Helene Elliott: Simone Biles says she feels really good after winning Core Classic all-around title
HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. — Simone Biles had walked out to the competition floor hundreds of times in hundreds of gyms during her spectacular gymnastics career, but the few steps she took to the blue-carpeted floor at NOW Arena on Saturday represented something new.
The Core Classic would be her first competition since the Tokyo Olympics, when an onset of "the twisties," a sense of spatial disorientation that made it dangerous for her to twist through the air, forced her to withdraw from the team final and all but one individual event final. This would be the first time she'd test her body to see if it remembered how to generate skill and power, the first time she'd test her mind to see whether it would nudge
