Simone Biles Is Done Being Judged
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Simone Biles, dressed in a red, white and blue leotard, about to land hands-first on a balance beam. The words “Tokyo 2020” are printed on the beam.
Simone Biles performing on the balance beam in Tokyo in
Simone Biles Is Done Being Judged
Three years after she dropped out of the Tokyo Games with a mental block, she is back at the Olympics with a defiant attitude — and a sense of where she is in the air.
With a toe-tapping Beyoncé song blasting in the arena, Simone Biles leaped up to the balance beam and wobbled, leaning over and circling her arms like windmills as if she were trying not to fall off a cliff.
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A few more times in her routine, she faltered on the four-inch-wide beam. And when she finished her routine at last month’s U.S. Olympic gymnastics trials, it was clear what she thought about her effort.
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