Paul Pogba has admitted there is still a "question mark" over his Manchester United future but has promised to "give everything" while he remains at Old Trafford.

The Frenchman has been linked with moves to Real Madrid and Juventus after saying he wants "a new challenge" earlier this summer.

Sources have told ESPN FC that the 26-year-old will not be sold despite the European transfer window remaining open until Sept. 2.

But after starring for United during the 4-0 win over Chelsea on Sunday, Pogba left the door open for a move away.

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"I am always good whenever I play football," the midfielder told French reporters in the mixed zone. "It is what I love -- it is my job. I give the maximum each time I am on a green pitch.

"Obviously there have been things said, but only time will tell. This question mark remains.

"However, as I said, I am here in Manchester. I enjoy playing with my teammates and I always want to win every game. I always give it everything."

Focusing on Sunday's match, Pogba said that he was delighted with United's performance against rivals Chelsea and was effusive in his praise of new teammate Harry Maguire.

"I call him 'The Beast'," Pogba said. "Honestly, as you saw, he was really impressive. He is a leader. He fit right in with us in training. We talked about controlling the defence well and he has a good understanding with Victor [Lindelof]. It was a very good match to start with from the whole team.

"In the first half, we were dominated in terms of chances and possession, but we reacted in the second. Our changes enabled us to take over. We were better in possession and in terms of chances. We were lucky to have the lead through the penalty in the first half, but after a bad start, we finished the match well. We are satisfied with our performance."

Pogba was pivotal in setting up Manchester United's third and fourth goals against Chelsea -- laying on assists for Marcus Rashford and Daniel James -- and says that the squad is developing a good understanding within Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's system.

"That [position change] has been there for a while now -- since before this season," he said. "In terms of organisation, it is a bit more like how I play with the French national team. It does not bother me where I play, whether it is higher or lower, we adapt and enjoy. The team too, we were much better coming out of the back and that is something to keep going with in the coming games.

"Rashy and I understand each other well. We try to do a maximum number of passes like that. I am starting understand his calls for the ball too and that enables me to find him like I did."

Borussia Dortmund wonderkid Youssoufa Moukoko scored six goals on his under-19 debut on Sunday.

After a record 50 goals in 28 matches for Dortmund's U17s last season, the 14-year-old was promoted to Borussia's U19 team this summer, and his debut performance against Wuppertaler SV was enough to suggest that he could continue to break records.

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Moukoko, who also plays for the Germany U16 side, had completed a hat trick within 17 minutes of the first half and ended the match with six goals as Dortmund won 9-2.

"Hats off," a statement on Wuppertaler's official website read after the young player's stunning debut.

"We were warned! But what can you do? The lad's just so good."

United States youngster Gio Reyna, 16, was also on target for reigning U19 champions Dortmund, scoring just one minute into his competitive debut for BVB.

Moukoko could make his Bundesliga debut in the 2021-2022 season, once he has turned 17.

Real Salt Lake has terminated the contract of manager Mike Petke, and named assistant Freddy Juarez as head coach on an interim basis for the rest of the season, the club announced on Sunday evening.

Petke was set to return from a two-week suspension on Monday. ESPN FC confirmed a report from The Athletic that the suspension was for directing multiple anti-gay slurs at officials following RSL's 1-0 Leagues Cup defeat against UANL Tigres on July 24.

Following an investigation by MLS, Petke was suspended for two weeks, fined $25,000, suspended for three MLS league matches, three Leagues Cup matches, and required to take anger management classes, as well as sensitivity and diversity training. He was also required to send written apologies to both MLS and the referees in question. It marked the third time in Petke's RSL tenure that he had been suspended.

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Despite the heavy punishment, RSL owner Dell Loy Hansen told fans following a Utah Royals game last Wednesday that he was considering firing Petke. On Sunday, the organization did just that.

"At Real Salt Lake, we have the privilege to represent our great community and fans here locally and on a national and global basis," the organization said in a statement to the media.

"We hold all of our coaches, players, executives and staff to the highest standards of professionalism. As an organization, it is vital that everyone, particularly our leadership, reflects and embodies our core values and the values of our community, treating all people with respect, civility and professionalism.

