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Simone Biles says Tokyo 2020 will be her last Olympics

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Simone Biles wins all-around at trials, makes Olympics again​

Simone Biles is heading back to the Olympics. So are some of her friends. The gymnastics superstar earned a third trip to her sport's biggest stage by cruising to victory at the U.S. Olympic trials on Sunday night, posting a two-day all-around total of 117.225 to clinch the lone automatic spot on the five-woman team. Three years removed from the Tokyo Olympics -- where she pulled out of multiple finals to prioritize her safety and becoming a touchstone on the importance of mental health in the process -- Biles returns to the Games looking perhaps as good as ever at 27. Biles will be a prohibitive favorite to bookend the Olympic gold she won in 2016, though there is plenty to work on before women's qualifying July 28. She backpedaled after landing her Yurchenko double pike vault, a testament to both the vault's difficulty and the immense power she generates during a skill few men gymnasts try and even fewer land as cleanly. Next stop, Paris, where the Americans try to return to the top of the podium after finishing second to Russia three years ago.

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2024 Olympic gymnastics trials: Biles leads Team USA​

It all came down to this. On Sunday night, the U.S. women's gymnastics Olympic team was announced, after a heartbreaking week that included injuries to front-runners Sky Blakely. Kayla DiCello and Shilese Jones. Simone Biles, Suni Lee, Jordan Chiles, Jade Carey and Hezly Rivera were named to the team, with Leanne Wong and Joscelyn Roberson the traveling alternates.

The crowd was electric in the final rotation -- and the gymnasts matched the energy. Simone Biles started off with her signature triple-double mount on floor, closed with a double layout and even with a step out of bounds earned the highest floor score of the night. She looked relieved -- and a little exhausted -- at the end. She and Suni Lee shared a hug after Lee finished her night on vault with a Yurchenko double full. Tiana Sumanasekera and Joscelyn Roberson competed one after another on floor, and each drew the crowd in to their performances. The pair have been incredibly consistent throughout the entire competition, and both have a case for a spot as alternate or team member. Jordan Chiles solidified her own probable spot on the team with her floor routine, which had the crowd on its feet and her in tears at the end.

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Simone Biles submits new uneven bars element for 2024 Olympics
The new skill is a clear hip circle forward with 1.5 turns to handstand, a variation of an element named for Canadian Wilhelm Weiler that Biles has performed for much of her career, the International Gymnastics Federation said.
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Only Nellie Kim, a retired Soviet and Belarusian five-time Olympic gold medalist, has more skills named after her with seven. Biles is the fourth woman aiming to have a new element named after her at the Games, which for the women begin Sunday with qualifications.
 

Simone Biles handles pain, leads U.S. in Olympic qualifying​

Simone Biles briefly left the floor with what she said was discomfort in her left leg but continued her quest to return atop the Olympic podium Sunday, posting an all-around score that was more than three points ahead of U.S. teammate Suni Lee through two subdivisions of qualifying. Biles, 27, dazzled during her opening beam routine then briefly left the floor with USA team doctor Marcia Faustin. Biles returned a short time later and spent several minutes sitting and watching her teammates. U.S. gymnastics coach Cecile Landi said the issue popped up a couple of weeks ago and described it as minor. Landi said there was no discussion of pulling Biles from the event. Biles received a 14.600 on floor, the highest of the day so far and assuring her a spot in the event finals next week.

She scored 15.800 -- by far the highest in the world this year -- and followed it up landing her Cheng vault with no major problems, though she was noticeably limping as she made her way back to her seat. In the Americans' first event, the balance beam, Biles drilled a difficult acrobatic series, her score of 14.733 easily the best among the four Americans. The final event, uneven bars, was Biles' lowest score at 14.433, but her total of 59.566 was easily ahead of the field. The only adjustment Biles made was deciding to skip attempting a unique skill on uneven bars that she had submitted to the International Gymnastics Federation on Friday.

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Simone Biles wins Olympic all-around title; bronze for Suni Lee​

Simone Biles is back on top of the gymnastics world. But it wasn't easy, nor was it even a given for much of the Olympic all-around competition on Thursday night at Bercy Arena. By the end, she had earned her second gold medal in the event -- becoming just the third woman to earn the title multiple times and the first to do it in nonconsecutive Games. But it took everything -- including several eponymous and superhuman skills -- she had. The 27-year-old American has become known for her large margins of victory throughout her career, but Thursday was one of her closest calls during an international meet. After a challenging rotation on uneven bars, which saw her legs nearly hit the floor after she misjudged a transition, Biles had fallen to the unfamiliar position of third place in the standings at the halfway mark.

