2023-09-21 02:22:06
American gymnast Simone Biles will not participate in the Santiago 2023 Pan American Games, and will only compete in its sixth artistic gymnastics world championships from September 30 in Antwerp (Belgium).
The information was confirmed this Wednesday night by the United States Artistic Gymnastics team, which published its representatives in the Pan American Games: Jordan Chiles, Kayla DiCello, Kaliya Lincoln, Zoe Miller and Tiana Sumanasekera.
Thus, The participation of the American star in Santiago 2023, winner of 4 golds at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, was ruled out. but in Toko 2020 he only took a silver medal, after abandoning due to mental health problems.
Regarding her participation in the Antwerp World Cup, Biles managed to qualify after achieving the best grade this Tuesday in the Katy (Texas) selective camp and thus securing a place on her country’s team.
Despite falling on the uneven bars and vault and leaving the floor mat, her exercises allowed her to score 55.70 points, more than any other candidate, ahead of Shilese Jones’ 55.30.
The quadruple Olympic champion, considered the best specialist of all time, retired during the 2020 Tokyo Games affected by mental health problems and did not return to competition until last August.
After winning the US Classic, he expressed his intention to attend the world championships and the Paris Olympics, for which the American team has already qualified.
The other five members of the team will be announced when the selective camp concludes, this Wednesday.
Biles will compete in Antwerp in search of her sixth absolute world title. The first was won precisely in the Belgian city in 2013 and then followed by Nanning (China) 2014, Glasgow (United Kingdom) 2015, Doha 2018 and Stuttgart (Germany) 2019.
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