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SimoneBiles and the U.S. women’s gymnastics team are competing in the team final today at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Biles and her teammates Suni Lee, Jordan Chiles, Jade Carey and Hezly Rivera are heavy favorites to win gold, a dominant qualifying again showing how far ahead they are of their competitors. Biles tweaked her calf in qualifying, but still blew everyone out of the water in the session and will do all four events in the team final.USA TODAY Sports will bring you live results, scores and highlights throughout the day. Follow along.When is Simone Biles competing today?Simone Biles and the U.S. women’s gymnastics team compete today in the Olympics team final, which starts at 12:15 p.m. ET.Women’s gymnastics on TV todayNBC is airing it the women’s gymnastics team final, Peacock is live streaming it.2024 Olympic medals: Who is leading the medal count? Follow along as we track the medals for every sport.Simone Biles injury update from ParisCecile Landi, one of Biles’ coaches, said after qualifying on Sunday there are no concerns about Biles continuing to compete in Paris after tweaking her calf and having her ankle taped. Landi said “she felt better at the end (of the session), yeah.”Landi went on to say there was no discussion about Biles not continuing to compete on Sunday. “Never in her mind,” Landi said. Landi also said there was no discussion about Biles doing just one vault or watering down her planned skills. Landi was then asked what Biles did with her leg: “Just a little pain in her calf. She felt it a little bit on floor. And we taped it to kind of (tighten) it up.” Biles finished competing in the qualifying session with her left ankle taped. Here’s everything we know about Simone Biles’ injury and her tweaked calf.Is Simone Biles the greatest gymnast of all time?Biles is the greatest gymnast of all time. She has consistently dominated the sport for over a decade, which would have been an unimaginable feat just a few years ago as most gymnasts reach their peak in their late teens. Her ability to win is in a class of its own. With 37 Olympic and world championship medals — 27 of which are gold — Biles has won the most of any gymnast in history. She has also not lost an all-around competition since 2013.Biles redefines the possibilities of her sport not just in her record-breaking number of wins and medals, but also in the unmatched difficulty of the skills she completes. Biles has no less than five skills named after her — two on the vault and floor and one on the balance beam — because she was the first, and in most cases, the only athlete to complete them in competition.The USA TODAY app brings you every Team USA medal — right when it happens.Download for full Olympics coverage, crosswords, audio storytelling, the eNewspaper and much more.Simone Biles’ competition scheduleSimone Biles will compete in five of the six women’s gymnastics events, uneven bars the lone event she will not compete in. Here’s the full Paris Olympics gymnastics schedule.The women’s team final begins at 12:15 p.m. ET Tuesday, July 30.The women’s all-around final is at 12:15 p.m. ET Thursday, Aug. 1.The women’s vault final is at 10:20 a.m. ET Saturday, Aug. 3.The women’s uneven bars final is at 9:40 a.m. ET Sunday, Aug. 4.The women’s balance beam final (6:36 a.m. ET) and floor exercise final (8:20 a.m.) are Monday, Aug. 5.Simone Biles’ Yurchenko double pike: What to knowThe Biles II is also known as the Yurchenko double pike, one of five moves named after Simone Biles. Vaults are categorized by “families,” which are based on the entry. On Yurchenko vaults, a gymnast does a roundoff onto the takeoff board and a back handspring onto the table. Biles then follows it with a double somersault in the piked position.Few men even try this vault, which is so difficult because of the power it takes to get two somersaults as well as its lack of a bailout. If something goes awry, more likely to land on her head or neck than her knees.Biles began doing this vault in 2021 but didn’t do it at a worlds or Olympics until the 2023 world championships. With a 6.4 difficulty value, it is the hardest vault in the women’s code.When Biles did the vault last year, she took a half-point deduction for having coach Laurent Landi standing on the landing mat, ready to step in and redirect her into a safe position if it looked as if she was headed for a scary landing. But neither Biles nor Landi feel the need for him to do that anymore.The most difficult vault commonly executed by other gymnasts is valued at 5.6, eight-tenths lower than the Biles II, so doing it gives Biles a huge scoring advantage.Simone Biles’ moves named after her: What to knowSimone Biles has left her mark on the sport of gymnastics. In addition to her record number of medals — she has 37 at the world championships and Olympics, more than any other gymnast, male or female — Biles has five skills named after her. Skills are named after the first gymnast to do them in a major international competition, like the world championships or Olympics. She has two on vault, two on floor exercise and one on balance beam. Here’s are the Simone Biles moves named after her. — Nancy ArmourHow many Olympic medals does Simone Biles have?Biles has won seven Olympic medals, four of which are gold. At the 2016 Rio Olympics, Biles won three individual golds in the all-around, vault and floor exercise and led Team USA’s “Final Five” to the team gold. She also added a bronze medal on the balance beam. At the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, Biles added a silver medal in the team event and an additional bronze medal in the balance beam to her hardware collection.How many Olympics has Simone Biles been to?The 2024 Paris Olympics are Simone Biles’ third Olympic Games.Simone Biles has 5 gymnastics moves named after her. What are they?What’s it like to train with Simone Biles every day? We asked her teammates.Simone Biles’ pursuit of balance: How it made her a better person, gymnastHow Simone Biles moved mental health discussion forward in gymnasticsWhat you need to know about Olympic gold medal gymnast Simone BilesWatching Simone Biles compete is a gift. Appreciate it at Paris Olympics while you canWhere Simone Biles trains and what it’s like to train with herSimone Biles trains at Champions Centre World, which is owned by Biles’ parents Nellie and Ron and is just outside Houston, has become one of the premier gyms in the country. WCC has two gymnasts on the five-woman US team at the 2024 Paris Olympics, Biles and Jordan Chiles, with Joscelyn Roberson a traveling alternate and Tiana Sumanasekera a non-traveling alternate. It also sent the most gymnasts, five, to the Olympic trials, and had three more at the US championships.”Training with Simone is, like, once in a lifetime,” said Roberson, who moved to WCC after the US championships in 2022. “She’s always so bubbly in the gym. Plus, she can hit. All the time. Like, she never has a bad day, which is insane to me.”Nellie Biles talks reaction to Simone Biles’ calf injuryNellie Biles is happy to see the joy back on her daughter’s face at the 2024 Paris Olympics, but she told USA TODAY Sports on Monday her heart skipped a beat when Simone Biles briefly left Sunday’s qualifying session after tweaking her calf.”Well, I was worried about that,” Nellie Biles said after an appearance on NBC’s TODAY show. “Then I saw her up there to do that Yurchenko (double pike on the vault), I’m like, ‘For real?’ And then I gave her the thumbs up to see if she was OK and she nodded, so I’m like, ‘OK, she’s fine,’ and she went and she threw it. It was great. It was great. I’m like, ‘OK, then I guess you’re fine.'”Both Biles’ mother and brother, Ron Jr., said Monday they’re thrilled to see her healthy and happy ahead at these Paris Olympics.“I just want to see her just be happy, man, succeed, and we’ve got no expectations as a family,” Ron Biles Jr. said. “Not putting anything on her but just want her to feel comfortable, confident, fulfilled when it’s all complete and done. Just really just see her in her element. She’s worked so hard to get back, gone through a lot and I’m just so happy just to see her in Paris.””I’m very proud as a mother to watch her and see her enjoying what she’s doing,” Nellie Biles said. “It’s different. Every time I watch her compete. It all depends on where she’s at mentally, and now I could tell that she’s in a very good place and she’s enjoying it. And you know, it is so good to see. It is so good to see.”Who is Simone Biles’ husband?Simone Biles’ husband is Jonathan Owens, a safety for the Chicago Bears. His career is self-made. He was an undrafted free agent out of Missouri Western and signed with the Arizona Cardinals in April 2018. Less than a month later, he tore his ACL and spent his entire rookie season on injured reserve.He was cut by the Cardinals at the end of training camp in 2019 and signed with the Houston Texans on Sept. 30, 2019. Owens spent most of that season on the practice squad, though he did make his NFL debut Nov. 21, 2019, against Indianapolis. Owens moved between the Texans’ practice squad and the active roster the next two seasons, playing in 13 games and making two starts. He enjoyed a breakout season in 2022, starting all 17 games for the Texans and ranking second on the team with 125 tackles. He also had one sack..
