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Simone Biles will not follow Aimee Boorman to Florida, report says

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When Simone Biles returns to training, it won’t be with her longtime coach, Aimee Boorman, according to the Houston Chronicle.

Boorman decided before the Rio Olympics that she planned to leave the Biles’ Texas gym to work at a Florida gym and told her pupil after competition ended in Brazil, according to the report.

Boorman went public with the news two weeks later.

“It still makes me sad to know that she won’t coach me anymore,” Biles said last week, according to the newspaper. “But I’m excited for her journey to see where it takes her and coaching other elite kids.