"Moreover, throughout our 15-year history, we have championed diversity, acceptance and inclusion throughout our organization, our stadiums and our community. This is a responsibility that we take very seriously."

The statement added, "After further deliberations and a series of constructive discussions internally and with various members of our community, we have concluded, pursuant to his employment agreement, to immediately terminate Mike Petke's employment."

Petke was hired as RSL's manager just weeks into the 2017 season after the club opted to fire then-manager Jeff Cassar. Petke had been managing the Utah Monarchs, RSL's entry into the second tier USL Championship. Petke's time with RSL, including playoffs, ends with a record of 39-36-16.

Prior to his stints in Utah, Petke was manager of the New York Red Bulls, leading the club to the 2013 Supporters Shield. But a front office shakeup saw Petke relieved of his duties prior to the 2015 regular season.

Petke spent the entirety of his playing career in MLS, playing for the likes of the MetroStars (the forerunner of the Red Bulls), D.C. United, and the Colorado Rapids before finishing his career with the Red Bulls in 2010. He was part of DCU's MLS Cup-winning side in 2004. Petke made two appearances with the U.S. men's national team.

Five minutes was all it took for Bhuvneshwar Kumar to flip the game in India's favour.

Thirty-fifth over. Nicholas Pooran, the form batsman, made it look like West Indies had the game in their pocket. They needed 92 in 12 overs, perfectly doable.

The ball was on the shorter side, probably a bit slower than Pooran expected, and it was pulled to leg, where Virat Kohli was positioned at deep midwicket. Gone. Two balls later came the catch of the match. Before fans or even the Indian players realised what had happened, Bhuvneshwar, in his follow through, had plucked the ball out of thin air after a Roston Chase leading edge, flying diagonally to his left and landing on his arms.

The score: 179 for 6, after the over had started with 178 for 4.

"My catch, I just took it!" he said with a laugh at the press conference. It was too fast for him to even process what was happening. He'd taken a similar catch in the second T20I in Lauderhill, but this one was different.

"I wasn't thinking much about the result. We knew if we could get one or two wickets then we would be back in the game. When I came to bowl, all I was thinking was I have to bowl economically and I feel that wickets are the by-product of bowling tight."

Bhuvneshwar's four wickets might have helped India reach the finish line, but there were two other performances that stood out for the team: the innings from Kohli and Shreyas Iyer.

Kohli's century (120 in 125 balls) was his first in 11 innings. The knock also took him past Sourav Ganguly's tally of 11,363 runs, making him the eighth highest run-getter in ODIs.

"From Virat's expression you could see that he badly wanted to score a 100, not because he was out of form, but because he was getting out in the 70s and 80s and he always looking to score big runs," Bhuvneshwar said. "The wicket wasn't easy and it wasn't easy to score runs as the ball got older. We know how good he is a player."

Iyer's performance was overshadowed by Kohli's, but he was as impressive, with a sensible 71 from 68 balls. For Bhuvneshwar, "I think it was a crucial partnership with Virat. He was hitting singles and he was hitting boundaries as well. I think he played with maturity."

Winnipeg Hawks 192 for 8 (Anwar 90, Lynn 37, Duminy 33, Russell 4-29) tied with Vancouver Knights 192 for 6 (Malik 64, Russell 46*, Emrit 2-37)
Super Over Winnipeg 10 beat Vancouver 9 with two balls to spare

In a pulsating final decided in the Super Over, Winnipeg Hawks held their nerve to out-battle Vancouver Knights and, especially, Andre Russell, who could well have been on the park for West Indies at Port-of-Spain, if not for the knee injury he was managing post-surgery. Yet, as the final got tense, he batted like a man possessed, came out to bowl the Super Over, and everything asked of him and more, except win the game for his side.

Here's how it panned out: 54 needed off 19 balls in the Knights chase. Shoaib Malik has been dismissed for a fine 64. It is the final, no second chances. In walks Russell at No. 7, the Knights' last hope. Earlier in the evening, he had taken 4 for 29 to restrict Winnipeg to 192. He has been held back, even below Canada's Saad Bin Zafar, in the batting order. Now, it's all or nothing. So what does he do? Smash the ball like only he can - three fours, five sixes, all in 19 balls, to bring it down to three runs off the final ball.

