00:00Simone Biles is saying before this Olympics that Paris 2024 would be her
00:05redemption tour and she certainly seems to be on the way to doing that as you
00:10said she led Team USA to that a gold medal in the team women's team event
00:17earlier this week and now she is of course the big favorites are here in the
00:21women's all-around event after finishing a top in the qualifier Simone Biles who
00:26currently has five gold medals in the Olympics said to her name she is looking
00:31to go for a six Duke to continue to cement to her legacy as the greatest a
00:37gymnast of all time and the most decorated already as in her sport her
00:42nearest competitors at this evening at Bercy arena will be Brazilian Rebecca
00:47Andrade with lots of Brazilian fans are here as well as Americans at this
00:52evening and then her compatriots of course Sunisa Leah who won the gold back
00:56in Tokyo in the absence of Simone Biles in the women's all-around event Simone
01:01Biles who obviously is making this dazzling comeback at the Paris 2024
01:06games after pulling out of the vast majority of events three years ago in
01:10Tokyo after suffering from the twisties that's when a gymnast loses their
01:14bearings whilst in the air she's back here and she's beating her demons on her
01:18own terms and she will of course be the big favorites now to retain her title
01:23this evening and there'll be no French competitors in the finals of the
01:28all-around competition Kellyanne Namour could have been competing for France
01:33instead she had a Rouse Alina with the French Gymnastics Federation and will be
01:39competing for Algeria that's right Francois it's a big loss for the French
01:46Gymnastics Federation that she was representing them as laters as 2023
01:52that's when she decided to switch her allegiances because of a row regarding
01:57several things at the moving of her training and the location of where she
02:01was training but most importantly because of an injury that she picked up
02:05which led to accusations of overtraining from her by her coaches and then when
02:12she got the all-clear from her own doctors well the doctor for the French
02:16Federation refused to give her the all-clear and that seems to be in the
02:20final straw for her that's when she decided to represent Algeria which is
02:24the home country of her grandparents she is the big favorites and not here this
02:29evening in the all-around individual competition but it could well be that
02:33she gets Algeria's first gold ever in a gymnastics competition on the uneven
02:38bars where she finished first in the qualifiers
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