Gymnastics star Simone Biles is heading back to the world championships. Biles headlines the five-woman U.S. team that will compete at the 2023 event in Antwerp, Belgium in early October.
Simone Biles is heading back to where her record-breaking reign atop gymnastics began.
Biles will be joined by three members of the gold-medal-winning 2022 world championship team — Shilese Jones, Leanne Wong, and Skye Blakely — as well as 17-year-old Joscelyn Roberson. Biles has seven Olympic medals and 25 world championship medals, 19 of them gold. Her 32 combined medals is tied with Larisa Latynina of the Soviet Union for the most ever at the sport's two signature events.
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