Russell is on strike and but this time, he can only mistime an attempted slog towards long-on. The bowler can't collect the throw as they scramble for a second. They now try to sneak in a third, but the cover fielder backing up quickly hurls the ball to the wicketkeeper. Zafar is run out, Russell's heroics aren't enough, and the game is forced into a Super Over. The Hawks are still in it. Shaiman Anwar, whose 90 allowed them to make 192 and keep them alive in the first place, can still be a winner.

Now for the one-over shootout.

Vancouver, predictably, send in Russell and South Africa's Rassie van der Dussen. Kaleem Sana, an unheralded 25-year-old left-arm medium pacer from Rawalpindi, with an experience of five List-A games and four first-class fixtures, has the unenviable task of bowling.

He's been clubbed for 50 off four wicketless overs earlier in the evening. Now, the pressure is on him and he sees the first ball of the shootout vanish for six. Russell is in his zone again, or he had never left it. Sana follows it up with two length balls to cramp the batsmen, before getting Russell caught at long-on. He's redeemed himself and Winnipeg need just 10 to win.

You'd think Russell wouldn't feature anymore in the game - creaking knees, managing his injury and all that. But no! He's bowling the Super Over. Having got the side to the doorstep of victory, only to see them fluff it, he's now got the chance to deliver the knockout blow.

He starts well, restricting the first two balls to singles, before he slips in a full toss which the batsman misses. All good for now, except, wicketkeeper Tobias Visee misses too. Four byes, game on. Chris Lynn is on strike. Four to get, three balls left, and he swings, gets a thick outside edge over short third man, and it races away for four and Winnipeg win. The Global T20 Canada couldn't have asked for a more fitting finale.

Earlier, after being asked to bat, the Hawks rode on UAE batsman Anwar's 45-ball 90, with eight fours and seven sixes, to get to a strong total at CAA Centre in Brampton. Anwar started with a 73-run stand with Lynn in the Powerplay before Russell got rid of the Australian for a 21-ball 37. But Anwar batted on, putting up another good stand of 81 with JP Duminy (33 in 27 balls) for the third wicket before falling ten short of his boundary when he miscued an attempted biggie in the 16th over. Russell's four wickets were complemented by USA pacer Ali Khan's 2 for 30 and local boy Rayyan Pathan's 2 for 24.

The Knights' reply started poorly, with Rayad Emrit reducing them to 2 for 2 by the second over, but van der Dussen (23 in 22) and Australian Daniel Sams (21 in 9) gave them stability before Malik, Zafar (27 in 26) and Russell took them to the doorstep of victory. The fell just short in the end, but only just.

Amid his usual thoughts and theories about Australia's next assignment at Lord's, Justin Langer had a fairly simple one for England's high-profile reinforcement: Hello Jofra Archer, welcome to the meat grinder of Test cricket.

There is something relentless about the way Australia have planned their Ashes blueprint, having brought with them the deepest battery of fast bowlers ever to set foot on these shores, committed to batting time in the middle, and bowling to lines and plans that emphasise cutting down the scoring and boundary rates as much as searching for wickets.

Enormous hype has been attached to the entry of Archer into the series for England, perhaps rightly so given his outsized talents and easy speed off an ambling run up, allied to a line from close to the stumps. But the challenge for Archer, as Langer emphasised, would be to back up that pace and quality in spell after spell, having not played a single first-class match this year.

"It's easy to be good at the front end and that's what I said after Edgbaston, we're not here to win the Edgbaston Test, we're here to win the Ashes" Justin Langer

Archer's only red-ball game since last summer was for Sussex's second XI, in which he claimed six cheap wickets and showcased the skills that have made him a near automatic selection for England since he qualified - he took eight wickets against Middlesex last year in his only first-class fixture at Lord's to date. Archer's pace will provide a point of difference against Steven Smith's formidable reserves of concentration and co-ordination, but as Langer pointed out, it will also be asking a lot of someone new to Test cricket to dominate right away.

