Simone Biles to return to training with eye on 2020 Olympics
Simone Biles
Simone Biles has largely spent the past year working with different charities. (Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for The Buoniconti Fund to Cure Paralysis)
Itâs a great time for Team USA gymnastics. Less than a week after 16-year-old American Morgan Hurd upset the international favorites to win the all-around title at worlds in Montreal  2016 Olympic phenom  Simone Biles  announced  she  will return to full-time training on Nov. 1 after just over a year off.  Her  ultimate goal is to compete at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.
âItâs going to be rough â the 20-year-old told NBC Sports on Thursday  noting  she âll also be employing a new coach  who  she âll name later. âBut the muscle memory is there because Iâve come and Iâve played in the gym. All of my skills are basically still there. There are a couple of skills  like on [balance] beam  that I havenât done yet  like a dismount  because why would I just chuck that? Thereâs no way. And I havenât vaulted since the Olympics.â
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 Biles  is giving  herself  plenty of time to get back into top form compared to previous Olympians  including 2016 teammates Gabby Douglas and Aly Raisman  who took more than two years off after the 2012 Olympics in London to begin training for last summerâs Games in Rio de Janeiro.
 Biles   whose combined total of 19 world championships and Olympic medals make  her  the most decorated American gymnast ever  said  her  immediate goal is to begin competing on some apparatuses by mid-July  but by the P&G Championships in August to start competing in the all-around category again.
As for up-and-comers like Hurd   Biles  is complimentary.
â[Hurd] is still fairly young  and  she  handled the pressure because  she âs never been on a stage like that â  Biles  said.
Hurd wonât be the only competition that has emerged while  Biles  has spent the last year traveling and promoting several charities. Olympic alternate Ragan Smith  17  has stepped up  her  game  as well  winning the U.S. championship to assert  herself  as a favorite going into worlds. Smith was unable to compete  however  due to a last-minute ankle injury  she  sustained while warming up on the vault.
 Biles  may get a chance to mingle with both if  she  chooses to participate in a U.S. national team camp in January. Right now   she  said  she âll âprobablyâ attend  but  she  wonât be doing anything intensive if  she  goes.
â[Iâd go] just to get back in the swing of things â  Biles  told NBC Sports. âAt least Iâll be back in the rhythm to just go in there and do whatever I need to do. And be with the national team coaches so they can get me up to date on all the new rules and everything.â
[TGT]  has largely spent the past year working with different charities. (Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for The Buoniconti Fund to Cure Paralysis)
Itâs a great time for Team USA gymnastics. Less than a week after 16-year-old American Morgan Hurd upset the international favorites to win the all-around title at worlds in Montreal  2016 Olympic phenom   [TGT] announced   [TGT]   will return to full-time training on Nov. 1 after just over a year off.   [TGT]   ultimate goal is to compete at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.
âItâs going to be rough â the 20-year-old told NBC Sports on Thursday  noting   [TGT]  âll also be employing a new coach  who   [TGT]  âll name later. âBut the muscle memory is there because Iâve come and Iâve played in the gym. All of my skills are basically still there. There are a couple of skills  like on [balance] beam  that I havenât done yet  like a dismount  because why would I just chuck that? Thereâs no way. And I havenât vaulted since the Olympics.â
 [Simone Biles not â ashamedâ to say  she  has ADHD after anti-doping database hack]
  [TGT] is giving  herself  plenty of time to get back into top form compared to previous Olympians  including 2016 teammates Gabby Douglas and Aly Raisman  who took more than two years off after the 2012 Olympics in London to begin training for last summerâs Games in Rio de Janeiro.
 Biles   whose combined total of 19 world championships and Olympic medals make  her  the most decorated American gymnast ever  said  her  immediate goal is to begin competing on some apparatuses by mid-July  but by the P&G Championships in August to start competing in the all-around category again.
As for up-and-comers like Hurd   Biles  is complimentary.
â[Hurd] is still fairly young  and  she  handled the pressure because  she âs never been on a stage like that â  Biles  said.
Hurd wonât be the only competition that has emerged while  Biles  has spent the last year traveling and promoting several charities. Olympic alternate Ragan Smith  17  has stepped up  her  game  as well  winning the U.S. championship to assert  herself  as a favorite going into worlds. Smith was unable to compete  however  due to a last-minute ankle injury  she  sustained while warming up on the vault.
 Biles  may get a chance to mingle with both if  she  chooses to participate in a U.S. national team camp in January. Right now   she  said  she âll âprobablyâ attend  but  she  wonât be doing anything intensive if  she  goes.
â[Iâd go] just to get back in the swing of things â  Biles  told NBC Sports. âAt least Iâll be back in the rhythm to just go in there and do whatever I need to do. And be with the national team coaches so they can get me up to date on all the new rules and everything.â