All eyes on Simone Biles as she goes for women’s all-around gold at the Paris Olympics

Paris CNN —

With the first chapter of Simone Biles’ comeback at the Olympics already complete, the next is ready to be written.

After USA took team gold earlier this week, making Biles the most decorated American gymnast ever at the Games, the 27-year-old will compete again in the all-around final for a chance to win her ninth Olympic medal – and sixth gold.

All this comes not long since Biles said she had considered walking away from gymnastics having experienced a mental block called “the twisties” at the Tokyo Olympics. There are no signs that she is hampered by the same issues this time, and on Tuesday, she led the US team to an emphatic gold-medal-winning score of 171.296.

“I started off with therapy this morning,” Biles said on Tuesday after the team event. “That was super exciting. I told my therapist I was feeling calm and ready.”

She ended the day alone in the center of Paris’ Bercy Arena, completing her floor routine to rapturous applause.

At 12:15 p.m. ET on Thursday, Biles will return to the same venue hoping to take her second all-around victory alongside teammate and friend Suni Lee, the defending champion who is on a comeback path of her own having been sidelined with kidney disease last year.

From left, American gymnasts Jordan Chiles, Hezly Rivera, Simone Biles, Jade Carey and Suni Lee celebrate after winning the gold medal at the Paris Olympics on Tuesday, July 30. Biles waves the American flag after winning gold. Team USA won gold at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics but finished with the silver three years ago in Tokyo. Team USA celebrates as Biles finishes her floor exercise at the end of the competition. Biles needed only 8.865 points to claim gold. She scored a 14.666. Lee performs her floor