"I'm really curious about how Archer is going to go. He's played one red-ball game in 11 months. He's a very skilled bowler and a great athlete. But Test cricket is very different to white-ball cricket," Langer said. "Like we've talked about a long time, we've got to keep wearing him down, and get him back into his second or third and fourth spells. Just curious how he's going to go, like you are with all fast bowlers.

"The strategy for England the way they play, is we have to be very disciplined. I think going back to 2004 in India, we hadn't beaten for years, Gilly [Adam Gilchrist] was the captain, our strategy was so disciplined. You remember that series, and that was the difference in the end. Kasper [Michael Kasprowicz], [Jason] Gillespie and [Glenn} McGrath and they were so disciplined. I just think we haven't won here for 20 years, and that's a good strategy you can learn from the past. That strategy is going to be important as well.

"We've got to be as good at the back end as we are at the front. It's easy to be good at the front end and that's what I said after Edgbaston, we're not here to win the Edgbaston Test, we're here to win the Ashes. We have got to make sure we manage it and plan it well so we are as good in the fifth Test as we are in the second Test."

Smith, David Warner and captain Tim Paine joined the bowlers for an optional net session on Sunday, as all attempted to groove their games. Langer said that while Smith and Warner continued to face a considerable amount of unwanted attention, the key to their success in the remainder of the series was to turn up for Lord's with as much hunger and focus as at Edgbaston.

"He slept the last few days, which was good," Langer said of Smith. "Dave Warner didn't have a big first Test but he had a huge World Cup and IPL, so he is getting his energy back as well. So when those two are clear and have energy, it's obviously a big advantage for us.

"They're still copping a bit. I thought it's what we expected since we have been here. The boys are handling it well. Davey's humour at Edgbaston was nice. He's handling it as well as anyone. Steve Smith came in and showed with his batting how he's handling it. I keep saying this: There's nothing you can do about that, just keep smiling and keep concentrating on what you've got to concentrate on and it is what it is.

"We talk about humility as one of our values. Like I keep going back, we did not come here to win the Edgbaston Test, we've not come here to get a hundred at Lord's. We've come here to win the Ashes, to be the leading run-scorer in the Ashes, and if you do that it helps us win the Ashes; to be the leading wicket-taker in the whole Ashes and not just have a good Test. Everyone's got to contribute. That's why we are deliberately recognising that, 'ok we won the first Test match that's great, but now we've got to win the second Test'. So all our efforts will go into that."

Langer did not venture to Worcester for Australia's tour match, instead spending time in London and regathering his many thoughts. He noted that Cameron Bancroft had dropped a couple of catches in the game, and said he had planned to spend time with the junior opening batsman to help him re-set his goals after having made it back from the Newlands scandal exile into the Test team.

"He dropped a couple of catches, he is probably just trying a bit hard at the moment," Langer said. "It was one of the challenges for James Pattinson actually, he set himself to play back in the Australian team, he set himself to play Ashes cricket. He's ticked both of them off and now he's going to have to re-set his goals, and a lot of young people don't do that well.

"They go 'I've done it now' and they forget to re-set. I've spoken to Patto about it and I'll say the same thing to Cameron Bancroft. He's come back in and now he's trying too hard, he's achieved that goal, he thought it might have taken a lot longer, He just has to re-set his goals, clear his mind and just relax a bit, he'll be fine."

Some guidance could also be taken from Langer's own experience as a young batsman at Lord's playing the first of his many seasons as an overseas player in 1998. In his first county match at the home of cricket, Langer fell cheaply in the first innings as he came to grips with the Lord's slope. "The very first time I played here, Somerset versus Middlesex, I think Andy Caddick [Kevin Shine] got me out with one that definitely came back in to me (off the slope), he was bowling from the Media Centre End. I'd heard about it, but until you actually get out there and feel it, by the end of it you realise there was a slope. But it's that little wake-up call and you adapt to it. Hopefully our guys will do that."

How quickly did Langer adapt? In the second innings, he scored an unbeaten 233, duly described by the late Peter Roebuck: "Langer's footwork was precise, his fitness impressive, his judgment unwavering and his placements superb during 533 minutes at the crease. He was a man in harmony with his surroundings. It was a most compelling contribution."

