Simone Biles live updates: Biles leads all-around gymnastics standings at Paris Olympics 2024 despite injury scare See More!!

Simone Biles finished her first day of competition at the Paris Olympics at the conclusion of the second subdivision of qualifications, but one of her signature skills made an appearance in Bercy Arena a bit later in subdivision three thanks to Panamanian gymnast Hillary Heron.

She also submitted an original skill on the uneven bars, which will be added to the Code of Points under her name if she successfully executes it in Paris. Biles did not attempt her new bars element during qualifications, but U.S. women’s gymnastics technical lead Chellsie Memmel said the plan is for Biles to do the skill later in her Olympic schedule.

Simone Biles did not let an injury scare slow her down on her long-awaited return to Olympic competition, posting a superb all-around total of 59.566 during Paris 2024 qualifying on Sunday in front of a star-studded crowd at the Bercy Arena.

After impressing on the balance beam Biles appeared to injure her left leg during warmups on the floor exercise. She was then tended to by doctors and left the floor briefly, before returning to have her ankle taped.

Not that she let that impact her performance. She scored a 14.6 with her floor routine before posting a sensational 15.3 on the vault, performing her breath-taking Yurchenko double pike vault. She concluded her performance by scoring 14.433 on the uneven bars as the United States took a commanding early lead in the team competition.

“She is an outstanding gymnast and person — just, like, overall human — so what she was able to do with looking like she, you know, had some soreness or something in her lower leg. It is remarkable.

“Simone was great. She was outstanding. That’s how she trains. I mean, she comes out and she comes into the gym and she does her job. She did that (in training) and she just did it again here. She’s fun to watch.”