critical to sport and is very important to me,” said Biles to her followers on Twitter.

The president of USA Gymnastics has affirmed this claim and reported that Biles had completed all the necessary paperwork for the medication.

Disclosing medical records is a personal invasion in itself, but Biles spoke out for the mental illness community and said that she is not ashamed to share her disorder with the world.

Overall, words cannot do enough to describe Biles as a gymnast and a person. Sometimes, we might even consider her to be superhuman. But in the end, we are reminded that she is still a human teenage girl because she literally collapsed when she met Zac Efron.