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Simone Biles revealed she had provided her USA team-mates phrases of encouragement as she withdrew from the remainder of their gymnastics remaining.

Biles had posted her worst ever rating on the vault through the first equipment spherical of the workforce remaining when she all of a sudden left the world with her coach.

Whereas she returned moments later, she was seen giving her team-mates a pep discuss.

Requested what she had mentioned, Biles replied: ‘You’ve got executed all of the coaching, you are able to do this with out me and it will likely be simply advantageous.’

She sat out of the opposite 5 occasions, with USA athletes Suni Lee, Jordan Chiles and Grace McCallum choosing up silver in her absence. The Russian Olympic Committee landed gold.

‘For me, I’m proud for a way the women stepped up and did what they needed to do,’ added Biles, probably the most embellished gymnast in US historical past.

‘I owe this to the women, it has nothing to do with me. I’m very happy with them.’

Her team-mate Chiles mentioned, nevertheless, the silver medal ‘is certainly for her’.

‘If it wasn’t for her we wouldn’t be right here, the place we’re proper now,’ mentioned Chiles.

‘We wouldn’t be silver Olympic medalists — due to who she is as a person, so kudos to you girlie.’

Biles, 24, mentioned she was ‘dealing with things internally’ and that there was no bodily subject that brought on her to tug out of the occasion, giving hope she will have the ability to proceed competing on the Tokyo 2020 Video games.

She mentioned she hopes to return for Thursday’s all-around remaining.

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