An Injured Simone Biles Pulls Out of Team USA at Tokyo Olympics
/ Anne Enke
Doug Mills/The New York Times
USA Gymnastics team powerhouse Simone Biles has pulled out of the team competition at the Tokyo Olympics. Biles bailed out of her Yurchenko vault with 2 1/2 twists, downsizing the difficulty to 1 1/2 twists and then stumbling out of the landing Tuesday evening.
Biles left the competition floor with a team trainer, while coach Cecile Landi, gathered the team. Biles returned to the floor, rejoining her teammates, hugging them before watching them perform their routines from the sideline.
Team USA will compete for their their consecutive Olympics gold medal without Biles. Follow all the Olympic competition from the New York Times.
Simone Biles holds a combined total of 32 Olympic and World Championship medals, tied with Shannon Miller as the most decorated gymnast of all time. Biles and Miller are also tied for the most Olympic medals won by an American gymnast.
These feats don’t happen by accident. “As a child, my mother would take us to her office to write down our short-term and long-term goals on a piece of paper. It is a practice that I maintain, because that list reminds me why I do things.”
There are certain pleasures that come with writing/editing AOC. Checking Net-a-Porter today, an airborne Simone Biles greeted me in ‘A New High’ for the new Porter Edit February 7, 2022 cover story. AOC LOVES Simone Biles in every aspect of her wonderful self. Blessed with unusually strong intuition, I then said to myself “photographed by Kennedi Carter.” Correct, Anne.
Last summer Kennedi Carter photographed Amanda Gorman for Porter Edit, leading me to Google if Simone Biles and Amanda Gorman know each other, as it seems they would get on fabulously together. They do.
