Simone Biles will compete in gymnastics team competition despite calf injury at 2024 Paris Olympics

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With women's gymnastics qualifications complete, concern rose for Simone Biles after the star gymnast appeared to injure herself between rotations. However, despite the injury, Biles plans to compete in her quest for more Olympic medals in Paris.

USA Gymnastics confirmed the rotation for Team USA's team final on Tuesday, naming three members of the team for each of the four events. Biles, injured leg and all, and teammate Jordan Chiles will compete at all four events, spreading relief for fans who were worried about Biles's ability to keep competing.

During Sunday's qualifiers, Biles went through the first two rotations of qualifying without issue, posting a strong score on bars and a near-perfect score on the balance beam. But during a warm-up tumbling pass ahead of the floor exercise, Biles appeared to injure her left leg. She then went off with the team doctor, but it didn't take long for her to return.

Biles went on to compete on floor and vault with her left leg taped up. Evidently, the injury did not slow her down: She performed brilliantly on both apparatuses, scoring the top scores on both of those events and securing the top score in the all-around.

Biles' coach Cecile Landi told reporters that the soreness in Biles' left calf was something she had been dealing with for a few weeks, but that she exacerbated it during the warm-up. However, Landi said there was no concern about her being healthy enough to continue competing.

Biles has seven Olympic medals in her career, and is on track to earn even more. The 27-year-old finished first in the all-around race, and has advanced to the individual finals in three events — beam, floor and vault, holding the top score in the latter two.

Biles, the all-around gold medalist at the 2016 Summer Olympics, withdrew from the team competition and individual contention at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 after suffering a mental block known in the gymnastics world as the "twisties." But Sunday's injury does not look to affect Biles' chances at earning more medals in 2024.

Biles and Team USA, who currently lead the field, will compete in the women's team finals on Tuesday. Biles will compete against teammate and 2020 Olympic all-around champion Sunisa Lee for the all-around title on Thursday — becoming the first former all-around champs to compete again for the title — with individual event finals in subsequent days.

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