Simone Biles leads Day 1 of the U.S. Olympic gymnastics trials as injuries rock Team USA
Simone Biles is four routines away from making her third Olympic team.
MINNEAPOLIS — Simone Biles is four routines away from making her third Olympic team.
She led her Olympic and club teammate, Jordan Chiles, by 2.5 points after the first day of competition at the Olympic trials. Reigning Olympic all-around champion, Suni Lee, rounded out the top three.
The women’s gymnastics team competing in Paris will be named on Sunday, but the selection committee will have to go back to the drawing board after three frontrunners were injured in the lead-up to Friday's competition.
Kayla DiCello and Shilese Jones both suffered apparent injuries on the vault and were carried off by medical staff. After the meet, USA Gymnastics confirmed that DiCello tore her Achilles and will miss the rest of the trials.
Jones, the reigning world all-around bronze medalist, was able to compete on the uneven bars, but limped off the podium and scratched the rest of the meet.
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