Simone Biles Qualifies for Her Third Straight Olympics in Spectacular Style
Simone Biles will be heading to her third Olympic Games after sealing a massive all-around win at the U.S. Olympic Gymnastics Trials in Minneapolis on Sunday.
The four-time gold medalist—who finished the trials with a two-day total of 117.225, over five points ahead of her closest competitors—will be joined in Paris by Suni Lee, Jordan Chiles, Jade Carey, and Hezly Rivera. At 27, Biles will become the oldest female American gymnast to take part in the Olympics in 72 years, according to NBC News.
Biles’ participation at the games in France—set to open later this month—comes after she withdrew from several events at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 after suffering with “the twisties,” a disorienting phenomenon in which gymnasts temporarily lose spatial awareness in the air.