Gracious, petty and brilliant – Biles is arguably bigger than the US Olympic movement

There is a credible argument that the gymnast has been America’s best athlete for more than a decade. And she now wields incredible influenceThe latest medal table | Live schedule | Full resultsEight years ago at the Rio Olympics, when Simone Biles made the quantum leap from gymnastics-famous to worldwide household name with her epochal four-golds-in-seven-days masterclass, the most common refrain to describe her greatness was that her routines were so preposterously difficult that she cou