Simone Biles was in the emergency room past 1 a.m. on Saturday in Qatar. Didn’t look like in in world championships qualifying 17 hours later.
The four-time Rio Olympic champion endured a kidney stone she named the “Doha Pearl,” coming back with the top all-around qualifying score thus far and all but guaranteeing a place in all four apparatus finals. The last gymnast to run the table like that in qualifying? Biles in 2013.
She totaled 60.965 points, a whopping 4.5 points clear of second-place Morgan Hurd with half the gymnasts to go in qualifying.