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Afterwards, Biles spoke with her coach and a trainer before walking off the competition floor, leaving teammates Suni Lee, Jordan Chiles and Grace McCallum to finish the event. Team USA ultimately placed in second, winning a silver medal, while Russia's team took the gold.
The United States has medaled in every women's gymnastics team event at the Olympics since 1992.
USA Gymnastics said in a statement Tuesday that Biles withdrew \"due to a medical issue.\" The Ohio native, who has previously said she feels \"the weight of the world on my shoulders at times,\" later told reporters that she was not injured but wasn’t in the right headspace to continue.
\"No injuries, thankfully, and that's why I took a step back because I didn't want to do something silly out there and get injured,\" Biles said during a press conference following the competition Tuesday. \"So I thought it was best if these girls took over and did the rest of the job, which they absolutely did.\"
\"Today has been really stressful,\" she added.
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USA Gymnastics confirmed to ABC News on Wednesday that if Biles pulls out of the remaining events, teammate MyKayla Skinner would replace her in the vault final but no other gymnast from Team USA could step in for the floor, beam or bars competitions. Only two qualifying gymnasts from each country may participate in each event final.
The 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo are taking place under a regional state of emergency and stringent restrictions due to rising cases of COVID-19. The Games were supposed to be held last summer but were postponed because of the pandemic. All spectators -- domestic and foreign -- have been banned from Olympic venues in Tokyo during the Games, in an effort to reduce the risk of infection. Meanwhile, athletes and all those in close proximity have to undergo daily testing for the virus.
Biles told reporters Tuesday that \"it's been a long year\" and the Games \"as a whole\" have been \"really stressful.\"
\"I think we're just a little bit too stressed out,\" she said. \"But we should be out here having fun, and sometimes that's not the case.\"
ABC News' Rachel Katz and Alexandra Svokos contributed to this report.
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