The Blast has enjoyed a considerable uplift from England's World Cup-winning campaign with the competition poised to reach 1 million spectators for the first time (David Hopps writes).

Hopes that the 1 million mark could be breached have been dashed before, but with nearly 900,000 sales achieved heading into last weekend's games, it appears that only a continuation of recent bad weather could stop the target being reached.

With the ECB's emphasis increasingly turning to the launch of The Hundred in 2020, there were fears that the Blast could suffer as a result - and until England won the World Cup for the first time in mid-July the tournament had been matching, but not exceeding, comparable sales in 2018. All that has changed, leaving total ground sales now 14% ahead of the same time last year.

London remains the main engine of Blast ticket sales with Surrey and Middlesex responsible for more than 20% of purchases. But the attraction of the Blast is growing in Hove, where Sussex, who went into the weekend games top of South Group, are packing them in with comparable success to two other non-Test grounds, Somerset and Essex.

Lancashire, who head the table in the North, are also enjoying their most successful Blast season ever as they have become the best-attended county outside London.

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Colin Ackermann could be forgiven a slightly bemused expression as he claimed the most successful global analysis in Twenty20 history.

Ackermann, appointed Leicestershire's Blast captain this season, exploited rare turn in the pitch at Grace Road to return 7 for 18 from his four overs of offspin, figures made all the more astounding for the fact he is primarily a batsman.

Searching for an explanation for his success, he offered the thought that he had worked hard on his bowling over the English winter, which he spent playing for Warriors in his native South Africa, and had taken full advantage of the advice of former Test offspinner Simon Harmer, a team-mate at Warriors.

That improvement was signalled when he picked up a maiden five-wicket return in first-class cricket in Leicestershire's first Championship match of this season, a win against Sussex at Hove.

But it's fair to say that Warriors did not recognise they might be on to a good thing. Search his record in all competitions between October and March for the Warriors between October 2018 and March 2019 and there is not a wicket in sight.

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Birmingham Bears swooped quickly to sign Chris Green to replace the injured Ashton Agar, with Paul Farbrace telling Sky he had been working night and day to find a last-minute replacement (Matt Roller writes).

Green is a traditionalist's worst nightmare of a cricketer. At 25, he is yet to make his first-class debut, though counts Lahore Qalandars, Guyana Amazon Warriors, and Toronto Nationals among his clubs.

And he took the freelance lifestyle to the next level last week. After losing the Global T20 eliminator to Winnipeg Hawks on Thursday afternoon in controversial circumstances - the game was called off early due to bad light, and Green's side lost on DLS - he got a lift to the airport to get on the 11.19pm flight from Toronto to Heathrow.

That meant he arrived at 11.05am in the UK, and drove up to Birmingham just in time to meet his new team-mates and have a quick warm-up before Friday night's game against Nottinghamshire, which started around 18 hours after his previous game - on a different continent, remember - had finished.

After seven games for Birmingham, Green will fly straight to the Caribbean Premier League to make his Guyana return. In a blow for fans of nominative determination, his carbon footprint is racking up.

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On the subject of Birmingham, it was unthinkable last year that Ed Pollock - then a world-record holder for his pinch-hitting exploits - would be kept out of the team due to anything other than injury, but he found himself dropped four games into the Blast after a slow start to the competition.

While his side was capitulating against Ackermann, Pollock was sat at home after hitting a 39-ball 100 for Warwickshire's 2nd XI against Durham, and would have been forgiven for wondering why he had been omitted.

His situation demonstrates the difficulties of the role he was given - to score at a 200 strike rate from the word go. It is one that comes with a high floor and a low ceiling, and one which requires a team which will stick with you during the rough times. But as long as cricketing orthodoxy - which comes down hard on those who get out playing attacking shots - prevails ahead of new-age T20 thinking, the Pollocks of the world will be up against it.

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Sussex are expected to be without Delray Rawlins for four of their remaining games after the explosive middle-order batsman was picked in Bermuda's squad for the ICC Americas T20 World Cup Qualifier.

