COLUMBUS, Ohio – The last time Simone Biles left a gymnastics competition, she had five Olympic medals – four of them gold – to show for it.
Her haul from the Rio Games capped off a remarkable stretch in which Biles also won three world all-around titles in the years leading up to the 2016 Olympics. At 19, she’d established herself as arguably the best her sport has ever seen.
At 21, Biles thinks she’s better.
"I would probably beat her,” she said of the 2016 version of herself, one who had claimed 14 world championship medals before she’d even made an Olympic team.