Biles finished at 59.566, well clear of reigning Olympic champion and teammate Sunisa Lee as Team USA has top three scores in subdivision.
Simone Biles of the United States competes in the floor exercise during the women’s artistic gymnastics qualification round of the 2024 Summer Olympics, at Bercy Arena in Paris on Sunday, July 28, 2024. Simone Biles sitting off to the side at the Olympics. USA Gymnastics team doctor Marcia Faustin by her side. A look of concern on both their faces.
The woman who has been saying over and over and over this isn’t 2021 went out and proved it on Sunday inside star-studded Bercy Arena, shaking off what U.S. coach Cecile Landi described as a minor calf issue to post the top score in the all-around and put whatever lingering ghosts there may be from Tokyo in the rearview mirror.
Instead, Landi and her husband Laurent — who have long served as Biles’ personal coach in Texas — encouraged her to take a breath and keep going as Laurent applied heavy doses of tape to her leg. Yet that appeared to be far from Biles’ mind when he finished up her bars set. Instead, there was a mixture of relief and the urge to soak in the moment following her dismount at what could be the final competition of her unparalleled career.
The reality is the Americans — especially with Russia out of the mix due to the war in Ukraine — don’t need to rely on her as much as they have in previous Games.
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