On The Road To Rio: Simone Biles Is Your New Gymnastics Super Star

Simone Biles is on the road to Rio.

2015 P&G Gymnastics Championships - Women's Final

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Simone Biles, an 18-year-old from Texas, won her third national gymnastics championship on Saturday, according to reports. Her collection of medals now includes the last two world all-around titles, under a banner marked “Countdown to Rio!”

Via Clutch:

Even though she’s a fan favorite, her coaches don’t want her to become distracted with the attention.

“We never want this to happen to Simone,” said national team coordinator Martha Karolyi, who said the trick for Biles now was to avoid getting distracted “by being named Superman, or whatever.”

Biles, for her part, seems happy to show Karolyi she’s mastering that too. Going into the national championships, she still said that as far as Rio goes, her eyes were just on “making the team.” In 2013, the first year she became a senior, she had said she’d hoped to make the world team but didn’t expect to win the all-around title there. Nor did she think she would be able to repeat that fluke a year later, until she did it.

Now that Biles is on the road to Rio, her coach is most concerned with keeping her focused and injury free.

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