Simone Biles Wins 1st Gymnastics Competition In Return Since Tokyo Olympics: Watch

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Simone Biles is backmost to win, baby! For the first clip successful 2 years, the seven-time Olympic medalist and 2016 Olympic idiosyncratic all-around champion, took the level astatine an elite gymnastics conscionable and her instrumentality was spectacular.

On Saturday August 5, Simone took to the mat for the 2023 U.S. Classic, held this twelvemonth successful Hoffman Estates, Illinois. She won the contention aft coming successful archetypal spot successful 3 of her 4 events (she came successful 3rd connected uneven bars). The triumph means she volition vie successful the nationalist championships!

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“It felt truly good, particularly aft everything that’s happened implicit the past year,” Simone told CNBC after her victory. “So, everyone that was cheering, made posters and each that successful the crowd, it conscionable made my bosom melt that they inactive judge successful maine and I got backmost retired present and I did what I was grooming truthful I’m precise blessed with the result.”

Hopefully this is conscionable the beginning! As fans volition remember,  Simone was connected way to vie astatine the Tokyo Olympics 2021 and could person precise good go the archetypal pistillate since 1968 to triumph back-to-back titles successful the all-around. Unfortunately, she was forced to withdraw from the contention owed to intelligence wellness struggles.

Since then, a batch has changed for the superstar Olympian. For 1 thing, she got joined to her longtime BF Jonathan Owens earlier this twelvemonth and the brace person looked blissfully blessed ever since. However, thing that hasn’t changed is Simone’s signature eye-on-the-prize committedness to her sport.

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On the anterior Thursday to the competition, Simone posted an Instagram communicative showing disconnected her past signifier astatine her section gym successful Texas, with the caption, “Feelin each the emotions.” We tin recognize that; not lone is this her instrumentality to the sport, but the archetypal clip she’s reuniting with galore of her US Olympic squad mates.

Simone volition look disconnected against immoderate of her 2020 Olympic teammates, including Suni Lee, who ended up winning golden successful the idiosyncratic all-around contention successful Tokyo, arsenic good arsenic Jade Carey and Jordan Chiles, who she grabbed drinks with the time earlier the contention (non-alcoholic, of course!)

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