FILE PHOTO: Tokyo 2020 Olympics - Gymnastics - Artistic - Women's Team - Final - Ariake Gymnastics Centre, Tokyo, Japan - July 27, 2021. Simone Biles of the United States wearing a protective face mask gestures. REUTERS/Lindsey Wasson/File Photo
TOKYO (Reuters) - When Simone Biles decided she was dropping out of the team gymnastics competition and told her teammates, for a few seconds they were in shock.
Then the remaining three in the team competition - all Olympic novices - pulled themselves together, got out on the floor and the beam and uneven bars, and won a silver medal for the United States and for Biles, the powerhouse and mentor they all looked up to.
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