It’s three gold medals and counting for Simone Biles in Paris. 

The revolutionary American gymnast stood from the highest perch on the podium at Bercy Arena once again Saturday after winning the vault event by way of her signature Yurchenko double pike, one of five moves that carry her namesake, to march on toward possibly tying the all-time Olympic gold medal record for a female American gymnast. 

In order to do so, Biles will have to sweep her final two events of the 2024 Paris Games on Monday to reach nine gold medals — a feat that is well within reach of the 4-foot-8 firecracker who has returned to the Olympic stage with vengeance. 

“A lot of repetition in the gym, trying to find and work on that landing and it showed tonight,” Biles said in an interview on Peacock. 

Turning in an average score of 15.300, the 27-year-old from Spring, Texas beat out Brazil’s Rebeca Andrade (14.966, silver) and fellow American Jade Carey (14.466, bronze).

It’s the fourth consecutive Olympics that a U.S. woman has medaled in the event, a streak that dates back to the 2012 Games in London. 

“This means everything to me,” said Carey, who also avenged her Tokyo Games, where she was heavily favored in the event and ultimately missed the podium. “I think it’s the perfect ending for myself. This is really all I wanted to do. I wanted to come here and redeem myself on vault.”

After also championing the team final and earning her second all-around Olympic title earlier in the week, Biles’ 10 medals is tied for the third most by a female gymnast. 

The theme of USA gymnastics’ tear through these games is redemption, with Biles leading the charge. 

Biles said she felt relieved after landing her first vault in Paris on July 28 – and it only made her lighter and somehow even more aerodynamic.

Since then, Biles and her sparkly goat necklace have dulled the memory of her withdrawal from the team final of the 2021 Tokyo Games, when she tapped out midway through due to a bout with the “twisties,” which caused her to lose a sense of where she was in the air. 

After pulling out of most of her other remaining events in Tokyo, Biles took a two-year hiatus from competitive gymnastics. 

But here was Biles, sporting a hot red bedazzled leotard, hunting down another gold in a way only she knows how. 

The Yurchenko double pike, also known as the Biles II, features a roundoff onto the takeoff board and a back handspring onto the table.

Biles follows it with a double somersault in the piked position, a dangerous vault that requires significant power to complete the two flips.

Few even attempt this because of the increased likelihood of falling on the head or neck. 

It’s widely considered the hardest vault in the women’s code with a 6.4 difficulty value.

That is what gave Biles a significant scoring advantage over Andrade, who has kept competitive with her American counterpart during these games so far. 

Biles became just the second woman to win the vault twice on Saturday, joining Czechoslovakia’s Vera Casalavska. 

So it’s three down and two go for Biles, who will return to the mat for the final time in the Paris Games on Monday for the beam and floor exercise finals. 

A gold-medal finish in both events would tie Biles with Larisa Latynina, who set the record in 1964. 

Count that.