Simone Biles takes bronze medal on return to Olympic gymnastics competition

Biles' last week withdrew from the women’s team competition and four other Olympic finals citing a desire to protect her mental health

Simone Biles embraces USA teammate Sunisa Lee after dismounting from the balance beam during the artistic gymnastics women's apparatus final at the Tokyo Olympics. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Simone Biles won her seventh Olympic medal in the Ariake Arena in Tokyo on Tuesday and even by her own extraordinary standards it may be destined to be her most coveted of the lot.

The 24-year-old fought off a spatial awareness issue known as the ‘twisties’ to take bronze on the women’s beam behind Chinese teenagers Chenchen Yuan and Tang Xijing.