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It’s wheels up forSimone Bilesas she heads to the Tokyo Olympics.
“TOKYO BOUNDw/ your new pilots 💙✈️,” Biles wrote on her Instagram.
The athlete — who will be competing in a team alongside Sunisa Lee, Jordan Chiles and Grace McCallum — also posted a picture of herself from the aircraft’s cabin.
“@TeamUSA is taking the #RoadToTokyo to the skies –next stop, Japan!” she captioned the snap.
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Last month, Bilesopened up to PEOPLEabout what she’s looking forward to in Tokyo.
“I’m excited to be in an atmosphere where everybody kind of wants the same thing and is striving for perfection and they’re so dedicated and they’ve been trying so hard,” she said. “Soperseverance is what draws me to the Olympics, personally. I think that’s what I’m most excited for.”
In a recent cover story forWSJ. Magazine’s digital issue, Biles revealed that she had actuallyquestioned her own athletic prowessfollowing her last Olympics performance.
“In 2016,I thought I’d hit the peak of my career, and I was like, ‘How can I get any better than that?'” she shared, adding of her time after Rio, “And so I was really nervous walking into the gym.”
Despite her past insecurities, Biles persisted and focused on her craft. Before making the U.S. Women’s Olympic Gymnastics Team, she became the first woman toland the risky Yurchenko double pikeat the U.S. Classic.
“Now I can enjoy my gymnastics. It’s really up to me,” she toldWSJ. Magazine. “And that probably also comes along with how many titles I’ve wonand everything I’ve established.”
source: people.com
