{"id":33739,"date":"2016-08-16T23:59:43","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T03:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=33739"},"modified":"2016-08-17T01:56:28","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T05:56:28","slug":"the-great-simones-and-gabby-douglas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/the-great-simones-and-gabby-douglas\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Simones and Gabby Douglas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year, the name “Simone” was number 820 on the list of popular names<\/a> for baby girls in the U.S. I expect that in 2016 and 2017, that name will be several hundred places higher, thanks to the awe-inspiring Olympian Simones.<\/p>\n

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Gymnast Simone Biles won her fourth gold medal at the Rio Olympics today. Only three other female gymnasts have won four golds in a single Olympics — the last time it happened was 32 years ago<\/a>! And you’d have to have a heart of stone if you didn’t get emotional last week when swimmer Simone Manuel became the first African-American woman to win an individual swimming medal at any Olympic Games<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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