PARIS, France — Simone Biles has earned three gold medals at the Paris Olympics and she, along with her US women's gymnastics teammates, have one more chance to add to their medal haul before heading home.
Simone Biles and Jordan Chiles will finish up the final day of the gymnastics competition at the Summer Games with the floor exercise finals Monday. In order to compete in the individual finals, gymnasts had to qualify in the top-8 on that apparatus during the team qualification round.
Hezly Rivera, the youngest member of the gold medal-winning team, didn't qualify for any of the individual finals.
When is Simone Biles competing next?
Biles, the most decorated gymnast in the world, managed to qualify for each individual final, except uneven bars.
- Monday, Aug. 5 - Women's floor exercise final (8:20 a.m. ET)
Biles missed the uneven bars final by less than two tenths of a point. She qualified in ninth, so she's considered a "reserve athlete" for the event.
The 27-year-old Olympian did not earn a medal in Monday's balance beam finals after slipping off the apparatus at the end of her routine.
Her teammate Suni Lee also suffered a fall and did not get a spot on the medal stand.
What time does Simone Biles compete on Monday?
Biles will perform her floor routine along with Jordan Chiles in the women's floor exercise final at 8:20 a.m. Eastern.
It comes just hours after competing in the balance beam finals alongside Lee.
What events are left for the US women's gymnastics team to compete in Paris?
Here is rest of the individual finals schedule for the entire U.S. women's gymnastics team athletes:
- Monday, Aug. 5 - Simone Biles and Jordan Chiles in the floor exercise finals
Will this be Simone Biles’ last Olympics?
Biles has kept quiet about her future plans, saying her focus after leaving Paris will be on the post-Olympic tour she headlines. Biles is also married and has talked openly about the fear of missing out on life milestones because of her time in the gym.
Minutes after the American gymnastics star won the seventh Olympic gold of her career on Saturday in a vault final that left little doubt that even at 27 she remains in a class by herself, she played coy when asked if the event marked the final time she would ever explode off the springboard in competition.
While Biles allowed she was officially retiring her eponymous Yurchenko double pike vault because “I kind of nailed that one” at the Paris Olympics, she didn't rule out a return to the Games when they move to Los Angeles in 2028.
“Never say never,” Biles said. “Next Olympics are at home. So you just never know. I am getting really old.”
How many times has Simone Biles been to the Olympics?
The 2024 Paris Summer Games is Simone Biles' third Olympic appearance. She made her debut in Rio and won four gold medals, including team and individual all-around, and one bronze. She returned for the Tokyo Olympics, where she won silver in the team competition and bronze on the balance beam.
What happened to Simone Biles in Tokyo?
During the Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Biles dropped from several events she was scheduled to compete in after suffering a condition that gymnasts call "the twisties."
The twisties are no joke for an Olympic-level athlete. It refers to a prolonged period where a gymnast suddenly loses awareness of where they are in relation to the bar and ground. At the speeds gymnasts perform routines during the Olympics, the twisties can cause serious injury if an athlete stumbles or mistimes a movement because of the issue.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.