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10A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 2016 CONTACT US FOLLOW US facebook.com/ DailyAstorianSports Gary Henley | Sports Reporter ghenley@dailyastorian.com Biles soars to Female Athlete of the Year Olympian has electric smile, boundless talent Titans’ Mariota to have surgery Wednesday Associated Press By WILL GRAVES Associated Press Simone Biles tried to treat the 2016 Summer Olympics like just your aver- age ordinary gymnastics meet. So what if the stage and the stakes were different? The floor was still the floor. The vault still the vault. The uneven bars still uneven. The balance beam still a four-inch wide test of nerves. And the 19-year-old with the elec- tric smile and boundless talent was still the best in the world. Maybe the best of all-time. Over the course of 10 days in August, the biggest meet of her life ended like pretty much all the others in the four years that came before it: with Biles standing atop the podium, a gold medal around her neck and the sport she’s redefining one boundary-push- ing routine at a time staring up at her. Not that she remembers any of it. “It’s kind of a blur,” Biles said. Maybe to Biles, but not to the rest of the world. Her massive haul in Rio de Janeiro — a record-tying four golds to go along with a bronze for the dom- inant U.S. women’s team — propelled her to stardom and rendered her last name superfluous. Now there’s one more honor to add to what on Twit- ter is known simply as #SimoneTh- ings: Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year. Ledecky second In a vote by U.S. editors and news directors announced Monday, Biles received 31 votes out of a possible 59 votes. U.S. Olympic swimmer Katie Ledecky, who won four golds and a silver in Rio, finished second with 20 votes. Serena Williams, who won Wimbledon for the seventh time to tie Steffi Graf’s record of 22 Grand Slam titles, and three-time AP women’s AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell United States’ Simone Biles performs on the balance beam during the artistic gymnastics women’s team final at the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Biles was selected as the AP Female Athlete of the Year on Monday. NCAA basketball Player of the Year Breanna Stewart tied for third with four votes each. The AP Male Athlete of the Year will be announced Tuesday. Biles became the fifth gymnast to win the honor, joining Olga Korbut in 1972, Nadia Comaneci in 1976, Mary Lou Retton in 1984 and Gabby Doug- las in 2012. It’s company Biles joined while completing a run of dominance that included three straight all-around World Championships, an unprece- dented run at the top in a sport where peaks are often measured in months, not years. The teenager from Spring, Texas, hardly seemed burdened by the out- sized expectations. If anything, she embraced them. She opted out of a verbal commitment to compete colle- giately at UCLA to turn professional so she could cash in on the lucra- tive opportunities afforded an Olym- pic champion, a bit of a gamble con- sidering the window is so narrow and directly tied to success at the Games. Yet Biles seemed immune to it. At least on the outside. Inside, there were more than a few butterflies when she stepped onto the floor during team pre- liminaries on Aug. 7. They vanished the moment she stepped onto the green and cream colored floor at Rio Olym- pic Arena as she and the rest of her “Final Five” teammates — Douglas, Aly Raisman, Laurie Hernandez and Madison Kocian — put on a clinic that showcased how substantial the gap between the Americans and the rest of the world has grown. Then again, the gulf between Biles and every other gymnast on the planet — even her good friends in red, white and blue — may be even wider. “In prelims I did very well I kind of shocked myself,” Biles said. “I came in thinking, ‘I’ve been to three worlds.’ I knew the gist of it. Once I got (pre- lims) out of the way, I just kind of relaxed.” What followed was a run of bril- liance: a team gold as a fitting send off to retiring national team coordi- nator Martha Karolyi. Another in the all-around two days later, where her score of 62.198 bettered Raisman by more than two full points, the gymnas- tics equivalent of winning a football game by three touchdowns. A third gold came on vault, the first ever by an American woman at the Olympics and Biles’ first in major international competition to fill the only hole in her increasingly peerless resume. A bronze on beam followed thanks to a messy landing on a front flip, her only major form break in Rio. No mat- ter, she put the exclamation point on her gold rush with a gravity-escap- ing floor routine that ended with Biles rushing to embrace longtime coach Aimee Boorman as their long journey to this moment ended in triumph. The ensuing four months have been a whirlwind. Biles carried the U.S. flag at closing ceremonies, pub- lished her autobiography, took part in a post-Olympic tour with her teammates (including performing in eight shows despite a fractured rib) and hung out at the White House with the president. She remains open to giving it another shot in Tokyo in 2020. That’s for later. In January she’ll sit down and plot out her goals for the upcoming year. For the first time since she can remember, gymnastics won’t be on the list. Girls (To be determined from Tuesday’s results) TUESDAY Girls Basketball — Neah-Kah-Nie at Jewell, 2:30 p.m. Boys Basketball — Neah-Kah-Nie JV at Jewell, 4 p.m. WEDNESDAY Girls Basketball — Seaside at St. Hel- ens, 7:15 p.m.; Warrenton at St. Paul, 2 p.m. Boys Basketball — St. Helens at Sea- side, 7:15 p.m.; Warrenton at St. Paul, 4 p.m.; Elma at Ilwaco, 7 p.m. THURSDAY Girls Basketball — Alsea vs. Jewell (at Eddyville), Noon Boys Basketball — Jewell at Eddyville, 2 p.m. Wrestling — Knappa at Clatskanie Holi- day Meet, TBA Run of brilliance SCOREBOARD PREP SPORTS SCHEDULE 6:00: Redmond vs. Astoria Boys 2:30: Rainier vs. Hockinson 4:15: Molalla vs. Heritage 7:45: The Dalles vs. Astoria Wednesday’s Schedule Boys 3:15: Rainier vs. The Dalles 5:00: Molalla vs. Hockinson 8:30: Heritage vs. Astoria BASKETBALL Vince Dulcich Tournament at Astoria High School Tuesday’s Schedule Girls 11 a.m.: Rainier vs. Estacada 12:45: Sandy vs. North Marion 4:30: Hockinson vs. Philomath LISTINGS THE DAILY ASTORIAN T UESDAY E VENING A (2) (-) (-) (6) (-) (8) (9) (10) (12) (13) (-) (20) (-) (29) (30) (31) (32) (34) (35) (36) (38) (39) (43) (44) (45) (46) (47) (48) (49) (50) (51) (52) (53) (54) (56) (57) (58) (61) (63) (64) (65) (162) L KATU KOMO KING KOIN KIRO KGW KRCW KOPB KPTV KPDX KCPQ TBS KZJO ESPN ESPN2 NICK DISN FAM FMC LIFE ROOT FS1 SPIKE COM HIST A&E TLC DISC NGEO TNT AMC USA FOOD HGTV FX CNN FNC CNBC BRAV TCM SYFY RFD (2) (4) (5) (-) (7) (-) (3) (10) (12) (-) (13) (20) (22) (29) (30) (31) (32) (34) (35) (36) (38) (39) (43) (44) (45) (46) (47) (48) (49) (50) (51) (52) (53) (54) (56) (57) (58) (61) (63) (64) (65) (162) 6 PM SPORTS IN BRIEF NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Ten- nessee Titans quarterback Mar- cus Mariota will have surgery Wednesday for his broken right leg, and coach Mike Mularkey says the recovery process will take four to five months. Mularkey said Monday that Mariota will have a plate inserted over the break by Dr. Bob Ander- son in Charlotte, North Carolina. The Titans coach didn’t share any other details, but Mularkey has had Anderson repair his feet and says there’s no other doctor he trusts for this surgery. Mariota was hurt Saturday when sacked during a 38-17 loss to Jacksonville. Trainers placed an air cast on his leg before he was carted off the field. This is the second straight season Mar- iota has missed the season finale because of an injury. Seattle questions add up before NFC playoffs Associated Press RENTON, Wash. — The end of December is when the Seat- tle Seahawks are supposed to be on a surge, not limping toward the conclusion of the regular season with questions clouding whether the Seahawks are true contenders when the NFC play- offs arrive. 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