Simone Biles Returning To Gymnastics For 1st Competition Since 2020 Olympics

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USA Gymnastics announced connected Wednesday (June 28) that Simone Biles, the seven-time Olympic medalist, and 2016 Olympic champion, volition capable retired a trio of talents astatine the U.S. Classic. “The past 2 Olympic all-around golden medalists, Simone Biles (2016) and Sunisa Lee (2020) are joined by 2020 Olympic level champion Jade Carey connected a database that includes 11 Olympic and World Championships medalists entered successful the U.S. Classic, acceptable for August 4-5 astatine NOW Arena successful suburban Chicago,” the enactment announced connected its website.

“It is breathtaking to deliberation astir the level of endowment and humanities bequest of the tract that whitethorn vie astatine U.S. Classic,” USA Gymnastics Chief Programs Officer Stefanie Korepin said successful the property release. “Every jock is astatine a antithetic spot successful their play and career, and we volition enactment each of them, wherever they are successful their journey.”

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This marks Biles’ instrumentality to the athletics aft taking 2 years disconnected pursuing her crook astatine the Olympics successful Japan. The 26-year-old famously withdrew from the contention to absorption connected her intelligence wellness – and aft she came down with a information called “the twisties,” which would person enactment her astatine hazard of superior wounded if she competed. During her stay, she cheered arsenic Team USA took location the Silver. As for Simone, she near Japan with a bronze medal for the equilibrium beam, tying her with Shannon Miller for the astir Olympic medals won by an American pistillate gymnast. Simone hinted that she whitethorn vie astatine the 2024 Olympics successful Paris but hasn’t confirmed that — yet.

Since Tokyo, she has focused connected her beingness extracurricular of the gym. She joined Jonathan Owens in 2022 and became “one of the astir vocal advocates for athletes uncovering abstraction to support their intelligence wellness aft her basal successful Japan enactment the contented beforehand and center,” per the Associated Press.

The U.S. Classic serves arsenic a launching pad for USA Gymnastics, acting arsenic “a warm-up of sorts for the nationalist championships, this twelvemonth scheduled for precocious August successful San Jose,” per AP.

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