Whenever Simone Biles takes the competition floor, she’s setting out for some kind of history. But it’s what’s in her own past that motivates her at this week’s world championships, her first international meet since bagging four gold medals at the Rio Olympics.
“I’ve never medaled in a bar final [uneven bars], but I’ve only been in one,” Biles said last week when asked the event she would most like to win aside from the team competition. “Maybe if I could make a bar final, that would be pretty cool because I think of all the medals you can get and the finals you can participate in, I always admire the bar workers just because it’s so hard mentally and physically.