Olympic Gold Medal Gymnast Simone Biles Visits Arlington Kids

ARLINGTON, VA — Fresh off announcing that she'll compete in the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, gold medal-winning gymnast Simone Biles was right here in Arlington at Barcroft Sports and Fitness Center to visit some lucky local gymnasts.

Biles is in town because she is promoting the Kellogg's Tour of Gymnastics Champions, which will be at the Verizon Center on Thursday night. She visited members of the Arlington Gymnastics program at Barcroft on Wednesday.

ARLnow.com reported that 25 of the young gymnasts will also be part of the Verizon Center show, participating in the opening act and sharing the stage with some of the Olympians.

The Arlington County Police Department also got a photo op with the Olympian, and posted it to Twitter.

ACPD had to call in some backup today from 5x #olympic medalist @Simone_Biles who is in Arlington on the #kelloggstour! pic.twitter.com/H42mzzhbbh
— ArlingtonCountyPD (@ArlingtonVaPD) November 9, 2016

Biles led the U.S. gymnastics team to a dominant performance in Rio this summer. She won the gold medal for the individual all-around, vault and floor routines, and was part of the gold medal-winning "Final Five" team. In addition, she won the bronze medal on the balance beam. She passed Shannon Miller as the most decorated American gymnast of all time.

Simone Biles, the 2016 Olympic gold medalist, was at Barcroft Sports & Fitness Center to meet and greet our own Arlington Aerials today pic.twitter.com/lOirkphSXH
— ARL VA Parks & Rec (@arlparksrec) November 9, 2016

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