Simone Biles leaps into Olympics action but USA’s gap over rivals narrows

Biles leads all around qualifiers but US make minor errorsShifting picture of women’s gymnastics landscape emergesAs Simone Biles walked off the podium following her opening floor routine of her Tokyo Olympics, she laughed bitterly to herself. She had overpowered her third tumbling pass so much that she ended up rebounding the floor and flying so far out of bounds that she cleared the raised floor. She was not happy. But what initially seemed to be an aberration in her first rotation of US