Biles showed no signs of the mental block that forced her to remove herself from multiple competitions at the 2020 Olympics. Next up is the U.S. Championships in San Jose later this month.
Wearing No. 231 and sporting - at least before she began competing - a necklace bearing "Owens" in tribute to her husband, she seemed equal parts relaxed and energized.
Her score of 14.000 was the third best of the competition and a signal of things to come. She was as solid and steady as ever on balance beam, where she won a bronze in Tokyo after a week of uncertainty, a medal she's described as one of the sweetest of her career. Still, the lure of the gym tugged at her, though she's taking a more muted approach to her comeback than in 2018 or in the run-up to Tokyo in 2021.She was dynamic on floor exercise, where her tumbling passes have long been showstoppers. While she and her coaches have tweaked her routines a bit to better take advantage of the sport's updated Code of Points, she still does some of the most challenging gymnastics in the sport typically with seemingly effortless ease.
She finished with a Yurchenko double-pike vault, a roundoff onto the table followed by two back flips with her hands clasped behind her knees. It's a vault she toyed with in 2021 hoping to pull off in Tokyo.
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