Simone Biles will not defend her Olympic floor exercise title, her sports federation said. Her final opportunity to compete again at the Tokyo Olympics is the balance beam on Tuesday.
TOKYO—Simone Biles will not defend her Olympic floor exercise title, her sports federation said on Sunday.
Biles has said she is suffering from a disorienting condition that prevents her from competing safely, or effectively. , and then pulled out of the individual all-around final before it began, followed by the uneven bars and vault finals., showing her attempts to overcome the problem in practice, and saying she was making decisions day by day.
But she had noted that it was particularly acute on the vault and the floor exercise, leaving it highly unlikely that she would be able to appear in either final. No other American had scored highly enough in the qualification round to take Biles’s place in the floor exercise final, which takes place on Monday; the U.S.’ Jade Carey had already earned another spot in the final.
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