While Simone Biles dazzled during an internal meet at a U.S. national team camp last month, things will be different under the lights Saturday.
Olympic champion Simone Biles jokes with the media as she leaves the arena after practicing for the Core Hydration Classic, Aug. 4, 2023, in Hoffman Estates.Long before Tokyo. Long before
The details of her comeback after an eventful two weeks at the Tokyo Games in which she removed herself from multiple events while she battled a mental block have been kept heavily under wraps. The announcement she was competing Saturday came not from one of her social media channels or a broadcast network but rather USA Gymnastics.
Still, the energy surrounding her return is palpable. A few hundred fans paid $25 a pop — a rarity for what is typically a modestly attended meet — to watch Biles practice. The average ticket price on the secondary market for Saturday night’s evening session featuring Biles and 2020 Olympic champion Suni Lee was going upward of $400 as of Friday afternoon, mostly because whatever seats were available when Biles officially entered the meet vanished within hours.
And those actions seem to serve notice she is intent on returning to her spot atop the sport, albeit with some tweaks to accommodate the new code of points and to make her as comfortable as possible, both mentally and physically.While her coach Cecile Landi stressed Biles can do “everything” she’s done before, the Amanar vault that requires her to twist 2 1/2 times in midair — the same vault that went sideways in Tokyo, forcing her to leave the competition — is gone.
The landings will be hard. The scores will count. Ratings figure to spike as fans and the merely curious tune in to see how Biles reacts to being under the spotlight she so deftly commanded for so long until that strange night at the Ariake Gymnastics Center two summers ago.
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