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Olympics 2024: Simone Biles is done being judged

By Juliet Macur
New York Times·
16 mins to read
Olympics 2024: Simone Biles is done being judged
Simone Biles competes during the women's artistic gymnastics qualification round of the 2024 Summer Olympics. Photo / Chang W. Lee, The New York Times

Three years after she dropped out of the Tokyo Games with a mental block, she is back at the Olympics with a defiant attitude - and a sense of where she is in the air.

With a toe-tapping Beyoncé song blasting in the arena, Simone Biles leaped up to the

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