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t m c ยป p u l s e | au g u s t 2 0 1 6 4 OLYMPIC R EACH The Texas Medical Center community stretches all the way to Rio. TMC athletes, professionals and patients are participating in the Olympic Summer Games. S I M O N E B I L E S Sport | Gymnastics D ays after securing a spot on the 2016 U.S. Olympic Women's Gymnastics team, Simone Biles prac- ticed her flips, twists and tumbles at the World Champions Centre, her family's new 52,000-square-foot gym in Spring, Texas. "It's the training that we put in and the work that keeps us healthy, mentally and physically," said Biles, 19, during a mid-July press conference at the center, where media watched her perform on the floor, parallel bars and vault. The Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro will be Biles' first appearance at the Olympics, but the 4-foot-9 gymnast has been busy racking up medals for years. She won three consecutive world all-around championships and a total of 14 world championship medals. That's more than any U.S. athlete ever. Her training routine is a vital component of her past, present and future success. During the summer, Biles trains twice a day, 9 a.m. to noon and 3 p.m. to 6 p.m., five days a week with her coach, Aimee Boorman. She uses her three-hour breaks to rest and take care of her body, doing any type of physical therapy she needs to stay in peak physical shape. "We do preventative physical therapy to make sure the body stays healthy," Boorman said. "I want to head [injuries] off at the pass. I don't want to worry about treating an injury. I want to treat it before it's an injury." As the official health care provider for the World Champions Centre, doctors from Houston Methodist Orthopedics & Sports Medicine are able to help Boorman do just that. Scott Rand, M.D., Boorman's long- time friend and Biles' primary care sports medicine specialist at Houston Methodist said her rigorous and physi- cally demanding regimen keeps him up at night. "Gymnasts put their bodies through an incredible number of things that normal humans just can't do," Rand A N