AFP, Minneapolis :
Four-time Olympic gold medallist Simone Biles is headed to the Paris Games with a resounding all-around victory at the US gymnastics trials on Sunday.
Biles capped her trials with another electrifying floor routine, her high-flying tumbling bringing the crowd to its feet.
She piled up 117.225 over two days of competition to earn an automatic berth on the five-strong team for Paris.
Three years after a bout of the disorienting “twisties” cut short Biles’s Tokyo Games campaign, the gymnast considered the best of all time will return to the Olympic stage looking stronger than ever.
“I knew I wasn’t done after the performances in Tokyo,” Biles said. “I knew I’d be back.”
Since returning to competition last August, she has captured world championships all-around gold and three weeks ago she grabbed her ninth national all-around title.
Biles launched her night with a soaring version of her Yurchenko double pike vault, and even though she skittered backwards a few steps on landing she scored 15.50 points for a vault so difficult that no other woman has attempted it in competition.