Simone Biles wasn't sure she'd make it back to an
Olympics.
Heck, she wasn't sure she'd make it back to gymnastics,
even after a case of the twisties knocked her out
of almost every single event in Tokyo.
She didn't trust herself, and she certainly didn't trust her
gymnastics.
She took a year off after Tokyo,
and even when she went back,
she said it was more with the idea of just
kind of playing around,
just wanting to see if she could still do some
things.
She's also done the hard work in therapy.
She's back and she's better than ever.
She won her 6th World title at the World Championships
last year,
she won her 9th US title,
and she ran away with the Olympic Trials title too.
Simone's back. Simone isn't the only member of this Olympic
team that feels like she has something to prove in
Paris.
For Jordan Charles and SUNY Lee,
it is wanting more than the silver medal that they
got in Tokyo and silver medal.
It was the first time that they had not won
an Olympics or a world championship since 2010.
And they would like to write that,
quote, UN quote, wrong. Sunni Lee also missed more than
a year or almost,
I should say, almost a year with two kidney diseases
that laid her so low.
There were days that she couldn't get out of bed.
And she wants to prove to herself that she can
do this.
And then you have Jade Carey.
Jade was technically not part of the US team.
She was a specialist in Tokyo.
She still won the Olympic gold medal on floor exercise.
But she very much wants to be part of the
team competition.
And then you have Hesley Rivera,
who at 16 will probably have an Olympic medal before
she has her driver's license.
Hasley took advantage of some of the injuries to other
supposed locks for the team.
But opportunities happen, and she made the most of hers.
And so now she's on her way to the Olympics,
too. the US women's biggest competition in Paris is,
let's be honest, they really don't have any.
With the Russians not allowed to compete in Paris.
There's no other team that has their difficulty.
There's no other team that can match them.
Yes, Brazil is one of the top teams,
Great Britain, France. But in terms of challenging the US
women for the gold medal,
it's not going to happen.