An uncharacteristic fall on a tumbling-pass in floor exercise could have derailed Simone Biles. There was also trouble on the balance beam. But she wiped those away with a rocketing Amanar vault that put her in first place of the P&G Gymnastics Championships on Thursday at Bankers Life Fieldhouse.

Coach Maggie Haney had two junior-level gymnasts atop the leaderboard Thursday in the first round of the P&G Gymnastics Championships, but she was far from satisfied.

Kiwan Watts and Tristan Burke are two junior-level men’s gymnasts to watch this weekend at the P&G Championships at Bankers Life Fieldhouse. Starting next year, they will begin competing with the seniors.

Olympian. NCAA champion. Entrepreneur. Sam Mikulak is all of those things. By Sunday at the P&G Championships at Bankers Life Fieldhouse he could be something more: Three-time U.S. men’s all-around champion.

The youngest member of the Fierce Five from the London Games never left the gym. Despite celebrity appearances to make after winning Olympic team gold, Kyla Ross didn’t want or need a break from competing.

With the start of the 2015 P&G Gymnastics Championships on Thursday, the “Countdown to Rio” begins in earnest for the USA’s top male and female gymnasts when they begin their quest for this year’s national titles and national team berths.

When she told her coach she wanted to return to the national team a year after winning two gold medals and a bronze in the 2012 Olympics, Aly Raisman got an oh-no kind of response.

Gabrielle Douglas, the 2012 Olympic all-around champion, likes her chances of returning to the Olympics. She took about 2-1/2 years off from competing after the London Games, where she and other members of the Fierce Five won the team gold.

Bailie Key said she is conveying more emotion in a floor routine in which she goes from being a circus performer to ringmaster to music from Cirque du Soleil.

She has won national and world all-around championships the last two years so it’s hard to imagine Simone Biles having a rough day in the gym. But it happened Wednesday.