Simone Biles set to perform on all four apparatuses despite calf injury after new documents signed presented…
On Sunday, Simone Biles crawled alongside the runway and hopped on one foot while warming up during the qualifying round.
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PARIS — Simone Biles is officially slated to perform on all four apparatuses in Tuesday’s team final, despite dealing with a minor calf injury during the qualifying round. USA Gymnastics announced the team’s lineups for the competition Monday evening, and Biles is poised to have a major role in the Americans’ attempt to win a gold medal.
Biles’s coach, Cecile Landi, said after the opening day of women’s competition that during warm-ups before floor Biles felt pain in her calf, the reemergence of an issue from a couple weeks ago. Landi said Biles never considered withdrawing. She finished the meet and soared to the top of the all-around standings. Biles had one of her best performances, finishing nearly two points ahead of her top challenger, Brazil’s Rebeca Andrade, and leading the U.S. team to an overall score that was more than five points ahead of the second-place Italy.
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Scores do not carry over to the team final, but with their difficult routines and Biles’s dominance, the U.S. women have room for error.
But Biles will be in all four lineups, which also means she has an opportunity to debut a new element on bars that will be named for her if she performs it successfully. Biles did not advance to the bars final, so the team competition and the all-around final are her only remaining chances to unveil that skill — a front circling element with a 1½ pirouette — at these Games.
Jade Carey, who said she recently has felt sick, is only in the vault lineup for the team competition. She’s the reigning Olympic gold medalist on floor but struggled in the qualifying round, bailing out of her final tumbling pass. Jordan Chiles is in the lineup on every apparatus. Chiles narrowly missed out on a chance to compete in the all-around final; she finished fourth overall, but because Biles and Sunisa Lee scored better, she could not advance. Countries are limited to two athletes per final.
In the team final, Lee will compete on bars, beam and floor. Hezly Rivera, 16, will not compete at all. Rivera was shaky on beam in the qualifying round, and that was the apparatus on which she had the best chance of competing. It appears the U.S. staff leaned heavily on the results from the qualifying round when determining lineups.
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