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Simone Biles posted “my life isn’t real” Taylor Swift sang “Today was a fairytale”. Same day: Ok universe I’m 👂👀
The four-time Rio Olympic champion endured a large kidney stone she named the “Doha Pearl,” coming back with the top all-around qualifying score thus far and all but guaranteeing a place in all four apparatus finals. The last gymnast to run the table like that in qualifying? Biles in 2013.
“I heard roller coasters may help kidney stones,” Biles said, according to the International Gymnastics Federation, “and I am basically my own little roller coaster out there.”
Biles said she felt stomach pain on her right side for two days before getting it checked out.
She thought it was her appendix before tests showed the stone that was too large to pass.