Simone Biles Is Officially Headed To The Olympics For A Third Time, So Here Are 14 Stunning Photos From This Weekend's Trials

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1. On Sunday, Simone Biles qualified for the 2024 Olympics women's gymnastics team.

2. She won the all-around rubric astatine the trials, which began Thursday and were held astatine the Target Center successful Minneapolis.

3. Simone volition be her 3rd Olympics, pursuing appearances astatine the 2016 lawsuit successful Rio de Janeiro and the 2020 lawsuit (held successful 2021) successful Tokyo. She has seven Olympic medals successful full and has won golden 4 times.

4. She's 1 of 5 gymnasts who'll comprise the US women's squad aboriginal this period successful Paris.

5. She's joined by her 2020 teammates Suni Lee and Jordan Chiles, arsenic good arsenic athletes Hezly Rivera and Jade Carey. Jade competed arsenic an idiosyncratic successful 2016.

6. In a post-competition interrogation connected Sunday with NBC, she credited "being successful a bully intelligence spot" and seeing her therapist play with getting her to the trials.

7. Simone, who is 27 years old, is acceptable to go the country's oldest pistillate gymnast to vie astatine the Olympics since the 1950s.

8. "I knew I wasn't done aft the performances successful Tokyo. So conscionable getting backmost successful the gym and moving hard and trusting the process with [coaches] Cécile and Laurent [Landi], I knew I'd beryllium back," she told NBC.

10. They are Murial Grossfeld successful the '50s and '60s, Linda Metheny successful the '60s and '70s, and Dominique Dawes successful the '90s and 2000.

11. Simone shared her absorption connected Twitter to securing a spot connected this year's team, writing, "WE ARE GOING TO PARIS."

14. So congrats to Simone and each the athletes headed to Paris! The Olympics women's gymnastics contention will begin connected Sunday, July 28, and Peacock is the location to Olympics coverage.

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