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Biles bagged five medals, including four gold,
in her dazzling Olympic debut at Rio four years ago and the
22-year-old is widely expected to surpass Miller's haul of seven
at Tokyo later this year.
"I'm excited about it," Miller, who was in India as an
ambassador for Sunday's Tata Mumbai Marathon, told Reuters in an
interview.
"For me and for so many athletes, we feel that records are made
to be broken. It's how sport thrives, it's how it evolves, and
it's how it progresses.
"It's important for athletes to be inspired to do more and be
more each and every year along the way. I'll be among the fans
cheering her on."
An explosive combination of power, agility and creativity, Biles
has already vaulted into the debate as the greatest gymnast of
all time.
Miller, who won five medals at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics and
two at Atlanta four years later, said she was amazed at how
Biles, the most decorated gymnast in world championship history,
continues to dominate the sport.
"What strikes me is really the incredible amount of difficulty
that she has in her skills combined with the consistency with
which she competes those skills. That's fairly rare," she added.
"A lot of times you have difficult skills but you are not as
consistent, or you're very consistent but you don't have as much
difficulty. She has the combination of both."
USA Gymnastics is still recovering from a scandal that saw
former team doctor Larry Nassar sentenced to up to 300 years in
prison in 2018 after more than 300 women, including Biles,
accused him of sexual abuse.
Miller does not think the scandal would hinder the gymnasts'
performance in Tokyo.
"I think the athletes that are competing are focused on their
gymnastics and their competition," she said. "We want to
celebrate their hard work and all that they're doing, especially
leading into and at the Olympic Games."
Teams in Tokyo will comprise four gymnasts, down from five in
London 2012, which is likely to discourage teams from picking
specialists who could be required in other events in case a team
mate gets injured.
Smaller team sizes should not be a headache for the United
States women's squad, who are eyeing a hat-trick of Olympic
golds at Tokyo, said Miller.
"There are pros and cons but what we as athletes do is we find
out the rules and then we focus on what our best strategy is to
not only make the team but then how best to create a makeup of
the team," she said.
"So, you kind of control what you can control and then you go
out and do the very best you can.
"You never want to have an athlete get injured but it happens.
So you want to make sure that you have enough people on the team
that can compete all four events."
(This story has been refiled to add dropped word in first
paragraph)
(Editing by Peter Rutherford)
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