While the club is yet to comment publicly, the Bermudian Royal Gazette reported that after much wrangling and negotiation, the national team have secured Rawlins' service for the tournament.

Rawlins' opportunities with the bat have been limited this season - largely due to Sussex's imposing top order facing so many balls between them - but he is striking at 160.97, and hit a vital 35 not out off 17 balls to see off Gloucestershire at Bristol: he may yet be a big miss.

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Any disappointment Kent officials may have felt after their mauling by Somerset's Tom Banton on Saturday evening will fade rapidly should their county qualify for Finals Day on September 21 (Paul Edwards writes).

The likelihood of that happening has been increased by the return to fitness of skipper Sam Billings, who dislocated his shoulder 80 minutes into his first appearance for his team in April but played a full part in Saturday's game, albeit he will not be keeping wicket this season.

Many of Kent's performances have already mocked the predictions made about the county in March but the addition of Billings' clean hitting to a batting line-up which already includes Mohammad Nabi and Alex Blake increases Kent's chances of making the last eight and even securing a home semi-final.

"Sam has come back quicker than we thought he would and he's worked very hard to get himself in the frame," the Kent coach, Matt Walker, said. "We're bringing back a very fine international T20 cricketer but also one of the best one-day captains in the country. It is almost like signing an overseas player.

"We've coped very well to win six games without him but his return gives a real lift to the dressing room."

Rassie van der Dussen has qualified for a Cricket South Africa contract for the 2019-20 season, having cleared the revised threshold during South Africa's World Cup 2019 campaign.

In an otherwise lacklustre campaign, van der Dussen was among South Africa's bright spots, scoring 311 runs at an average of 62.20 and a strike rate of 90.40. He will become the 17th player on a national contract, taking the spot left vacant following Duanne Olivier's decision to take the Kolpak route.

In the women's team, wicketkeeper Sinalo Jafta is one point away from qualifying for a full 12-month contract. She could earn that point if she is selected for the women's upcoming tour of India in September and plays in at least one match.

"Rassie's promotion is thoroughly justified on the back of a brilliant debut season at international level and has also served as an inspiration to all aspiring cricketers at domestic level of what can be achieved by showing top-class form on a consistent basis," CSA chief Thabang Moroe said.

Spin camp in India

South Africa will also be sending several players, including those who have played for the national team and those who are viewed as potential candidates, to a spin camp that will take place in Bengaluru from August 17 to 23. Both South Africa A and the national team will be touring India in the final quarter of the year. But Moroe indicated that the move to familiarise themselves with subcontinent conditions was also keeping in mind the long term, with the 2023 World Cup scheduled in India.

The group of players includes Aiden Markram, Temba Bavuma and Dane Piedt, who will be accompanied by a number of coaches and technical staff. Former national coach and current South Africa A coach Russell Domingo will head the support staff, and he'll have former players Ashwell Prince and Paul Adams as batting and spin consultants with him.

"We have identified Aiden Markram, Zubayr Hamza and Temba Bavuma as key Proteas batsmen to benefit from this project and we have also included some of our potential stars of the future such as Janneman Malan and Sinethemba Qeshile, who have already both played for the Proteas, as well as Matthew Breetzke," Moroe said.

"The batting group is completed by two of our most consistent runs scorers in franchise cricket in Pieter Malan and Edward Moore. The bowling group is headed by the experience of Dane Piedt and includes highly promising talents, among them being Bjorn Fortuin, Tsepo Ndwandwa and Senuran Muthusamy.

"It is a fact that most international cricket is played on the subcontinent these days and we have to look ahead not only to the tours on the immediate horizon but the next edition of the World Cup in India in 2023."

Batsmen for spin camp: Aiden Markram, Janneman Malan, Zubayr Hamza, Matthew Breetzke, Sinethemba Qeshile, Edward Moore, Temba Bavuma, Pieter Malan.

Bowlers for spin camp: Dane Piedt, Bjorn Fortuin, Tsepo Ndwandwa, Senuran Muthusamy, Thomas Kaber, Dyllan Mathews, George Linde.

