Gymnastics coach and French Olympian Cecile Landi works with four-time Olympic champion Simone Biles at her gym in Houston, Texas. She spoke about the Tokyo 2020 postponement, why she's prouder of her coaching career than her athletic career, and the all-around strength of Biles.

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As Simone Biles put it: it’s the end of an era.
This week, her coach since late 2017 Cecile Landi, a 1996 Olympian for France, reported to Athens, Georgia, to begin her new role as co-head coach at the University of Georgia got underway.
“Gang’s all here!” the team posted

Jul 28, 2024; Paris, France; Simone Biles of the United States hugs coach Cecile Landi after women’s qualification during the Paris 2024 Olympic Summer Games at Bercy Arena. Mandatory Credit: Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports

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Cecile Landi, coach of Simone Biles, begins new role as co-head at University of Georgia

1996 Olympian Cecile Canqueteau-Landi and Ryan Roberts are set to be the new co-head coaches of the University of Georgia women’s gymnastics team, the school announced Thursday (25 April).
Canqueteau-Landi has coached seven-time Olympic medallist Simone Biles since 2017, including at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Canqueteau-Landi still plans to

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August 25, 2023; San Jose, California, USA; Simone Biles (left) is congratulated by coach Cecile Canqueteau-Landi (right) after performing on the balance beam during the 2023 U.S. Gymnastics Championships at SAP Center. Mandatory Credit: Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports

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Cecile Canqueteau-Landi, coach of Simone Biles, named new University of Georgia women’s gymnastics co-head coach

As four-time Olympic champion gymnast Simone Biles stands around the chalk bucket between turns on the apparatus with her Houston-based teammates, of whom Tokyo 2020 Olympic silver medallist Jordan Chiles is closest in age at four years her junior, something feels a little different.
At 26, the newlywed Biles says

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ANTWERP, BELGIUM - OCTOBER 04: Simone Biles of Team United States celebrates after her routine on Floor Exercise during the Women's Team Final on Day Five of the 2023 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships on October 04, 2023 in Antwerp, Belgium. (Photo by Naomi Baker/Getty Images)

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In early August, a few hundred fans dotted the upper bowl of Now Arena in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, a Chicago suburb, to watch official practice ahead of the 2023 U.S. Classic gymnastics competition.
The event was to be seven-time Olympic medallist Simone Biles’ first since the Tokyo 2020 Games in

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Cecile Landi loves a challenge.
When the Olympic gymnast from Atlanta 1996 \- then known by her maiden name Cecile Canqueteau - decided to move from coaching at the French National Training Centre to the United States in 2004, she had no shortage of doubters including the head of the

TOKYO, JAPAN - AUGUST 03: Simone Biles of Team United States and coach Cecile Canqueteau-Landi embrace during the Women's Balance Beam Final on day eleven of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at Ariake Gymnastics Centre on August 03, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images)

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Cecile Landi says Simone Biles "has opened my eyes on a lot of things"

As U.S. gymnast Jordan Chiles marched through her 2021 season, making clear that she was finally making good on years of promise and an always visible, undeniable talent, she needed a reminder from a friend – Simone Biles.
“The best piece of advice I've gotten, it'd probably be during \[U.S.\]

TAMPA, FLORIDA - AUGUST 21:  Jordan Chiles competes in the uneven bars during the 2022 US Gymnastics Championships at Amalie Arena on August 21, 2022 in Tampa, Florida. (Photo by Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images)

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Jordan Chiles is finding herself: "I still haven't hit my peak"

2020 Olympic vault gold medallist Rebeca Andrade of Brazil is participating in the Brazilian Gymnastics National Championships. The competition, which is her first since the Tokyo Games, begins Friday (1 October) and fans can watch the competition live through the Brazilian Olympic Committee website. Andrade’s competitive session begins at 2:30pm

TOKYO, JAPAN - AUGUST 02: Rebeca Andrade of Team Brazil in action during the Women's Floor Final on day ten of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at Ariake Gymnastics Centre on August 02, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images)

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Rounding Off: Olympic champion Rebeca Andrade set for first competition since Tokyo 2020

WATCH: The innovative French women compete their optional floor routines at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta. Overall, the team finished in eighth place. Cecile Canqueteau, now Cecile Landi, led the rotation for Team France, scoring 9.700. At Tokyo 2020, she coached Americans Simone Biles and Jordan Chiles.

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Team France perform the floor exercise during the women's team optionals at Atlanta 1996

Earlier this year, Grace McCallum thought it was over. Her dreams of competing at this month’s Olympic Games in Tokyo were put in serious jeopardy after a fall off the balance beam in January.
“I thought my Olympic dreams were gone because the recovery was going to be so long,”

ST LOUIS, MISSOURI - JUNE 25: Grace McCallum competes on floor during day 2 of the women's 2021 U.S. Olympic Trials - Gymnastics at America’s Center on June 25, 2021 in St Louis, Missouri. (Photo by Carmen Mandato/Getty Images)

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Rounding Off: Grace McCallum says “I thought my Olympic dreams were gone”

With Simone Biles around, the U.S. women’s gymnastics team – and by extension national team high performance director Tom Forster – doesn’t have much to worry about on the competition floor.
That’s because Biles, the sport’s third-most decorated athlete in history, gives Team USA a huge advantage every time she

STUTTGART, GERMANY - OCTOBER 08: Simone Biles and Team USA enter the Arena ahead of the Women's Team Final on Day 5 of the FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Championships on October 08, 2019 in Stuttgart, Germany. (Photo by Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images)

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