Biles poised to cement her legacy

LOS ANGELES — Simone Biles is headed to Paris and poised to cement her legacy as gymnastics' Greatest of All Time and an Olympic icon who transcends her sport in both triumph and defeat.

The diminutive dynamo dazzled at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games, winning gold in the all-around, vault, floor exercise and team events.

She arrived at the pandemic-delayed Tokyo Olympics with superstar billing and history in her sights, but withdrew from the majority of her events, as she struggled with the disorienting and "petrifying" mental block that gymnasts call the "twisties".