Simone Biles

Simone Biles is an American artistic gymnast whose power, difficulty, and consistency have made her one of the sport’s most decorated competitors.

Biles (vault): A Yurchenko-style double pike vault named for Simone Biles, performed with a roundoff entry and two backward flips. This vault is among her signature skills and became the first of its kind landed by a woman in competition.
2020 Summer Olympics: The Tokyo Olympic Games, postponed to 2021, where Biles withdrew from several events while experiencing the twisties. Her decision brought unprecedented attention to mental health and safety in elite gymnastics.
Aimee Boorman: An American gymnastics coach who coached Simone Biles through her first Olympic cycle. Boorman guided Biles from junior competition to her 2016 Olympic success.
Code of Points (artistic gymnastics): The rules used to evaluate difficulty and execution in artistic gymnastics. Its difficulty values determine how Biles's named skills contribute to routine scores.
Biles II (floor exercise): A floor-exercise skill consisting of a double layout with a half twist, named for Simone Biles. Its exceptional difficulty illustrates the high-value tumbling she brought to women's floor exercise.
Twisties: A gymnastics phenomenon in which an athlete loses spatial awareness during twisting skills in the air. Biles publicly described experiencing the twisties in Tokyo and withdrew to avoid serious injury.
Laurent Landi: A French gymnastics coach who has coached Simone Biles and other elite gymnasts. Landi joined Biles's coaching team ahead of her return to international competition.
Artistic gymnastics: A gymnastics discipline in which athletes perform routines on apparatus such as vault, uneven bars, balance beam, and floor. Biles competes across the four women's artistic gymnastics apparatus.
Biles (balance beam): A balance-beam dismount consisting of a double-twisting double back salto, named for Simone Biles. The dismount is one of several skills named after her in the Code of Points.
USA Gymnastics: The national governing body for gymnastics in the United States. Biles's career has unfolded within the organization responsible for selecting and supporting U.S. teams.

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