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When Simone Biles arrived in Brazil for the Rio Olympics, she had yet to claim her first Olympic medal. But when she walked into Maracana Stadium for the Closing Ceremony Sunday, the U.S. gymnast had five to her name ― four of them gold ― and the American flag in her hands.

Team USA members selected Biles to be their flag-bearer at the closing ceremony after she became the first gymnast in the country’s history to win four gold medals in a single Olympics, and the first in the world to do so since 1984. Not since 1936, when Alfred Jochim walked with the flag during the opening ceremony of the Berlin Olympics, has a gymnast acted as flag-bearer for the U.S.

“It’s an incredible honor to be selected as the flag bearer by my Team USA teammates,” Biles told TeamUSA.org. “This experience has been the dream of a lifetime for me and my team and I consider it a privilege to represent my country, the United States Olympic Committee and USA Gymnastics by carrying our flag. I also wish to thank the city of Rio de Janeiro, and the entire country of Brazil, for hosting an incredible Games

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Simone Biles Closes Out Her ‘Incredible’ Olympics as U.S. Flag-Bearer  was originally published on praisecleveland.com