Gymnastics Star Simone Biles Named AP Female Athlete of the Year a Third Time After Dazzling Return

U.S. gymnast Simone Biles poses with her bronze medal for the artistic gymnastics women's balance beam apparatus at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo on Aug. 3, 2021. Jae C. Hong/AP Photo

There were jitters, of course. Considering all that happened, how could there not be?

When Simone Biles walked onto the floor at a suburban Chicago arena in late July for her first gymnastics competition in two years, she knew plenty of people were wondering how it was going to go.