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No matter who you are, what sport you're in,

everybody's gonna paint the biggest picture for you,

and it's up to you to live up to that hype.

But just, like, being a voice, being a leader,

top team USA,

face of the Olympics...

She is looking to help others feel comfortable about

prioritizing their own mental health.

God, there's just so much to carry.

It's a lot.

With mental health, everybody's battle is different.

I never want them to put me at the forefront and be like,

"Here's the expert."

"She's gonna tell you how you're gonna feel. She has it all figured out."

And I'm like, "Whoa. Don't get me wrong. I do not have it all together,

but I can be there with you guys every step of the way

while we figure this out together."

People just, like, put you on these pedestals.

You know, I'm just, like, begging to just be human.

The Yurchenko double pike.

No other woman is attempting this.

I don't know if anybody even think how difficult it is.

I was so nervous.

It's been two years since I've competed on an international stage.

That setup, that arena, just, like, takes you back to Tokyo.

Wow. It was shocking.

I believe she only did a one-and-a-half twist.

Most of the time, I'm afraid of if I miss my leg,

I'll probably land on my head.

If you slip your hand, I mean, you could literally be paralyzed.

You feel good? Warm up? Warm-up felt good?

Okay, same thing. Even more. Like this in the air. More open, okay?

You get that self-doubt of, "Can I do it again?"

I don't wanna do something stupid.

Everything happens so fast.

Anything could go wrong.

Unbelievable.

She did it!

We are living through history yet again for Simone.

I wasn't thinking along the lines of perfection like I normally am.

- I know! - You did it!

Very good.

This one I was like, "Just land on your feet, salute, and you're good.

"Like, it's named after you. It's done."

To stick a skill like that where you're flipping so fast

that you can't even spot the ground really, it's truly incredible.

This is her fifth named element.

Not her first. Not her second. Her fifth.

Seeing her hit was the best feeling in that day.

The pike will now be known as the Biles II.

I think she forgets a lot who she is and how good she is at what she does.

Simone Biles continues to push the boundaries of what's possible.

I'm just happy. Thank God it's over.

And she will go to Paris as the one to beat.

NOW OFFICIAL: BILES IS THE GOAT

Oh, okay! Okay.

He just got an interception.

You know, everybody wants a little bit of your time during Olympic year.

And you can make them shorter if you need to too.

Unless they like the length.

It's fun to dress up

and not have to worry about putting on a leo and doing gymnastics.

So, mentally, it's good to have that balance

and not just always be thinking about gym.

Good job. Great job.

Whenever I was younger, I wasn't, like, as confident.

All right, let's try another check here.

I would just, like, come to the shoots and be, like, terrified.

Let your personality come through. They are so excited.

Like, "I don't model. I don't do this. I don't do that."

But you kind of learn to step out of your comfort zone at some of these shoots.

- We're walking - Should be a fun day.

Yep!

- You want some hand warmers? - I have some. Thank you.

- Hey, Julia. - Hello.

Oh my God.

- You look great. - You look amazing. Amazing

People, they love to watch the come up. They want to see you win.

As soon as you win, "God I hate her! God, I can't wait until she fails."

It's just, like, what is wrong with people?

People hate my hair for meet days.

"Her hair is all over the place! Look at it! It's crazy!"

But then again, we do it by ourself. We're not professionals.

You just can't win.

We're coming back to first position. We're gonna do it again.

We're gonna go back again.

Yep, come back down the line again.

I think only the comments after 2016 bothered me for hair.

I cannot stand...

- Simone Biles' hairstyle... - Just, like, disgusting.

"Simone Biles' hair looks so crunchy."

It's actually, like, very healthy and not crunchy.

Oh, that is hilarious.

People are way too comfortable commenting things.

So I try to silence the noise.

I think the beauty standard... everything is just too much.

Gymnastics 20 years ago and 30 years ago,

the general culture had a lot of rigidity around your physical appearance,

your eating, your everything.

Now here is the lovely Boginskaya.

Looking in a particular way was really important,

and so hair was a big to-do in the sport of gymnastics.

Everyone had their hair in a particular updo.

It was very clear that the standard of what is beautiful

includes blond, straight hair.

And so for Black girls who have naturally curly, kinky, coily hair,

it automatically just sets us outside of the possibility of beautiful.

I know what it's like being the only Black girl on the team

and not having a role model.

