Simone Biles, best ever? Sure looked it: Best of Olympics Day 6

• Also: Dominant Fehaid Al Deehani, Egypt and Tunisia women's triumphs – Best of Day 5 The National’s sports team is helping you keep up to date with what is happening in Rio while most of us in the UAE were sleeping. Here is today’s Daily 5. 1 Simone to watch It was a remarkable, unbelievable-sounding statistic bandied about before the Olympics: American gymnast Simone Biles arrived to Rio a three-time individual all-around world champion and owner of 10 world titles – and no Olympic medals. It was, however, of course just an eye-catching byproduct of the vagaries of timing and the sport. When the Olympics were last held in London, Biles was just 15, slightly ahead of her peak. When they come back around in Tokyo, she’ll be 23, likely slightly past her prime. But if Rio is indeed her one Olympic shot, she is squeezing every last iota of spectacular out of it. • In pictures: Simone Biles owns gymnastics all-around at Rio Olympics It would be a gross understatement to say Biles dominated the competition. She dominated it, obliterated it, lorded over it. She was excellent above and beyond where gymnastics has ever gone before, at least by margin of victory. She won by 2.100 points, which if you’re unfamiliar with gymnastics scoring doesn’t sound so impressive, consider: It is greater than the last nine gold-winning margins, combined. It is comfortably the widest individual all-around victory ever at an Olympics. The Texan will go for three more golds, and a record-total five, in the apparatus competitions. She was comfortably the best in each of the vault, balance beam and floor on Thursday night. If it remains to be seen whether or not she will cement her status as the greatest ever, her all-around transcendence at the very least put it in play. 2 Fiji in paradise The tiny Pacific island nation of Fiji came to Rio having never won an Olympic medal. And, yet, they were favourites for one. The consecutive winners of the last two World Sevens Series were, with the reintroduction of rugby in its seven-a-side format to the Olympics, suddenly a powerhouse in an event. They blitzed Great Britain 43-7 in the gold medal match, affirming their greatness as a sevens outfit. “We wanted to show people the way we play, the Fijian way,” said coach Ben Ryan. “We were lucky enough to pull it off in such spectacular fashion.” 3 Other highlights from Day 6 • Another Olympics, another set of medals for Michael Phelps to bring home. The American swimmer added his fourth gold of the Rio Games with a victory over compatriot and rival Ryan Lochte in the 200m individual medley. Another American, Simone Manuel, became the first African-American woman to win swimming gold in the women's 100m freestyle showpiece and yet another, Ryan Murphy, took gold in the 200m backstroke. It's been a good Olympics for American swimmers. Read the full roundup . • Great Britain’s Katherine Grainger became a medallist at five different Olympic Games, with silver in the women’s double sculls. Her country’s most decorated female athlete, the 40-year-old rower added to a medal haul that includes three more silvers and gold from the London 2012 Games. • Sexual abuse survivor Kayla Harrison successfully defended her women’s judo title in the 78kg category. Chinese table tennis whiz Ma Long continued his country’s domination of the sport, smashing rival countryman and 2012 gold medallist Zhang Jike four sets to none. And Germany, who started the day with no gold medals, now suddenly has three, after a double in the men’s and women’s quad sculls in rowing and Barbara Englender’s victory in the women’s 50m rifle three positions event. • The United States leads in the medal count with 38 (16 gold), followed by China with 30 (11 gold) and Japan with 22 (seven gold). Australia (15 overall), South Korea (11 overall) and Hungary (seven overall) each boast five golds. Russia, with 19 medals total and Great Britain, with 16, have also found great success. We're keeping track of all the gold medal winners . 4 Tweet of the day Leonidas’ record had stood strong for over 2,000 years. But records were, after all, made to be broken. Eventually. 5 Video of the day Rafael Nadal looks in peak form as he seeks a second Olympic gold.

Simone Biles, best ever? Sure looked it: Best of Olympics Day 6

The National's sports team is helping you keep up to date all that his happening at the 2016 Rio Olympics. Here's what you need to know from Day 6.