Watch Simone Biles Nail ‘The Biles’ on First Night of U.S. Olympic Gymnastic Trials

© Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images Simone Biles competes in the floor exercise during the Women’s competition of the 2021 U.S. Gymnastics Olympic Trials at America’s Center on June 25, 2021 in St Louis, Missouri.

Olympic gold medals won’t be handed out during the U.S. Olympic Team Trials, but American gymnast Simone Biles already seems head and shoulders above the rest of the world.

Again.

Biles wowed the crowd in St. Louis on Friday night during the first night of the women’s performances at the U.S. Team Trials to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics next month. Included in her first night was delicately executing her own move, “The Biles,” and then sticking the landing.

After the first night of routines, Biles has a score of 60.565, which is already way ahead of Sunisa Lee (57.666), Jordan Chiles (57.132) and Mykayla Skinner (56.598).

Biles is already a lock to make Team USA for next month’s Summer Games.

Here is the floor routine where Biles nailed the routine named after her.

The women will have a day off Saturday while the men wrap up their Olympic Trials in St. Louis, and the women will have their finals on Sunday.

Among the feats achieved by Biles on Friday night was her double-double “Biles” dismount from the beam, which landed her a 15.133 score. This was different from the Yurchenko double-pike vault from a month ago that also garnered the famed gymnast another top score.

Biles won five overall medals at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Summer Olympics—four gold and one bronze. She has only gotten better in the past Olympic quad-plus-one, with new moves getting named after her, and only she can do.

Among the moves Friday night were a pair of elements that she nailed inside the lines during her floor routine, something she missed just earlier this month at the U.S. National Championships in Fort Worth.

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