TikTok star goes viral after recreating Simone Biles' silver medal-winning Olympics floor routine in hilarious video
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A TikToker has gone viral for re-creating Simone Biles' iconic floor routine at the Paris Olympic games that earned her a silver medal.
Content creator Brian Esperon, a dancer and choreographer with 3.2million followers, did a 're-creation' of Biles' routine that she pulled out for the individual floor exercise final on Monday.
Esperon was able to complete most of the dance parts of the routine - substituting cartwheels in for some of the bigger flips.
At one point, he even animated himself flipping in midair by filming himself in a tucked position and rotating it around the screen.
The video has pulled in over two million views and has received over 289,000 likes on the platform.
A Tik Toker has gone viral for his re-creation of Simone Biles' floor routine from the Olympics
Biles finished second in the floor exercise final behind Brazilian Rebeca Andrade
This isn't the first floor exercise routine that Esperon has re-created - having also done Suni Lee's routine from the team all-around final.
Lee saw that video and commented 'slayyyyyyy!!!!' to which Esperon replied, 'AHHHH LOVE YOU SUNI!!!!'
Lee did not make it to the individual floor exercise final, but Biles did - finishing in second place despite a 0.600 point deduction.
That's thanks in part to her 6.9 difficulty score, making her routine the hardest at these Olympics in the floor.
Brazil's Rebeca Andrade eeked out Biles by 0.033 points to win the gold medal while Biles' American teammate, Jordan Chiles, finished third.
That was controversial after the judges corrected their score following an American team protest.
As a result, Chiles launched up from fifth place to third place, earning her a bronze medal.
But she lept over two Romanian gymnasts - Ana Barbosu and Sabrina Voinea - who both logged scores of 13.700.
The Romanians have since sent a letter of protest to the International Gymnastics Federation demanding an explanation for Voinea's score.
