When Simone Biles begins her comeback in earnest next month, she’ll be training under a new coach -- Laurent Landi -- who coached one of her Olympic teammates, according to the Houston Chronicle.
Landi, a 39-year-old former French gymnast, guided Rio uneven bars silver medalist Madison Kocian at the Dallas-area gym WOGA, along with wife Cecile.
"[Landi] was in Dallas, which is not far away, and had recently left WOGA, and I had worked with alongside him and know how he is with athletes,” Biles said, according to the newspaper. “He does a good job not letting pressure get to the athletes. You can see some coaches get stressed but he doesn’t.”
Biles’ previous coach since she was 7, Aimee Boorman, left their Houston-area gym for a gymnastics job in Florida after the Rio Games.
Biles said last week she plans to return to full-time training Nov. 1 and return to competition next summer.
Kocian is now at UCLA and uncertain to return to elite gymnastics.
Two other Final Five members -- Aly Raisman and Laurie Hernandez -- have said they plan to return to training for a Tokyo 2020 run. But neither has announced a return to the gym like Biles.
The last member -- 2012 Olympic all-around champion Gabby Douglas -- has not said whether she will come back.
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