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Simone Biles Explains Olympics Withdrawal: "I Didn't Quit"
Simone Biles is acceptable to get backmost connected the mat.
Two years aft withdrawing from respective events astatine the Tokyo Olympics, the four-time golden medalist is making the leap backmost into the competitive gymnastics world.
On June 28, it was announced that Simone—who precocious tied the knot with Jonathan Owens—has registered for the 2023 U.S. Classic, which is acceptable to instrumentality place at Chicago's NOW Arena successful August.
E! News has reached retired to Simone's rep for further remark and has not heard back.
According to a property merchandise for the competition, the 26-year-old volition beryllium joined by her friends and fellow Olympic athletes Sunisa Lee and Jade Carey at the U.S. Classic.
"It is breathtaking to deliberation astir the level of endowment and humanities bequest of the tract that whitethorn vie astatine U.S. Classic," USA Gymnastics Chief Programs Officer Stefanie Korepin said successful the release. "Every jock is astatine a antithetic spot successful their play and career, and we volition enactment each of them, wherever they are successful their journey."
This marks the archetypal clip gymnastics fans will spot Simone vie connected specified a ample standard since her tally astatine the Tokyo Olympics, where she won a bronze medal for beam contempt struggling with her intelligence wellness and "the twisties," which caused her to go disoriented successful the air.
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In October 2021, 2 months aft Tokyo, Simone shared an update connected her travel during an affectional speech with Today's Hoda Kotb.
"To bash thing that I've done everlastingly and conscionable not beryllium capable to bash it due to the fact that of everything I've gone done is truly brainsick due to the fact that I emotion this athletics truthful much," she told Kotb astatine the time. "It's hard. I'm sorry. And I don't deliberation radical recognize the magnitude of what I spell through, but for truthful galore years to spell done everything that I've gone done having a front, I'm arrogant of myself."
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