The seven-time Olympic medalist volition pb a squad of elite athletes crossed the US, celebrating the powerfulness of pistillate athletes and inspiring a caller procreation of gymnasts.
"T-1 time till the GOLD OVER AMERICA TOUR starts! IM SCREAMING," Biles wrote connected Instagram Monday, aft a fig of photos and videos of the gymnasts rehearsing were shared online.
The tour, which volition see an all-star squad featuring Jordan Chiles and Laurie Hernandez, volition halt disconnected astatine 35 cities crossed the state and showcase immoderate of the precise champion gymnasts successful the world.
The archetypal show volition beryllium successful Tucson, Arizona, and the past is successful Boston connected November 7.
"I emotion the athletics of gymnastics and wanted to assistance make a amusement that celebrates the axenic joyousness of performing," said Simone Biles, per the tour's authoritative website.
The tickets sold volition besides beryllium a immense commercialized boost for Biles, who is considered 1 of the astir fashionable sports stars connected the satellite and comes aft a challenging twelvemonth for the 24-year-old.
Biles stunned the satellite by withdrawing from 4 events astatine Tokyo 2020 aft suffering from the twisties -- a intelligence information successful which gymnasts suffer the consciousness of wherever their bodies are successful mid-air.
Despite this, Biles returned and went connected to triumph bronze connected the equilibrium beam, a medal that she said meant "more than each the golds."
Her determination to measurement down from immoderate of the events took the speech of intelligence wellness successful athletics to different level and has inspired different athletes to unfastened up astir the struggles they faced erstwhile competing.
Speaking to NBC's "Today" amusement successful August, Biles said intelligence wellness "should beryllium talked astir a batch more."
"I cognize immoderate of america are going done the aforesaid things and we're ever told to propulsion done it," she added. "But we're each a small spot older present and we tin benignant of talk for ourselves. At the extremity of the day, we're not conscionable entertainment, we're humans and determination are things going connected down the scenes that we're besides trying to juggle with arsenic good connected apical of sports."
It's not yet wide whether Biles volition vie astatine Paris 2024, meaning the circuit could beryllium 1 the past chances for galore radical to spot her execute live.
The tour, which is autarkic of USA Gymnastics, volition besides beryllium a invited interruption for Biles, who precocious testified during a proceeding astir the FBI's handling of the enactment maltreatment probe of erstwhile squad doc Larry Nassar.
Biles blamed some Nassar and the strategy which allowed him to proceed moving for the harm done to aggregate elite gymnasts.
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