Simone Biles can't be replaced: If the gymnast drops out of her individual events, here's what will happen
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Simone Biles pulled out of the gymnastics team finals in Tokyo this week, a decision she said left her feeling "super frustrated." Biles said she was physically fine, but decided to withdraw due to mental health reasons. There are still several gymnastics events left, and Biles could return. But if she doesn't, there are some events that no other U.S. gymnast can compete in. Here's why.
Biles pulled out before several Olympic events occurred. The first one she missed was the team finals, in which gymnasts from each team complete in each of four events: vault, balance beam, uneven bars and floor exercise.Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.
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