Thankfully we had Betty Okino, Dominique Dawes,

and Gabby Douglas and all that stuff, but it wasn't till, like, later, you know?

It started with Luci Collins in the '80 Olympics.

But that team never actually got to compete.

And then Diane didn't actually make the Olympic team because of her ankle.

So Dominique and I were the first two American Black women

to compete on an Olympic gymnastics team.

I felt being judged, and I felt being judged

because my body type was not what they embraced.

My hair wasn't what they were looking for.

The coaches would push on my feet until my bones started popping out

'cause I have flat feet.

They would wanna see a certain body type and a body look that was not me,

and so I knew that who I was was automatically a deduction.

When we think about sort of Black women gymnasts

and their position in the sport,

we've had, like, Betty Okino in the shadow of Kim Zmeskal,

and we've had Dominique Dawes in the shadow of Shannon Miller.

So we kind of live in,

"It's okay for Black women to 'succeed' within the shadow,"

but when they deviate people get a little unraveled.

This is one of the most anticipated days in the Olympics,

when one woman stands above everyone else.

And we have got a real battle!

It's looking pretty golden for this girl right here!

Gabby Douglas, the first African American

to win the individual All-Around gold medal.

I was like, "Oh my gosh!"

And it was such an exciting time for everyone who looked like us.

It was a beautiful performance,

and it felt like within hours...

So why, on one of the biggest nights of her life,

a trending topic on Twitter was her hair?

She was only 16 years old,

and people were critiquing her hair,

her presentation, her makeup.

She just won the Olympics, and you guys are talking about her hair?

People are like, "Does not compute!"

"This is not what the crowning jewel of the Olympics,

the All-Around gymnastics champion is supposed to look like. Like, do-over."

- Is it really that easy to brush it off? - Gymnastics has taught me a lot of things.

To be disciplined and just don't worry about it.

I just baffles me how that narrative can, you know, take center stage

over what these young girls have done and the impact that they're making.

It has been thrilling to see Simone Biles back

in international competition and thriving,

and tonight she is going for a sixth world All-Around title.

- What kind of waffles are these? - Okay, I...

Of course, the powdered is the powdered.

- Sweet waffles? - Yes.

- Okay. - And fruits, if you'd like.

- Mm-mm. Too healthy. - Let me go wash.

- Dad, are you gonna have some waffles? - No thank you.

I had breakfast earlier.

I haven't had breakfast once since I've been here. Is this chocolate?

Uh-huh. There's chocolate, strawberry.

I'll do a little bit of this chocolate.

I used to always say, "Do something that scares you every single day,"

and God is like, "You will."

"This vault? Every single day. Your floor routine, every single day."

And I'm like, "Great."

- Everyone's going tonight, right? - Yeah, they'll be in the crowd.

Are you just doing the top?

Every other year at Worlds, I'm like, "I wanna place top three on each event,"

but this one was just to get back out there, compete again,

and for me that's, like, a big hurrah.

So whatever happens happens, but I'm not thinking about medal count.

- Are y'all sitting in the same seats? - Pretty much.

- Pretty much. Higher I think. - It's in that far corner?

She likes to know exactly where we're sitting

so she knows where we're at.

It calms her down.

Dad has, uh... has binoculars.

- Yes, I do. - The only way he can see you.

She's been in a good place.

At least, that's how she appears to me.

You just never know.

Once we're all in that arena,

things could change tonight,

but right now, I still think she's in a great place.

Welcome all for the women's All-Around Final

at the World Championships of Artistic Gymnastics.

The gymnast with the highest total after all four events

will be the world champion.

But the battle for the podium is bound to be intense.

Particularly with the Olympic Games on the horizon.

Going into Worlds, I had five All-Around titles.

She has not lost a World Championships that she has competed at.

That's crazy.

Now, I know that's not normal.

I know it's not normal.

The comeback is more personal

because I had been fighting my own demons for so long.

Simone Biles. We don't know what we'll see from her.

She took some time away at the end of the last Olympics.

It's always in the back of her mind,

what happened in Tokyo,

but she's coming out on the other side.

This vault is going to be a Cheng.

It is very difficult.

And it is an enormous opening to her competition.

15.1. That will not do too badly at all.

- I think that's my best vault here yet. - Yes, it was. For sure.

There were such loud voices in my head

telling me, "Don't put this kind of pressure on yourself."

"You don't have to do it if you don't want to."

