she took a step off the floor, and in her second, she took a step forward. However, those ninety seconds were a declaration of her comeback to the Olympics, in front of famous people like Tom Cruise,
Ariane Grande, and the ever-present Snoop Dogg, whose presence demonstrated how important gymnastics is to society.
Anxiety persisted. When her routine ended, Biles did not go to join her colleagues; instead, she sat on the top step heading down from the floor.
Before attacking the vault, the discipline where her Tokyo Olympics ended, she remained still on the stadium floor.
This could have been the time to ease off and shield the strapped calf, if there was one. But after a warm-up run on all fours, Biles made jokes with her colleagues by crawling back.
