{"id":22708,"date":"2021-08-02T15:12:08","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T09:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=132103"},"modified":"2021-08-02T15:12:08","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T09:42:08","slug":"tokyo-olympics-american-gymnast-simone-biles-is-set-to-return-for-beam-final-event-on-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/olympics\/tokyo-olympics-american-gymnast-simone-biles-is-set-to-return-for-beam-final-event-on-tuesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo Olympics: American gymnast Simone Biles is set to return for beam final event on Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Simone Biles is set to return to the major event and will contend in the women\u2019s balance beam final on the last day of the artistic gymnastics competition at the Tokyo Olympics on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are so excited to confirm that you will see two U.S. athletes in the balance beam final tomorrow \u2013 Suni Lee and Simone Biles. Can\u2019t wait to watch you both,\u201d announced the USA Gymnastics through their Twitter handle.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We are so excited to confirm that you will see two U.S. athletes in the balance beam final tomorrow \u2013 Suni Lee AND Simone Biles!! Can\u2019t wait to watch you both!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 USA Gymnastics (@USAGym) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USAGym\/status\/1422112558920601601?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 2, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The list for eight finalists who will contend in the event was released on Monday that involved the name of Biles.<\/p>\n<p>The American gymnast had concluded to have propelled the sport to new boundaries. She told that she was struggling with the \u201ctwisties\u201d, which means that she was in that situation of gymnasts where they lose the potential to orientate themselves in mid-air.<\/p>\n<p>The four-time Olympic champion had withdrawn from the team\u2019s opening event the previous week after one vault and thereafter she decided to skip from the all-around final and three of the four apparatus finals namely the floor, vault and uneven bars.<\/p>\n<p>Biles arrived at the Japanese capital to seek five gold medals to match the record of the Olympic all-time gymnastics of nine. The superstar had detailed her battles with mental health during the games through her social media handles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simone Biles will contend in the women\u2019s balance beam final on the last day of artistic gymnastics on Tuesday at the Tokyo Olympics. Her name was entailed on the list of eight finalists that were released on Monday.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":42894,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2321,2472,1555,2228,2125,638],"class_list":["post-22708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-olympics","tag-gymnastics","tag-simone-biles","tag-tokyo","tag-tokyo-2020","tag-tokyo-games","tag-tokyo-olympics"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}