Simone Biles comically crawled at one point on Sunday at the Paris Olympics . She hopped on one leg. She even landed on her knees in a vault warmup.

It seemed she would do anything to take the weight off a lower left leg injury that she appeared to sustain at the end of a tumbling sequence in floor exercise practice.

When she had her ankle area taped after her solid rotation on the balance beam, this became the story: