{"id":453966,"date":"2023-08-06T02:41:19","date_gmt":"2023-08-06T06:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=453966"},"modified":"2023-08-06T02:41:18","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T06:41:18","slug":"simone-biles-comes-back-in-style-after-two-year-break","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/simone-biles-comes-back-in-style-after-two-year-break\/","title":{"rendered":"Simone Biles comes back in style after two-year break"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Simone Biles made a great return to gymnastics on Saturday in suburban Chicago, topping the competition by an enormous margin in her first competitive event since the Tokyo Olympics two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The four-time Olympic gold medalist amazed the fans with her sky-high tumbling and a double-flipping vault that were out of this world &#8211; combinations that&#8217;ve never been performed by another female gymnast before.<\/p>\n<p>The sold-out crowd, including many young, hopeful gymnasts, erupted in deafening cheers every time Biles took the podium, and those did not go unnoticed by the 26-year-old.The &#8220;twisties,&#8221; which cut short Biles&#8217; Tokyo run in 2021 were not existent on Saturday as the U.S. gymnast appeared back to her previous, top-notch form after taking more than a year off from the sport.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Simone Biles is back<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd25\ud83d\udd25\ud83d\udd25<\/p>\n<p>Something to celebrate \u2014 Simone wins her first competitive gymnastics event since 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The commentary at the end of her AMAZING floor exercise is something I could live without though\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AMoLzmC5OZ\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/AMoLzmC5OZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cwebbonline\/status\/1688018341586501632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 6, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simone Biles made a great return to gymnastics on Saturday in suburban Chicago, topping the competition by an enormous margin in her first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":453983,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[20158,20157],"news_category":[20292,14084],"gn_keywords":[20160,20159],"acf":{"announce":"The four-time Olympic gold medalist amazed everyone with her performances","video":["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\/453966"}],"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=453966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/453966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453966"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=453966"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=453966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}