But I was like, "Know what? No."

"I really have to prove to myself that I can do this."

I was the most nervous I've probably ever been for a competition.

Simone Biles absolutely, well and truly, back

at the top in her career that there is no doubting her status.

The score is enormous! 58.339!

Simone Biles wins the All-Around title

in the style of the champion that she is.

I've been training all year, so it was just such a relief,

so much excitement, so much hard work paid off.

Six World Championship titles in All-Around gymnastics!

I looked over at my coaches, Laurent and Cécile,

and, you know, they were in Tokyo with me.

Like, they've gone through the emotional roller coaster

that I've gone through.

So they were looking at each other like, "Don't cry!"

I couldn't even look at them, 'cause I was like, "Oh no."

"This is not about to happen."

And real signs of emotion on the face of Simone Biles.

That night the podium was full of Black-girl magic,

and that's something that's never ever happened

at a World Championships before.

Growing up in the sport, that's something you could only dream

of seeing or being able to witness,

and I think a lot of girls needed to see that.

To all be on one podium together, and that's the three best in the world,

I hope it inspired them.

Simone Biles going to the Olympic Games

as the reigning world All-Around champion.

Hey, Siri,

how many world and Olympic medals does Simone Biles have?

Siri's wrong. Siri said 19.

We're on Google. We got it. It's 37.

Man, you look like you at US Open.

The Owens Open. Come on.

All right!

I said I was good.

Four-zero.

Growing up, Simone, she was always fun to be around.

Everyone... She always was making people laugh.

- We need to get... - Ten-six!

You can't even return the serve?

Me and Simone fought all the time. All the time.

Sideline warning.

Ref, get her.

Ten-five!

Ref!

When we were younger, like, I thought it was, like,

oh my God, like, she's so bossy.

Yeah, okay. Bossy? I would say protective.

The pressure's on! Can't get scraped...

We were in foster care together, so I felt like she was my little kid,

so I think that's where some of the bossiness came from.

- I need to be on that side. - No, you don't.

Now I know she was trying to protect me, so I think it was like a big-sister thing.

- Ooh! - No!

Come on. Come on.

The winner!

Whatever.

My family's meant the world, and they've given up and sacrificed a lot

for me to be where I am,

all starting with taking in my sister and I when we were younger.

I don't remember this thing. It's been a long time.

This is about to begin right there.

- You guys excited about Christmas? - Yes!

Why?

'Cause it's a fun year!

It's a what?

It's just... I love Christmas!

Stop!

Simone's biological mother is Ron's daughter,

and, at the time, she had four children.

Look at Grandpa. Look at Grandpa. See Grandpa?

Look at Grandpa!

Because of her substance abuse,

they needed to take the children away from her.

- Hi. - I wanna see myself!

Say hi.

Adria was a baby. I'm two, three years old.

There were a lot of times

where you didn't know what was gonna happen,

where you were gonna end up, if there was gonna be food on the table.

You didn't know if Mother was going to come back home.

And you're so young, so you don't really know how to process that either.

They were in foster care from six to nine months

before we got them.

Oh. Oh wow. The braids.

Man.

- This is Simone's... - When she first came to us, right?

...arrival. That was how you came from foster care.

The little spiral things?

I was very fortunate to have me and Adria being adopted

by my grandparents, who are now officially my parents.

And so our two older siblings, Ashley and Tevin,

got adopted by my aunt Harriet, which is my dad's sister.

So they stayed in Ohio, and we came down here to Texas.

I went from Grandma, and I was perfectly fine with Grandma,

and then when that time came of being called "Mom,"

that's a powerful word.

And that was probably the hardest thing for them to do,

is not only bring us in, but to see if they could repair our trauma.

Yeah, but I remember going to the foster home.

Sometimes you don't get to stay together.

Because the first time, you were separated.

I'll never forget where I came from

and how it shaped me into the person I am today.

I always knew that I wanted to break boundaries

and statistics.

Whenever you're in foster care and you come out of it,

the odds are against you.

So for me, I was kind of always that kid

that if somebody told me I couldn't do something, I would.

She has somehow rose above those occasion.

Not only does she feel good doing her sport,

it gives her the control that only she has,

and I think that she could control it

because she could perfect it.

Do ten laps. Just be careful of the floor routine.

Level ten. You elites, you can go over here. It's fine.

Go.

