Simone Biles will be a familiar face at the upcoming Olympics this year. Biles will be competing in Paris at the 2024 Olympic Games under Team USA for gymnastics. The gymnast previously competed in both the 2016 Rio games and the 2020 games in Tokyo.
She is the fourth American woman to compete in a third Olympic games and, at the age of 27, she is the oldest American gymnast to compete at the Olympics in 72 years, while also currently being tied with Shannon Miller for the most Olympic medals earned by a US gymnast. The Olympian’s return to the team comes after she needed to withdraw from most of the 2020 competitions due to a case of the “twisties,” which is a temporary loss of air awareness while performing twisting elements. “The brain no longer communicates with the body, they change the move, lose their place,” US women’s coach Landi explained in part one of Biles’ recent Netflix documentary, titled Simone Biles: Rising .
“Most of the time it’s unrelated to gymnastics.” “I knew from that one moment,” Biles confessed, reflecting on her Tokyo performance. “To me it felt silent.
I felt like I was in jail in my own brain and body.” Since then, Biles has trained and earned her way back to the mat. This year, Biles will be joined by reigning Olympic champion Sunisa Lee, 2020 floor exercise champion gold medalist Jade Carey, 2020 Olympic silver medalist Jordan Chiles and 16-year-old newcomer Hezly Rivera.
On July 17, in an interview with Today , Bile.