Nothing will stop the Olympian from competing — not even a kidney stone! Simone Biles Competing at the World Championships 'Less than 24 Hours' After Hospital Visit Simone Biles won’t let anything — not even a kidney stone — get in her way of winning a championship! On Friday, the four-time Olympic gold medalist, 21, revealed that she was in the hospital, just one day before she is set to compete in the 2018 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. Get push notifications with news, features and more. “Nothing like a late night ER visit less than 24 hrs before world championships,” Biles wrote on Twitter. “This kidney stone can wait…. doing it for my team! I’ll be gucci girls!” Alongside the message, the star shared two photos of herself in the hospital: one smiling selfie and another shot of her legs in the hospital bed. simone-biles-1 Simone Biles’ Twitter photo | Credit: Simone Biles/Twitter She also shared the selfie to her Instagram and captioned the shot, “This kidney stone has nothing on world championships.” Since USA Gymnastics announced the team on Oct. 12, Biles has spent her time training for the World Championships alongside teammates Kara Eaker, Morgan Hurd, Grace McCallum, Riley McCusker and Ragan Smith. Competition begins on Oct. 27 for the women, starting with qualification rounds, and will wrap up on Nov. 4. The top three countries who medal in the team competition will advance to the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, according to USA Gymnastics. Biles has previously said she looks forward to returning to the Olympic stage in two years. “Hopefully, if everything goes as planned, that is the goal,” Biles said during a Today show appearance in August, after she swept the overall competition and all four individual events during the U.S. Gymnastics Championships. The last female gymnast to win both the all-around and individual event titles was Dominique Dawes, who accomplished the feat in 1994 — nearly three years before Biles was born. U.S. Gymnastics Championships 2018 - Day 4 Simone Biles during the U.S. Gymnastics Championships | Credit: Tim Bradbury/Getty While appearing on the morning show, Biles also discussed the teal leotard she wore at the championships, and the matching jacket she wore on Today — both a tribute to sexual assault survivors. Biles was one of the hundreds of gymnasts who accused Larry Nassar, the former USA Gymnastics team doctor, of sexual abuse. “So the color teal is for sexual abuse survivors, and I think it’s very special,” she explained. “I got to wear it this morning and I also got to wear it day two of competition for all of us to unite and for me to support all of them.” RELATED VIDEO: Simone Biles Accuses Former USA Gymnastics Doctor Larry Nassar of Sexual Abuse After coming forward in January with her own experience of sexual abuse by Nassar, Biles opened up to PEOPLE about the process of moving on. “I feel good and I feel a bit of relief because I don’t have to keep it in anymore,” she explained to PEOPLE. “I have my family supporting me, friends and my group of people I rely on supporting me … But it’s not easy for any of us to go through.”<doc-sep>Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window) Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Click to share on Flipboard (Opens in new window) Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Simone Biles was in an emergency room due to a kidney stone late Friday night and early Saturday morning in Qatar, less than 24 hours before she and the U.S. women compete in qualifying at the world championships in Doha. “Nothing like a late night ER visit less than 24 hrs before world championships,” her account tweeted. “This kidney stone can wait…. doing it for my team! I’ll be gucci girls.” Biles and her teammates begin qualifying at 11 a.m. ET (NBCSports.com/live and the NBC Sports app). Biles is on the start list for all four apparatuses. Biles could miss an earlier practice Saturday morning. The U.S. won the last five combined Olympic and world team titles dating to 2011. Biles won all three world all-around titles in the last Olympic cycle and can break the female record with a fourth gold Thursday. Correction: An earlier version of this post incorrectly stated U.S. women’s qualifying started at 4 a.m. local time Saturday. OlympicTalk is on Apple News. Favorite us! MORE: Gymnastics Worlds TV/Stream Schedule<doc-sep>Simone Biles is set to return to international competition tomorrow at the 2018 World Championships. In practices in Doha, she’s looked unstoppable, hitting routine after routine. Biles is one of the rare gymnasts that garners applause during podium training sessions as she did here on vault. It seemed like nothing could stop her inevitable march to her fourth world all-around title. Not even a kidney stone. Advertisement In the last hour, Biles posted a photo of herself in a hospital room, captioned, “this kidney stone has nothing on world championships.” On Tw itter, she makes it sound like she hasn’t passed the stone yet, and won’t until after she’s done competing. Biles, kidney stone notwithstanding, is set to perform tomorrow with the rest of the U.S. team during the qualification competition at the world championships.<doc-sep>
Simone Biles is a force of nature, and even a hospital visit can't stop her from doing what she does best — gymnastics! The four-time Olympic gold medalist tweeted on Friday that she was admitted to the emergency room less than a day before the 2018 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. nothing like a late night ER visit less than 24 hrs before world championships this kidney stone can wait.... doing it for my team! ️ I’ll be gucci girls ! pic.twitter.com/rKkvuEQrKc — Simone Biles (@Simone_Biles) October 26, 2018 The 21-year-old revealed a kidney stone was to blame for the last-minute hospital visit — but seemed to be in good spirits from the looks of her post! "Nothing like a late night ER visit less than 24 hrs before world championships. This kidney stone can wait.... doing it for my team," Biles said in a tweet with a fist and heart emojis along with two photos from the hospital. "I’ll be gucci girls!" she continued. Biles posted the same smiling pic of herself in a hospital bed to Instagram, where friends and fans posted words of support for the Olympian. "Sending you lots of love. You're gonna kill it," Biles' former Final Five teammate Madison Kocian wrote with a heart emoji. Retired champion gymnast Mary Lou Retton commented with a heart emoji, "Speedy recovery girl." USA Gymnastics announced the team for the World Championships event on Oct. 12. Biles made history in August after becoming the first woman to win five all-around titles at the U.S. Gymnastics championships — and did it wearing a teal leotard as a symbol of support for survivors of sexual assault. In January, Biles claimed that she was sexually abused by former Olympic team doctor Larry Nassar. She discussed Nassar and his sentence in an interview with Hoda Kotb on TODAY saying, "It’s very hard for someone to go through what I’ve gone through recently and it’s very hard to talk about." It's clear that nothing — even a kidney stone — can stop this powerful woman from achieving anything she sets her mind to. Go, Simone!