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Olympics-Gymnastics-Biles return set to bring gymnastics to dramatic end
Tokyo 2020 Olympics - Gymnastics - Artistic - Gymnastics Training - Ariake Gymnastics Centre, Tokyo, Japan - August 3, 2021. Simone Biles of the United States during training. REUTERS/Mike Blake
August 3, 2021
By Steve Keating
TOKYO (Reuters) – With Simone Biles returning to action the Olympic gymnastics competition is assured of a dramatic conclusion on Tuesday as the American bids to end what has been a tumultuous Tokyo Games on a golden high.
Not seen in competition since last Tuesday when she abruptly dropped out of the team event after one vault, citing mental health issues, Biles will get one last shot at Tokyo gold when she competes in the balance beam final.
American gymnastics star Simone Biles to return for balance beam finals >Coach Laurent Landi embraces Simone Biles, after she exited the team final with apparent injury, at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Tuesday, July 27, 2021, in Tokyo. The 24-year-old reigning Olympic gymnastics champion Biles huddled with a trainer after landing her vault. She then exited the competition floor with the team doctor. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) Gregory Bull >Simone Biles of the United States, center, celebrates after teammate Mykayla Skinner won the silver medal in the vault during the artistic gymnastics women s apparatus final at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Sunday, Aug. 1, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) Gregory Bull
It wasn t a copout! I was getting so lost in the air : Simone Biles explains her reason for pulling out of five Olympic events and says bronze on beam means more than all four golds - as she reveals medal win came two days after her aunt unexpectedly died
The 24-year-old won bronze in the balance beam final in Tokyo on Tuesday
Biles appearance in the event marked her first return to competition since she made the controversial decision to pull out of the team final, as well as the all-around, uneven bars, vault, and floor exercise
In a post-event press conference, Biles hit out at critics who have accused her of quitting and abandoning her team, insisting that people have no idea what she and her fellow gymnasts are going through
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