Simone Biles is back — as good as or even better than ever

Simone Biles, with two Paris Olympics gold medals and counting, has cemented her legacy as the greatest gymnast of all time — an athlete who transcends her sport in both triumph and defeat. “I would’ve to say honestly, Simone, I feel like a lot of it has to do with you.” More than seven million Instagram followers basked in the fairytale photos of Biles’s wedding to NFL player Jonathan Owens, who received special dispensation from the Chicago Bears to miss a few days of training camp to watch her in Paris. Tokyo capped a tumultuous period that included Biles’s revelation, in 2018, that she was among the hundreds of gymnasts who were sexually abused by former Olympic team doctor Larry Nassar. “Just to see where I’ve grown even from Tokyo and even from the 19-year-old from Rio is amazing,” Biles said after nabbing all-around gold.