So every time it's become the Olympic year,

usually shortly after the ball drops, I have a little bit of a mental breakdown,

and I didn't really have that this time.

Back walkovers and front walkovers.

But last night, I will say, laying in bed,

whenever I started thinking about the Olympics and everything,

I kinda started to panic a lot.

Like, my heart was like...

It took me awhile to fall asleep, and I had to, like, calm myself down

and be like, "It's only January. We still have months of preparation."

But I feel like that feeling is normal

for an Olympic year, for me personally.

She's 70% ready.

We just need reps and numbers, and... and that's it, you know?

We try to get some skills back

and try to see if we can do a different routine here and there.

Here and then instead of pushing away, go fall this way.

I know it sounds outrageous, but, like, in the car, like, you don't...

You try not to get hurt. You try not to...

Even driving to practice, I get a little skeptical every day,

and it just doesn't become, like, everything in the gym.

- Down. - What do you mean? I'm...

Down. When... Snap and fall down.

Okay.

So I just try to be, like, careful everywhere I go

rather than just, like, in the gym,

which sounds insane, but, like, anything could happen.

So it's just like you just wanna have a perfect year.

When you guys done, level ten, go on trampoline.

The elites, you go on straps.

I've had a lot of downtime in the gym.

I was supporting Jonathan so much and going back and forth to Green Bay,

so that was kind of, like, my off-season time.

It's a beautiful day for football. Get in here!

- Simone, can we get a selfie? - We love you!

- Thank you. - You're welcome.

Ah!

If you were to tell me

that I was training for the Olympics and flying to Green Bay every weekend,

I'd be like, "You're out of your mind. Why would I go to Green Bay?"

Like, "What?" That just doesn't make sense for us

as a newlywed.

And yet here we are.

- Hi, how are you? - I'm good!

- I love you. Good luck. - Thank you. You warm?

- Yes. - Good today, huh?

- I got my hand warmers. - You look good, girl.

Thanks.

He's so cute.

I never thought I was gonna be a football wife.

Come here! Are you tired?

It's nice to come to these games and to relate to the other girls

and it not just be about gymnastics or me.

And I like it because all the attention gets to be on Jonathan!

Whoo!

First time you've been here with the wave?

Yeah! Yeah!

Wait. It's coming back! It's coming back!

Whoo!

It's really important for me to be here to support my husband

because he supported me throughout my career,

and I get to return that favor.

Go, babe!

He came from D2 undrafted,

and I'm so proud of the work that he's put in.

He's made it out the mud, so I'm proud of him.

Look at their little chant.

Go, Pack, go!

Go, Pack, go!

It's kind of crazy to me how it's all panning out.

Before, I kind of thought, like, it was end-all, be-all. I have to be in the gym.

But now I think I'm taking a lot more personal time

but making sure whenever I'm in the gym, I'm focused, getting my work done.

Well, everybody's traveling pretty light.

- Yup. - Yeah.

After Worlds,

I think I'm feeling a little bit more confident in the gym.

- Zoe, you wanna put your blanket here? - No.

- Okay. - I'm good.

I'm more comfortable in my skills. I believe in myself a little bit more.

So I think I really needed that.

- Are we doing physical abilities today? - I think so.

Like, all the new stuff too.

Once you make National Team or you're invited to a National Team camp,

we have 11 training camps a year.

Come on. Push.

Nice.

So I just kind of go there, do my training,

and it helps me prepare for an Olympic cycle.

Rushing.

How long have you been coming to camp? Like, how many years?

Jesus. Okay, how old am I? 26?

I think I've been coming to camp for over 13 or 14 years.

- I was like... - Wow.

- Yeah, 13 or something. - That's insane.

Is it different now?

I feel like camp is a little bit more free spirited.

- Yeah. - It's not a strict as before.

- Yes. - Yeah.

Whenever I first started, I just remember going to my first camp,

and they were usually held at the Karolyi Ranch.

Okay, girls.

2016. Olympic year.

We have only six months left to get ready for the Olympics.

Growing up in Mártha's era,

I felt like I kinda had to dim my personality.

Now, mental strength will be very important.

USA Gymnastics brought the Károlyis on

as coaches to change the system,

and that's what they did,

but it came at a very high price for the gymnasts.

If you look back, Béla and Mártha Károlyi

were hailed as this hero and this savior for the sport of gymnastics.

They became, like, the standard of excellence

because they came in from Romania having been coaches of Nadia.

