2020 Tokyo Olympics: Simone Biles will participate in balance beam final

4-time Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles will return for Tuesday’s stability beam remaining, the final gymnastics competitors of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The 24-year-old American missed the earlier 4 finals on the Video games for mental-health causes.

USA Gymnastics made the announcement that Biles may have one remaining shot at successful a person gold medal in Tokyo early on Monday morning.

The stability beam competitors might be Biles’ first since final Tuesday, when she withdrew from the workforce remaining competitors after struggling at her first vault try and posting a shockingly-low rating (13.766). Biles attributed her struggles to “the twisties” — a relatively common yips-like issue for gymnastics.

With out Biles, the U.S. nonetheless received silver within the workforce remaining. However following that workforce competitors, Biles withdrew from the all-around, vault, uneven bars and floor-exercise finals to protect her psychological and bodily well being. The U.S. medaled in all 4 of these occasions, successful gold within the all-around, bronze within the uneven bars, silver within the vault and gold within the ground.

Biles has in depth historical past with the stability beam and all of it it portends nicely for Staff USA. She’s received three gold medals within the occasion within the World Championships and added a bronze within the 2016 Rio Olympics.

The ladies’s balance-beam remaining will happen Tuesday at 4 a.m. Japanese. Biles and Suni Lee will symbolize the U.S.