Aiming for her fourth world all-around title,
Biles piled up 60.965 points and even had a vault, 'The Biles',
named after her, USA Gymnastics said.
As she had insisted in a tweet on Friday, the kidney stone
problem, which kept her in the emergency room for several hours
less than 24 hours before she competed, was no showstopper.
The American was not only first in the all-around but also
vault, beam and floor qualifying and second in uneven bars
through five of the qualifying groups.
That she went ahead with the competition was not surprising,
said U.S. team high performance director Tom Forster.
"She's Simone, you would expect the same out of a Michael Jordan
or a Tiger Woods and that's who she is in our sport," Forster
said.
Despite the pain, Biles had a sense of humor about the episode.
"I heard roller-coasters may help kidney stones and I am
basically my own little roller-coaster out there," she said
after competing on Saturday.
"It has been a rough 24 hours but I am definitely better than
yesterday. Yesterday I was kind of crawling on the floor. Today
I can stand, so it's better.
"Without my team mates I don't think I would have the confidence
to go out there and do the routines I did. I am here for the
team."
Because the competition is important to her, Biles said she
planned to wait until after the championships to deal with the
kidney stone, which means she will likely be in pain throughout
the next seven days.
Winner of four gold medals and a bronze at the 2016 Rio
Olympics, the 10-times world champion had taken 2017 off before
successfully returning to competition earlier this year.
Her performance and that of team mate Morgan Hurd put the United
States in first place in qualifying, well ahead of Japan.
(Reporting by Gene Cherry in Wilson, North Carolina; editing by
Ken Ferris/Greg Stutchbury)
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