A ten has gone on the board.

That is Olympic history for Nadia Comăneci.

And then immediately after, Mary Lou.

There it is! The gold medal goes to Mary Lou Retton.

The way the Károlyis trained was...

it was an old-world method. It was what they had brought from Romania.

It was pushing your body and your mind and yourself,

and then seeing if you're gonna break.

Reach for more perfection.

I like to have fun doing gymnastics,

and after I went to camp, that was not fun.

And then I realized they held our careers in their hands.

We couldn't put ourself on a world team, on our Olympic team.

Everything what you do from this moment, it counts.

It was honestly frowned upon to be, like, silly at practice

or to be laughing.

It was a very Type-A environment where we wanted to be perfect.

Parents were not allowed to be at the Ranch,

and you kind of have to give 100% trust into everything they're doing.

Thank you, Mártha, coaches, national staff. Goodbye.

Everybody wanted to control what they were eating.

You didn't really have a say on how you felt.

I remember not sticking a vault,

just, like, taking the slightest step forward,

and being told I was worthless to the team.

It was very military.

You don't really speak. You don't say much.

You don't have an opinion.

You just were taught to be silent.

And up! Go down.

Even if the cast is bad, you need to go earlier.

You never go earlier.

But it's not just the Ranch, and it's not just USA Gymnastics.

Many other American coaches followed suit.

All the way up. All the way.

There wasn't the understanding of rest,

and there certainly wasn't any focus on the mental health.

I don't know if you could call it words of encouragement

from Coach John Geddert.

We'll just call it words.

We had this sort of distortion

that intensity, pain, anger, negativity, that's what it takes.

This is the only way for us to be dominant.

Given so much of the toxicity,

USA Gymnastics having that space obviously created fertile ground

for someone who has a position of power to exploit.

Um...

Yes, I love this.

We used to get ready together all the time. Remember? At, um...

When we roomed... the one and only time we roomed together at Pan Ams?

Aly used to be so messy. I roomed with her one time at Pac Rim.

- Never again. - We never roomed together ever again.

We actually did get... We were like... Well, we, like, bicker like sisters,

but we love each other, but we shouldn't room together.

I first met Simone when I started to come back to training camp in 2014.

Floor was my best event.

That is a performance to beat.

I had come back, trying to make the 2016 Olympic team.

- Did you just see how quickly I just... - Yeah, I did!

I realized quickly that she was just so good.

I was like, "Ooh, this may be a challenge for me on floor."

See? Messy.

Clean.

Yeah, that's exactly it.

I feel like we were very close from the very beginning.

First, she was my idol. I literally have, like, autographs from her,

seeing her at, like, classics and championships in 2012.

I gravitated towards her because I was a little bit more anxious,

and I wanted to do, like, everything perfectly right,

and Simone has this fun balance to her

where she can be focused when she needs to be,

but then she can just turn it off and be goofy and silly.

Wait, can I just try this? Should I let you do it?

- Yeah. - Okay, let's do this.

Damn, girl. Your lips are dry.

Hold on.

Dude, I'm no professional. Oh.

I think I fucked this up.

Hold on. Let me fix it.

Okay.

Having Aly there at my first Olympics in Rio...

She was team captain.

She showed me the ropes and kinda taught me everything,

so that was like... She was kind of like my rock.

That's even hard to describe, what the first Olympics felt like.

The nerves were there,

but I had never been more prepared in my entire life.

Gymnasts, your three-minute warm-up begins now.

I remember before we walked out to compete, we were looking at each other.

I was like, "Are you okay?" She was like, "Nope. Are you okay?"

"Nope. I feel like I'm gonna throw up," and she's like, "I do too."

We did deep breaths together.

We held each other's hands. We're like, "We got this. Let's go."

On vault is Simone Biles.

First score.

And this is why Simone Biles is what she is.

We could've done those routines with our eyes closed, backwards.

There was nothing to stop that team.

Absolutely nothing could stand in our way.

This is nonstop beautiful choreography

displayed at the highest performance level.

Judges, put your pencils down, because that right there,

that is an Olympic-gold-medal-winning moment.

That was just a special moment

because all the hard work, everything had kinda fallen into place.

Yeah, they're gonna be gymnastics royalty after this.

Having that high and then winning, it almost didn't feel real.

We are the final five!

