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Simone Biles continued her march toward the Paris Olympics on Friday with a dynamic day one at the US gymnastics trials that featured brilliance and a little reminder that she’s human, too.
Biles’s coach, Laurent Landi, said the injuries to Shilese Jones and Kayla DiCello at the start of the night affected everyone, Biles included. But three years ago, her Tokyo Games campaign came to an abrupt halt as she pulled out of a string of events as she battled the temporary mental block gymnasts call “the twisties,” which causes them to lose their sense of where they are in the air.
Jones, a world championships bronze medallist last year, was hurt in a warm-up vault, limping off with the help of her coach with an apparent knee injury
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