Biles leads US to 7th straight team title

Led by Simone Biles, the U.S. women won a record seventh consecutive team title at the gymnastics world championships on Wednesday night.

The American team of Biles, Shilese Jones, Skye Blakely and Leanne Wong combined for a total of 167.729 points to edge Brazil and France.

The U.S. women have won gold in the team event at every world championship that included a team competition since 2011. Their victory in Antwerp broke a tie with the Chinese men for the longest streak of consecutive team titles and made Biles the most decorated female gymnast in history.

Biles now has 26 world championship medals, 20 of them gold, to go with her seven Olympic medals, including the 2016 Olympic title. Her 33 combined medals at the sport’s two biggest events are one more than what Larisa Latynina of the Soviet

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WR KUPP RETURNS TO PRACTICE >> Los Angeles Rams receiver Cooper Kupp is returning to practice this week after missing the first four games of the season with a hamstring injury.

The Super Bowl 56 MVP entered the 21-day window for activation from injured

reserve.

The 30-year-old Kupp strained his hamstring early in training camp and aggravated it in late August.

FAVRE WILL TESTIFY IN WELFARE SCANDAL CASE >> Retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre will answer questions under oath about the misspending of federal welfare money in Mississippi, where public money intended to help some of the nation’s poorest people was used to fund pet projects he and other well-connected people supported.

A notice of deposition filed Monday in Hinds County Circuit Court by attorneys for Mississippi’s Department of Human Services shows Favre will give sworn testimony on Oct. 26 at a hotel in Hattiesburg.

Golf THOMPSON TO COMPETE AGAINST MEN AT PGA TOUR’S STOP IN LAS VEGAS >>

LGPA Tour trailblazer Lexi Thompson will compete against men at the PGA Tour’s upcoming event in Las Vegas.

The Shriners Children’s Open announced that Thompson received an unrestricted exemption into its tournament that begins Oct. 12 at TPC Summerlin. She will compete with 131 men for a $8.4 million purse.

Thompson will become the seventh woman to compete in a PGA Tour event.

GEERT VANDEN WIJNGAERT — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The United States’ Simone Biles, right, holds her gold medal as she celebrates with injured teammate Joscelyn Roberson, left, after the women’s team final at the Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Antwerp, Belgium, on Wednesday.