'To have one more opportunity to compete meant the world.'
secured her second bronze medal in the balance beam; she also finished third at the Rio Olympic Games.
China’s Guan Chenchen and Tang Xijing earned the gold and silver medals with scores of 14.633 and 14.233, respectively. Biles’ U.S. teammate"It's not easy giving up a dream of five years and not getting to do it. It was really, really hard," Biles said after the competition to. "I've never been in the stands, so I just wasn't used to it, so to have one more opportunity to compete meant the world.
Before being cleared to compete, she had daily check-ins with her team and two sessions with a sports psychologist,. Three days before the event final, she told her coach Cecile Landi that she was ready to come back—despite receiving news that her aunt had “unexpectedly passed.”
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