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Simone Biles is taking one more chance for a gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics!

It has been revealed that the 24-year-old gymnast will be competing in the balance beam finals this week, Deadline reports.

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Simone Biles will not be competing in two more finals at the Tokyo Olympics.

USA Gymnastics just shared a statement on Friday evening (July 30), sharing the news and who will step in the 24-year-old’s place.

She has withdrawn from the finals for vault and uneven bars, but still has floor exercise and balance beam that are up in the air.

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Simone Biles is putting her health first and foremost at the Tokyo Olympics!

The 24-year-old has already won a silver medal in the team event, after she withdrew from the competition after one rotation on vault, due to her mental health.

Now, Simone has withdrawn from the all-around event, which she won gold in at the 2016 Rio Olympics.

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Simone Biles surprised everyone when she withdrew from the Olympics Women’s team gymnastics event on Tuesday (July 27) in Tokyo.

The 24-year-old gymnast’s reason was first revealed as a “medical issue,” but she later cited mental health concern.

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Cody Simpson could be going to the Olympics!

The 23-year-old singer and author shared on Instagram that he has secured a spot at the Australian Olympic trials for the 100 Fly in swimming.

“I just qualified for my first Olympic trials. I’d love to share this personal milestone and let you in on my current journey as an athlete that I’ve kept relatively low key until now,” Cody said on Instagram.

“Growing up competing, and then inevitably having to cut my career short as 13 year old Australian champion when I was given an opportunity in music that I couldn’t refuse,” he continued. “I have had the chance to experience and learn so much as a musician from touring around the world, releasing albums, performing as a leading man on Broadway, publishing a work of poetry, traveling with and speaking at the United Nations on environmental and oceanic matters and much more. For this I will be forever grateful.”

“Now almost exactly 10 years later, here I am once more. For years I had been fuelled by the silent fire in my stomach of returning to the sport of swimming, with the idea that 2020 would be the year I’d try training again,” Cody shared. “After only 5 months back in the water with my incredible coach @hawkebr, I was able to take out a win and secure a spot at next years Australian Olympic trials in the 100 fly. It is my greatest ambition to expand the limit and perceived notion of what’s possible for someone to achieve in a single lifetime, and I’m here to tell you can do absolutely ANYTHING if you are willing to work for it. I’m looking forward to seeing where this all takes me on the long road ahead! 🇦🇺”

The Olympic qualifiers is just the next step to take in order to land a spot on the team that actually goes to the Olympics.

Olympic gold medal-winning swimmer Michael Phelps even reacted to Cody‘s news, commenting, “Lfg!! Congrats mate!!”

If you missed them, check out these hot photos of Cody in just his speedo while out at a pool, practicing his swimming!

The 2020 Summer Olympics have been officially pushed to 2021.

The games were originally slated to kick off on July 24th in Tokyo, Japan but will not be hosted this year due to the current world health crisis.

Prime Minister Abe Shinzo confirmed the news, revealing that he proposed a one year postponement, which was accepted by the International Olympic Committee.

“I proposed to postpone for about a year and (IOC) president [Thomas] Bach responded with 100% agreement,” the Prime Minister said in a statement.

The announcement comes just days after both Canada and Australia said they would not send athletes to the games if they were still held in 2020.

Tonight, the first figure skating event will kick off at the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games with the team event.

Team USA has chosen Nathan Chen and married pairs skaters Alexa Scimeca Knierim and Chris Knierim to rep them on the ice for the event.

So, what exactly is the team event? It’s kind of like the team event in gymnastics at the Summer Olympics.

There will be a short program and free skate is held in each of the four disciplines: men’s, women’s, pairs and ice dance. Skaters are judged as usual, but teams are scored based on placements within their discipline.

So, if a first-place performance would earn a country 10 points, a second-place performance would earn nine points, and so on.

Team USA still has to choose a rep for the ladies and ice dance sections. However, countries are allowed two substitutions, meaning that for two of those three disciplines a different skater or team can be used in the short and free.

After each of the short programs, the top five highest-scoring teams advance to the free program round. At the 2014 Sochi Olympics, Team USA earned a bronze medal for the inaugural event.

You can watch it TONIGHT, starting @ 8PM on NBC.