The U.S. women’s gymnastics team has been calling this year’s Olympic Games its “redemption tour.
With the exception of a single newcomer, the sixteen-year-old Hezly Rivera, every gymnast who qualified for Paris was a member of the team that competed, three years ago, in Tokyo
In Paris, Biles was the last of her teammates to vault, so a sense of trepidation hung over the first twenty minutes of the broadcast.
The team’s success in Paris should definitively quash the sense of doubt that has hovered about U.S.
A new Netflix documentary series, “Simone Biles Rising,” reiterates the punishing sense of pressure that athletes felt in the wake of the abuse.
Even before Tokyo, Biles’s prospects for Paris were uncertain. Few Olympic gymnasts compete into their twenties—although, as my colleague Louisa Thomas has written, that trend may be changing.