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Editor's note
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As the 2019 World Gymnastics Championships start today in Stuttgart, Germany, all eyes will be on Simone Biles. At 22, the US athlete already has 20 world championship medals and five Olympic medals under her belt, and she hasn’t lost an all-around competition since 2013.
But as Ella Donald writes, Biles is not only the greatest athlete the sport has ever seen, she has also changed the face of the sport forever. She is a power gymnast, exploding off the floor in skills never performed before, but she is just as powerful a voice in advocating against racism and for the protection of young girls and women from abuse and sexual assault in sport.
She is, in short, one of the most important sports people in the world today – and you should know her name.
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Jane Howard
Deputy Section Editor: Arts + Culture
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Top story
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Simone Biles is the greatest gymnast the world has ever seen – but she is also unlike any other athlete the sport has known.
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Ella Donald, The University of Queensland
Simone Biles enters the 2019 World Gymnastics Championships already with the most all-around gold medals ever. The greatest of all time, she has changed the sport forever.
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Lambie, everyone says, is “keeping her cards close to her chest”.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
The government would be willing to put a feast on the table to get a win on the medevac repeal, but this is a piece of legislation on which Lambie should not contemplate any deals.
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IVF and the businesses that spring up alongside it are part of a multi-billion dollar global market for fertility treatments.
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As the impeachment inquiry gathers pace in the US, Donald Trump is likely to keep doubling down on his opponents.
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As the impeachment inquiry gathers pace, both sides seem to be digging in. What happens in the inquiry in the next few months will have a huge impact on the 2020 presidential election.
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Environment + Energy
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Ted Lefroy, University of Tasmania; David Bowman, University of Tasmania; Grant Williamson, University of Tasmania; Penelope Jones, University of Tasmania
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Richard Matthews, University of Adelaide
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Health + Medicine
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