PARIS -- American gymnast Simone Biles didn't get the golden send-off she hoped.

Biles earned silver in the floor exercise finals Monday -- her 11th Olympic medal -- after a routine that included a couple of costly steps out of bounds.

Brazil's Rebeca Andrade became the first gymnast to beat Biles in a floor final in a major international competition, posting a score of 14.166 that finished just ahead of Biles at 14.133.

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Jordan Chiles, a longtime friend of Biles, earned the bronze.

Biles, 27, considered the greatest in the history of the sport, wasn't at her usual best during a routine set to music from pop icons Taylor Swift and Beyonce.

Still, she boosted her medal haul in Paris to four, gold in the team, all-around and vault finals and a silver that came as a surprise in her signature event.

Biles' medal total (including seven gold, two silver, two bronze) ties Czechoslovakia's Vera Caslavska for the second most by a female gymnast in Olympic history. She missed a chance to add a fifth Paris medal earlier Monday when she fell during the beam final, finishing fifth.

Though she can make it look easy at times, it is not. She thudded to the floor during her warmup and had the balky left calf she tweaked in qualifying rewrapped before she competed.

Her tumbling passes weren't perfect -- she stepped out of bounds twice -- but her difficulty is so far above everyone else's that it usually doesn't matter.

Not this time. She received a 7.833 execution score that included 0.6 in deductions for stepping out of bounds, allowing Andrade to win her second Olympic gold.

Still, wearing a red-white-and-blue leotard featuring thousands of crystals, Biles ended nine days of competition in Paris by silencing the critics once and for all who have derided her for pulling out of multiple events at the Tokyo Games three years ago.

She won four medals in all, just one less than she did eight years ago in Rio de Janeiro.

Chiles -- 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.