How did Simone Biles, Jordan Chiles do in floor exercise finals?

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Biles continued to make history during the final gymnastics event for the Paris Olympics.

PARIS, France — In the final event of her comeback campaign in Paris, Simone Biles stunned audiences with her stellar floor exercise. 

Biles added an 11th medal to her Olympic career in Monday's floor finals with another silver. Her epic medal performance came within hours of slipping off the apparatus in the balance beam event final. 

Brazil's Rebeca Andrade won gold in the floor exercise by .033.

With a uniform change and a fresh mindset, Biles clinched her fourth medal in Paris — just one less than she did eight years ago in Rio de Janeiro.

Her fellow teammate Jordan Chiles also performed a fan-favorite routine set to Beyonce tunes. She also earned a spot on the medal stand, alongside Biles and Andrade. 

Chiles won a bronze medal after a last-minute score change.

The 23-year-old — the last competitor of the day — initially received a 13.666 from judges. After some delay, her total was boosted by 0.1 when she filed an inquiry about her difficulty score, pushing Chiles past Romanians Ana Barbosu and Sabrina Maneca-Voinea and into third.

Biles ended nine days of competition in Paris by silencing the critics once and for all who have long derided her for pulling out of multiple events at the Tokyo Games three years ago.

There was plenty of history on the line for Biles in what could have been the last competition of her Olympic career. 

The 27-year-old Olympian is now tied with Czechoslovakia's Vera Caslavska for the second-most medals by a female gymnast in Olympic history, trailing only former Soviet Union great Larisa Latynina's 18.

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