During the team event at the Tokyo Olympics, while performing on the vault, Biles got lost in the air – performing only 1 and ½ twists instead of 2 and ½ – and botched her landing. “It’s just like your body, your brain opens up, you have no idea where you are,” Biles ...
Biles' post Tokyo whirlwind Biles' life since theTokyo 2020Olympic Games in 2021 has been non-stop: a vacation to Cabo, MTV’s Video Music Awards, the Met Gala, and the start of a 35-city U.S. tour. “Goodness, I feel like since coming back from Tokyo, there's been highs and lo...
In Tokyo, four-time Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles could become the first woman to land a Yurchenko double pike vault in Olympic competition. Two-time World Surf League champion John John Florence and two-time X Games gold medalist Mariah Duran will lead their sports ...
With just over 100 days to go until the Tokyo Olympic Games later this year, four-time Olympic gymnastics champion Simone Biles spoke to media Wednesday at the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee's virtual media summit. Below is the complete transcript from that press conference in which she...
Tokyo Games -- now postponed to 2021 because of thecoronavirus pandemic-- would have meant more than just gold medals. It also would have been a reminder that the world's greatest gymnast came from a system that failed her and so many others -- and of the work Biles is still doing to...
Simone Biles heads to Tokyo and weighs in on Team USA's medal hopesThe gymnast spoke with “GMA” about heading to her second Summer Games. Simone Biles is an unstoppable force in the world of gymnastics. The 24-year-oldOlympicchampion, one of the greatest female gymnasts of all time, is...
but it was how she responded to the dire situation in which she found herself in Tokyo and then managed her recovery that revealed Biles’ courage and strength of character. In Tokyo, she faced the maw of the media with dignity and poise, explaining that the reason she withdrew...
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It was July 28, 2021, and while America was waking up to the shocking news that Simone Biles was withdrawing from the gymnastics all-around competition at the Tokyo Olympics, Chiles could only think about how devastated her teammate must be. “She’s not a quitter,” Chiles told CNN in...
Just tweet #SimoneBiles or #Simone, and “a goat in a leotard performing a split leap with a gold medalaround its neck shows up,” the Tokyo Olympics website says. Ad Feedback So the world was stunned when the five-time Olympic medalistwithdrew from the team gymnastics competition Tuesday...