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How Simone Biles rallied to reclaim gold in women's all-around gymnastics at Paris Olympics: 'I was stressing'

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PARIS — There were any number of things Simone Biles needed to concentrate on in the middle of the women’s all-around competition here Thursday. Doing math in her head wasn’t something she planned on.

For more than a decade, she’s dominated gymnastics. Olympic medals. World Championships. Moves named after her because no one else had ever executed them before.

Yeah, Tokyo had been a mess.