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Fans Were in Awe of Simone Biles' Floor Routine That Featured Taylor Swift, Beyoncé

Josh Wilson

Simone Biles competes on the floor during the U.S. Olympic Team Gymnastics Trials at Target Center. Mandatory Credit: Matt Krohn-USA TODAY Sports
Simone Biles competes on the floor during the U.S. Olympic Team Gymnastics Trials at Target Center. Mandatory Credit: Matt Krohn-USA TODAY Sports / Matt Krohn-USA TODAY Sports

Simone Biles stole the show on the first night of Gymnastic US Olympic Team Trials in Minneapolis, Minn. on Friday. Two days of trials remain, but Biles leads the field with a score of 58.900. Following her are her teammates, Jordan Chiles (56.400) and Suni Lee (56.025).

Biles was in second place after her first event, uneven bars. She moved up to first after her ground routine, and then scored even higher on the last event of the night, the vault.

Fans were dazzled by the ground routine performance, which had a soundtrack that featured Taylor Swift and Beyonce:

Leading into the Olympics in France, Biles tapped a French dancer, Gregory Milan, to choreograph her routine.

Her performance was one of the needed highlights of a night that featured disappointing injuries.

With her leading performance on Friday night, Biles is positioned to make a strong run at qualifying for the 2024 team the US will send to Paris to compete in the Olympic Games.

The top-scoring gymnast makes the team that the United States will send to Paris automatically, and four more are selected by a committee after the trials.

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JOSH WILSON

Josh Wilson is the news director of the Breaking and Trending News team at Sports Illustrated. Before joining SI in 2024, he worked for FanSided in a variety of roles, most recently as senior managing editor of the brand’s flagship site. He has also served as a general manager of Sportscasting, the sports arm of a start-up sports media company, where he oversaw the site’s editorial and business strategy. Wilson has a bachelor’s degree in mass communications from SUNY Cortland and a master’s in accountancy from the Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois. He loves a good nonfiction book and enjoys learning and practicing Polish. Wilson lives in Chicago but was raised in upstate New York. He spent most of his life in the Northeast and briefly lived in Poland, where he ate an unhealthy amount of pastries for six months.

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