{"id":438734,"date":"2023-06-28T15:08:28","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T19:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=438734"},"modified":"2023-06-28T15:08:28","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T19:08:28","slug":"gymnastics-legend-simone-biles-returns-after-two-year-hiatus","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/gymnastics-legend-simone-biles-returns-after-two-year-hiatus\/","title":{"rendered":"Gymnastics legend Simone Biles returns after two-year hiatus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four times Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles will return to competition in August at the U.S. Classic in Chicago, she said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>This will be her first event since Tokyo Olympic Games in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old will take part in the single-day event on Aug. 5 having been out of action for the past two years following her withdrawal from several events in Tokyo because of the extensive pressure put on her.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Simone Biles plans to return to gymnastics competition at the U.S. Classic in August, her first event since the 2020 Tokyo Olympics<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s back \ud83e\udd47\ud83d\ude4c <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dlW8kCo22E\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/dlW8kCo22E<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BleacherReport\/status\/1674078635932672004?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 28, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Biles, who won four gold medals at the 2016 Rio Olympics, cited the pressure of living up to expectations and a need to protect her mental health for her decision to pull out of events in Tokyo, where she won a bronze on the beam and a silver in the team competition, from which she withdrew after one vault.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four times Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles will return to competition in August at the U.S. Classic in Chicago, she said on Wednesday. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":438735,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[20158,20157],"news_category":[16715],"gn_keywords":[20160,20159],"acf":{"announce":"She will be back in action in August","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/438734"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/438734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438734"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=438734"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=438734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}