You see your idols, and you're like,

"I wonder how that would feel if I made history,"

and I'm making history now, and I don't even know what to feel!

Four gold medals and a bronze,

which is a crazy thing.

I came out of 2016 with five medals.

I don't think I've ever been so excited in my entire life.

She's the new queen of gymnastics.

This has been her destiny all along.

Rio was the highlight of my life, and at the end of the trip,

I said, "Oh, shit."

"I just achieved my greatest feat at 19."

"What the heck am I supposed to do with the rest of my life?"

So that's when I got home.

I didn't really know what depression was.

But I knew I just, like, needed to get rest.

But even whenever I was resting, I wasn't resting.

I stopped doing a lot of things that I was passionate about.

Everybody told me I just won the Olympics. How could I be sad?

I couldn't really pull all of my emotions

and everything that I was going through together.

And then all that stuff started coming out.

Shocking allegations tonight against the former head physician

of the US Women's Olympic Gymnastics Team,

accused of sexually assaulting young girls in his care

over a period of 19 years.

More than 265 victims have come forward since the scandal broke.

In the very beginning, when everything came out,

I felt like I was so naive all of those years,

thinking it's normal.

Who was the doctor that USAG sent to keep us healthy?

The doctor that was our abuser.

They thought it was medical treatment.

You have to understand, they were 13, 14, 15 at the time.

We were just kids.

Nobody ever told us what, like, sexual abuse was.

And once I realized it wasn't my fault,

it was the culture of gymnastics and the people that covered it up.

Olympic stars say Nassar abused them at the Texas Ranch

owned by Béla and Mártha Károlyi.

If over these many years just one adult listened

and had the courage and character to act,

this tragedy could've been avoided.

USA Gymnastics was fostering a culture

that put money and medals first.

This is probably the darkest stain

in US Olympic history.

I remember, like, driving on the highway over here on 99,

and I just remember breaking down and calling my mom.

She told me to pull over 'cause I was crying so hard.

She was just hysterical.

She didn't say anything. She just cried, and we just cried together

because I knew what it was that she wanted to talk about.

She didn't have to say anything.

The former Olympic doctor was sentenced

to 40 to 175 years in prison.

When everything came out, that's all you can think about

because it's like walking around with "survivor" or something on your forehead.

I don't think people realize that, like, explaining that story

and being, like, a survivor and an advocate for that,

it's so mentally exhausting.

And they couldn't do one damn job.

You had one job. You literally had one job, and you couldn't protect us.

Everyone sort of embodies and experiences trauma in different ways,

but it stays with us.

So think about Simone's life

with something that she carries, that all of those girls carry.

It's hard to step back into the gym after all we've been through,

but it's even harder to do it under the pressure that she has.

I know that she's expected to win, like, all the gold medals,

and I... and I really hope that she does, but I just hope that no matter what,

she can just look back and be proud

that, like, even the fact she's trying to come back is really amazing.

I truly do believe that we've put in the work,

and I've kind of freed myself from a lot of that big stuff

that I didn't get to tackle before.

I've talked to my therapist multiple times

about if I were having trouble at any of the meets,

ways to stay calm through visualizations, like,

"What's one thing that makes you not stressed out?"

And for me, it's like I feel the most serene at the beach.

Visualize yourself that. Take some deep breaths.

Or, "What makes you feel powerful?" And I'm like, "Okay, the color red."

So then I would be like, "Okay, that's my power,"

so I feel that whenever I'm out there competing and stuff like that.

So... and then I feel like that really, really helps.

Come on! Come on!

All right, breathe.

Breathe.

Long here. Long! Up!

Same thing. Very long there too.

Very long. Long!

Come on, Simone. Swing!

Yes. Good job.

We are about two months away from the Olympic team being named.

And now we're a couple weeks from US Classic,

and once it's US Classic, it not gonna stop.

So, US Classic, it's usually your first big meet back

to try the new routines, new combo, get some feedback from the judges,

and kind of get out there without too much pressure.

Yeah, that was good.

After that, at Championships, the big goal is to get your spot

on the national team so you can be picked for the US Olympic Team trials.

So June 30th, this is when the US Olympic Team will be announced,

and so, as of now, we don't... the team is qualified, the country,

but there's no athletes personally qualified yet, until that day.

So many people think I'm automatically on the Olympic team,

but every year, I still have to try out.

Watch your feet.

It's a little sharper than this. If you want, you just go...

and then go like that, instead of this.

