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There are a few well recognised signs that prove you are a sporting icon.
A statue in your home town, maybe a fancy title, or perhaps a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
But in the 21st century, another is getting your own official Twitter emoji.
American four-time Olympic gymnastics champion Simone Biles has become the first female athlete to have the honour bestowed upon her.
And of course, it’s a goat.
The leotard and medal-wearing goat (similar to the superstar’s personal emblem “Goldie the goat”) will appear when a Twitter user posts the hashtags #SimoneBiles or simply #Simone, throughout the Tokyo Olympic Games, which officially begin on Friday.
Biles’ symbolic goat was originally created as a response to “the haters”, she told US magazine Marie Claire earlier this year.
She said critics often accused her of being over-confident, with one joking that she would put a goat (a reference to the commonly-used acronym GOAT…
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