Support staff for spin camp: Russell Domingo (South Africa A coach), Ashwell Prince (batting consultant), Paul Adams (spin consultant), S Hadebe (physio), Vincent Barnes (high performance manager).

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Simone Biles, who never fails to rise to the occasion, won her sixth all-around title at the U.S. Gymnastics Championships on Sunday, plus did a historic clean triple-double in floor exercise.

Biles, 22, did the triple-double in the preliminaries Friday in floor exercise, too, the first time a woman had ever completed the complex move of two flips with three twists in competition. But she put her hands down on the landing then, which frustrated her. She didn't do that Sunday, and was so happy with the move that she retweeted video of it during the competition.

"I didn't want to be the last person to see it," Biles said of checking her phone for the video, "so I went online to see what it looked like, so that me and [coach Laurent Landi] could watch it. But I was very pleased that I actually landed it this time in competition."

Biles won the all-around title easily; her 118.500 was almost five full points ahead of second-place finisher Sunisa Lee at 113.550. Grace McCallum was third at 111.850. Biles has won 20 consecutive all-around titles dating back six years, including at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics.

Sunday, Biles also won the titles in the vault (30.850), balance beam (29.650) and, of course, floor exercise (29.450), which she especially has elevated to must-see TV whenever she's performing. And even in the event she calls her least favorite, uneven bars, she finished third (28.800).

Lee, a 16-year-old from Minnesota, won the bars with a score of 29.800, and was the only woman other than Biles to walk away with a gold medal from these championships. She acknowledged she watches all of Biles' routines with a sense of awe.

"She's so good, and I don't understand it," Lee said with a smile. "She's like, yeah, crazy good. She does stuff I never thought people could do."

Biles began her Sunday evening on beam, where on Friday she became the first to do a double-double dismount. She simplified her beam dismount a bit Sunday, but still nailed the routine and was in a great mood from there. That was a contrast to Friday, when she did floor exercise first and -- despite the triple-double -- wasn't happy the rest of the night because she thought her floor routine wasn't good enough.

Sunday, the positive vibes from the beam carried her through, as did the Sprint Center crowd that cheered wildly at everything she did.

"I feel like you carry that momentum through the entire meet," Biles said of the opening rotation. "The other day, I was doing angry gymnastics, and I was just really upset. Then today, it was just like back to normal and happy."

Biles went from the floor exercise to vault. Then her final event was bars, and after finishing that routine, Biles smiled broadly and waved her arms.

"I was a lot happier today," she said, "because I feel like I haven't been as confident on bars this year as I was last year. To finally do a good routine like I can do it, I was very happy. And it was the last event, so I was like, 'Thank God we're done.'"

Done for now, yes, but there's another huge meet coming up Oct. 4-13 in Stuttgart, Germany: the world championships. The U.S. women are the defending champions; their gold in last year's world meet earned them their berth in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Biles won the all-around title in the 2018 world meet, along with golds on the floor exercise and vault, plus silver in the bars and bronze on the beam.

The top 10 finishers here at the U.S. Gymnastics Championships are named to the national team; they and select other invitees will take part in a training camp Sept. 5-8. Then the actual selection camp for the world meet will take place Sept. 25-27, and a team of five will be picked, plus one alternate. It will be very competitive to make that group of five.

We already know, though, that Biles will lead the United States' effort. She had moments here at nationals of great emotion, both joy and sadness. The latter came when she was talking to media before the meet started about the lingering effects of the Larry Nassar sexual-abuse scandal. She was brought to tears relating her frustration and disappointment with USA Gymnastics, which as an organization is going through bankruptcy court and trying to rebuild its reputation.

But once this competition started, Biles was laser-focused on doing her best. She said she puts other things out of her mind and just thinks about the gymnastics.

"I feel like you just kind of shut it out," Biles said. "Once I'm here, I'm here to do a job."

She did it extremely well, yet again. And with the Tokyo Olympics about a year away, Biles said she's on a very strong trajectory.

"Right now, I feel like it's a good peak," she said. "But we don't want to change too much going into next year. You kind of just want to stay consistent with your routines. If any upgrades come, you'll see."