The next month or two, it's back on the trail of reps and routine

to really get mentally and physically ready

for what's gonna happen from April all the way to August.

Stop here.

Everybody wants to beat Simone.

Lean, and sharp here with your hand.

So it's pushing her to be even better

on the detail work or the upgrades that she can do.

In the floor routine, the only "upgrade" for this year

would be putting the triple-double back in.

A triple-double is three twists, two flips.

The only reason why we didn't do it last year

is because I was getting comfortable with twisting again.

Last year she was doing those skills,

and you could feel there was a little apprehension

or it wasn't as quick as it used to be.

Now twisting actually feels back to normal.

Technically, I love it the way it is now.

We know she has the skills. It's not a problem of having them or not.

Is it worth it physically for her and mentally?

Nice. Is it good?

I don't wanna overwhelm her,

so it's gonna be a matter of communication.

"How do you feel? What do you think?"

"Like, we know you can do all of this, but what do you want to compete?"

- See my lips? - Merge onto Connecticut...

- Is that the dye? - Mm-hmm.

Oh, that's so cute.

Oh my God! Oh my God! What, you didn't get the package?

No, it still says "at the sorting facility" here.

What the hell? I put a little turtle in there for you.

Oh.

It was so cute!

Well, I'm sure I'll get it. Jonathan's calling. Hold on.

Honestly, these next two, two and a half months

are probably the most stressful.

- All right. Stay safe. - Yep.

Almost everything we do, we start second-guessing,

and then it just gets a little bit crazy and hectic.

This is the first meet of her Olympic preparation.

I know at home, it's been very good recently,

so we wanna make sure

whatever she does at home, she does the same thing in competition.

So make your mark, too, when you go over there.

We have these goals in mind,

and if you potentially make that team, how big you know it will be

for yourself and for your career and for the country.

The path to Paris accelerates starting tonight.

You want to make that team and compete,

you've gotta make an impression starting tonight.

And what a field, including three Olympic All-Around champions.

Among them, Simone Biles.

Right now, the goal here is to build up that skill level,

but you really don't wanna be at 100% right now

because that's too difficult to maintain

for a couple of months.

They wanna peak at the right time,

which is Olympic trials and the Olympic Games.

Before we started our events, I was really nervous.

And I always tell the girls, like,

"Nothing changes. Your gymnastics doesn't change."

"Just the atmosphere and the arena."

And so I actually found myself saying that a lot before we started.

First event of the season for Simone Biles in the lead-up to Paris.

And she will start on balance beam.

Once I started doing my routines, I just kept having to stress to myself,

like, "Nothing changes. Your gymnastics is the same."

"Your gymnastics is the same."

Athletes have a different style.

Simone is really quick twitched.

You see how fast she gets to that finish position.

Great way for her to start this competition.

Even though it's a race, we don't need to be perfect right away.

If you would be open more, you will stick it.

- You know? The shape. - Yeah.

Without changing the technique.

- Just stay more open, you'll stick it. - Okay.

There's nothing that replicates competition.

This is why it's so important to do the best

and try to hit four for four,

then we'll see what worked, what didn't work.

So we're starting to see the difficulty

across the board for Simone Biles being added into her routines.

Now the Biles II, the fifth skill named after Simone Biles.

She just keeps getting better.

She feels good. She looks good. The body language is good.

We wanna make sure everything is really lined up

with what we wanna see from her at the Games.

We're in for a treat because she's doing a triple-double,

and the last time she did it was at the Olympic Games.

She almost has to walk into the triple-double

so she doesn't go out of bounds.

I'm laughing, John, because who has to try less

for a triple-double? Only Simone Biles.

Today I was really impressed. She was confident.

No major stress that we could see.

That's how it's done.

She's a champion for a reason.

Fifty-nine point five.

So it is Simone Biles who wins the All-Around here.

Congrats. This is the first of a few meets in the US this summer.

What are the main takeaways for you?

Yes, for me, I was just happy to be back out there,

get through those nerves again, feel that adrenaline.

Of course, there's things to go home and fix,

but I'm not... I'm not mad about it.

She has more competition now and more athletes that wanna beat her,

so she wants to make sure she'll stay ahead.

But you also have to live in the moment because it does go really fast,

and once you blink, it's over.

'Cause I feel like everybody's waiting for somebody to beat me,

but at this point, my biggest competition is still myself.