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Simone Biles Is Back at the Olympics, and This Time Is Different
Follow our Olympics coverage in the lead-up to the Paris Games. One went on when she probably should have stopped. The other stopped when she knew she couldn’t go on. In the 25 years in between, women’s gymnastics has tried to find its balance. In 1996, 18 …