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Gymnastics superstar Simone Biles is ready to step into the Olympic spotlight once again. The American headlines a U.S. team heavily favored to win gold in Paris. The 27-year-old Biles says she's in a different place now than she was in Tokyo in 2021, when she removed herself from multiple finals to focus on her mental health. Biles understands that are critics who are still fixated on what happened in Japan. She says she knows she can never silence them, so she has no plans to even try as she prepares for what could be her final competition.