After closing the competition on floor and earning a massive 15.066 behind her high-flying tumbling that was loaded with difficulty, she had secured a 59.131 final score -- 1.199 better than silver medalist Rebeca Andrade of Brazil. Biles' teammate Sunisa Lee, the 2020 Olympic all-around champion, claimed the bronze medal. She had been looking to become the first woman in 56 years to defend the title, but, after dealing with multiple career-jeopardizing kidney diseases since Tokyo, she seemed more than pleased to simply return to the podium in any spot. This was Biles' sixth career Olympic gold medal and ninth medal overall. She is the first female gymnast to win nine career medals at the Games since Nadia Comaneci in 1980. Biles is far from done this week. She is slated to compete in the event finals for vault, beam and floor and could realistically claim medals on all three.

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Simone Biles earns 7th gold after dominating vault final​

Simone Biles is getting kind of old for this. Just maybe not too old to keep going. Maybe. Minutes after the American gymnastics star won the seventh Olympic gold of her career on Saturday in a vault final that left little doubt that even at 27 she remains in a class by herself, she played coy when asked if the event marked the final time she would ever explode off the springboard in competition. Biles has 10 career medals, tied for the third most by a female gymnast in Olympic history. Two more before she heads back to Texas and she would find herself all alone in second behind Larisa Latynina, who piled up 18 while competing for the Soviet Union in the 1950s and '60s.

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Simone Biles finishes Olympics with silver in floor exercise​

American gymnast Simone Biles didn't get the golden send-off she sought. Biles earned silver in the floor exercise finals on Monday -- her fourth medal in Paris and 11th Olympic medal overall -- 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. Jordan Chiles, a longtime friend and teammate of Biles, earned the bronze. Biles, 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. She's going home with gold medals from the team, all-around and vault finals and a silver that came as a surprise in her signature event. Biles' overall 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. "Never say never," Biles said after claiming her second Olympic vault title earlier in the Games. "Next Olympics are at home. So you just never know. I am getting really old." She will be 31 then, an age when most gymnasts have long since retired. Yet Biles is redefining that adage in real time, and considering the gap that still exists between herself and nearly everyone else in the sport -- save for Andrade, who pushed Biles as hard as she's been pushed in nearly a decade -- anything is possible.

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The irrefutable legacy of Simone Biles, in gymnastics and beyond​

The silence speaks volumes. Gymnastics meets at these Olympics have been loud, rowdy affairs. But there are these moments, just before Simone Biles mounts a balance beam or takes off down a vault runway or hits her opening pose on floor, when Bercy Arena falls utterly silent. Fans put their phones down and lift their eyes up and take in her performances the same way they might experience a work of art in the Louvre: with awe and respect and often without comprehension. It is fitting that the last, and lasting, image of a remarkable week and a half of competition for the 27-year-old Texan will be Biles in the final pose of her iconic floor routine, its choreography an ode to her past, her evolution and her dominance. When she rose, the arena erupted in cheers of "USA!" as she walked off the floor, her arms held high overhead. Biles leaves Paris with 11 Olympic medals, four of them earned at these Games. For some, she needed these medals, because they are the means by which they will weigh her legacy. Others will base their measure of her greatness on immeasurables such as the impact she will leave on her sport, inside the competition arena and beyond. Everyone has their own calculation for quantifying the greatest of all time. But after these Olympics, this year, this shortened quadrennium, there is no debate. No matter the metric, Biles is the greatest gymnast of all time. Biles has also earned more national titles and more world championship medals than any man or woman in history, and has a combined total of 41 world and Olympic medals. Biles did not need to return to the Olympics to prove anything to anyone but herself. But in doing so, she cemented the statistical measure of her legacy. While pushing her competitors to be better, Biles has consistently asked the same of herself. She has won every all-around meet she has competed in for more than a decade, and for much of that time, her greatest competitor was herself. The difficulty of her routines is so high she often wins by margins that allow for her to count a fall -- but sets the standard for execution scores, too.

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