Biles has history of dealing with injuries while continuing to train and compete
Biles posted top scores on floor and vault despite injury
Jordan Chiles and Sunisa Lee will also compete for US team
Simone Biles to compete in Olympic team finals with calf injury
US women's team heavily favored to win gold in team finals
Simone Biles, the most decorated American gymnast of all time, will compete in the Olympic team finals despite a calf injury. The injury occurred during warm-ups for floor exercise at qualifying but did not prevent Biles from posting the top scores on floor and vault.
Biles's teammates Jordan Chiles and Sunisa Lee will also compete in all four events during the finals. Chiles will lead off on vault, bars, and balance beam, while Lee will be second for the U.S. on uneven bars and first for floor exercise.
Biles has a history of dealing with injuries but continues to train and compete despite them. In 2018, she won six medals at the world championships while battling a kidney stone she nicknamed 'the Doha pearl.'
The U.S. women's team is heavily favored to win gold in the team finals after finishing runner-up to Russia in Tokyo three years ago.
Biles will compete on all four events during the finals: vault, uneven bars, balance beam, and floor exercise.
Simone Biles will compete on all four events at the Olympic team finals despite a calf injury.
Biles tweaked her left calf during warm-ups for floor exercise at qualifying. She returned to competition and posted the top scores on floor and vault, securing her place in the finals.
Jordan Chiles will compete on all four events and lead off on vault, bars, and balance beam.
Sunisa Lee will compete on all four events and go second behind Biles on floor exercise. She will be third for the U.S. team on uneven bars.
Simone Biles won six medals at the 2018 world championships while battling a kidney stone she nicknamed ‘the Doha pearl.’
Biles has a history of dealing with injuries and continues to train and compete despite them.
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Simone Biles aggravated a calf injury during her warm-up on floor exercise at the Olympic qualifying.
Simone Biles will compete on all four events at the Olympic team finals despite a calf injury.
Biles tweaked her left calf during warm-ups for floor exercise at qualifying. She returned to competition and posted the top scores on floor and vault, securing her place in the finals.
Simone Biles leads the US in Olympic team finals despite a calf injury.
Jade Carey suffered a fall on floor during qualifications, excluding her from floor finals to defend her title as gold medalist, but qualified for event finals in vault
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The US women’s team earned the top score in gymnastics qualifications
Simone Biles experienced calf pain and dealt with a flare up during the meet, but still qualified for all-around finals, vault, beam and floor finals
Fred Richard and Paul Juda qualified for all-around finals
Stephen Nedorosik tied for first on Pommel Horse and qualified for event finals with a score of 15.2
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The article contains a few instances of inflammatory rhetoric and appeals to authority. It uses sensationalist language such as 'excluded from making all-around finals' and 'wowed the crowd' to describe the athletes' performances. Additionally, it references ForbesVeterans as a separate entity, which could be seen as an appeal to authority.
. . .the U.S. men stayed in the running in fifth place behind China, Japan, Great Britain and Ukraine.
Brody Malone had multiple falls during the men's qualifications on Friday, so that excluded him from making all-around finals and high bar finals.
Simone Biles was seen by a trainer during floor warmups and was taped prior to competing floor. She still wowed the crowd on all four events and earned the top spot on vault, floor and all-around but was seen visibly limping after floor and vault.
Biles suffered from ‘the twisties’, a condition where gymnasts get lost in the air and have trouble orienting themselves, during the Tokyo Olympics.
Biles initially thought she would never compete again after the Tokyo Olympics but returned to elite gymnastics and won gold at the 2023 world championships.
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The author makes an appeal to authority with the quotes from Jordyn Wieber and Samantha Peszek about the mental aspect of gymnastics and how it can be 'all or nothing'. The author also uses inflammatory rhetoric when describing the reaction of some Americans towards Simone Biles' decision to withdraw from competition during the Tokyo Olympics. However, no explicit fallacies are found in direct statements made by Dan Wetzel.
][Jordyn Wieber] You get lost in the air[[], ]][Samantha Peszek] You can either do it or you can't.[[]
The Americans were stunned and covered their mouths as Biles pulled off a Yurchenko 1.5, a basic vault with a low degree of difficulty.
Some American fans wanted to see Biles 'give everything for the team'.
Biles was criticized for her decision to withdraw from competition during the Tokyo Olympics.
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The author expresses a clear bias towards Simone Biles, portraying her as a tough and resilient athlete who has faced criticism unfairly. The author also implies that those who questioned Biles' decision to withdraw from the Tokyo Olympics were misinformed or unsympathetic.
An Olympics she had focused five years on – including through the challenges and isolation of COVID – had turned into a nightmare.
Because Simone Biles is and always has been tough, resilient and team-oriented.
Biles has dubbed the Paris Games her ‘Redemption Tour.’
Biles would drop out of the all-around competition as well as two individual events. She returned on the final day of competition in Tokyo and won bronze in beam via a stripped down routine that she could handle.
She chose to step down and let her teammates take over. It’s a team after all.
She has already returned to elite gymnastics. She won gold at the 2023 world championships, pushed the sport to higher degrees of difficulty and proved to herself that she was still capable.
She not only qualified herself for Thursday’s all-around competition and three other individual events (floor, vault, beam). She also powered the U.S. to the top qualifying spot in Tuesday’s team event, where she plans on competing in all four disciplines in pursuit of gold.
That left-calf soreness may still impact how that looks in terms of medals. Gymnasts are particularly fine-tuned athletes and little things can become big things, especially over a competition schedule that will call on her to compete in five events over the next eight days.
The theory among some watching those Tokyo Games was that even an injured Simone Biles was better than some of her teammates at 100 percent.
Yet what she did at qualification in shaking off that physical injury could also play a role in redefining her to a public that was unfamiliar or suspicious of the twisties.
