“I wasn’t expecting to medal,” Biles said. “To have one more opportunity to be at the Olympics meant the world to me.”
Simone Biles didn’t want her Olympics, and perhaps her career, to end with her in the stands and not on the competition floor.
It couldn’t end that way, after all, considering everything she had sacrificed to make it to these Tokyo Games. She suffered through years as a sexual abuse survivor after realizing that Lawrence G. Nassar, the longtime United States national team doctor, had molested her during what he called standard medical treatments.