Simone Biles teamed up with 'Dancing with the Stars' partner Sasha Farber to choreograph her gymnastics floor routine

Meredith Cash
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Simone Biles and Sasha Farber compete on "Dancing with the Stars."
Simone Biles and Sasha Farber compete on "Dancing with the Stars." Eric McCandless / Walt Disney Television via Getty Images

  • Simone Biles teamed back up with her "Dancing with the Stars" partner, Sasha Farber.

  • The 37-year-old professional dancer helped choreograph Biles' floor routine for the coming Olympics.

  • During Episode 5 of "Simone vs Herself," the gymnast said she worked with Farber to "spice it up."

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Simone Biles has reunited with an old friend ahead of the Tokyo Olympics.

The 24-year-old gymnastics superstar is once again teaming up with Sasha Farber, her partner from "Dancing with the Stars." After the duo mused about working together to develop a floor routine when they came in fourth place in the show's 24th season, Biles tapped the 37-year-old professional dancer to help choreograph her floor routine for the coming games.

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Simone Biles. Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images

The former dance partners were shown rehearsing together during Episode 5 of Biles' Facebook Watch docuseries, "Simone vs Herself."

"Usually, I have a different choreographer, but this year I feel like we needed to be a little bit different - spice it up," Biles said. "Even whenever I worked with Sasha on 'Dancing with the Stars,' we always said, 'Oh my gosh, if we could do a floor routine, how cool would that be?'"

So she made it happen. As she notes later in the episode, Biles has far more ownership over her routines and stylistic decisions than she did earlier in her illustrious gymnastics career.

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Simone Biles competes on floor. Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images

Working with Farber reflected that autonomy, which was clear from the collaborative exchanges between Biles and Farber shown in the episode. Though he was undoubtedly the expert, she offered her opinion on specific moves and even pushed back in certain moments because "you know yourself better than anybody at this point," as Biles explained.

Farber didn't seem to take issue with it at all. On the contrary, he said that Biles "moves like a dancer, no one's just seen that yet."

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Simone Biles (center) and Sasha Farber (right) wait for results on "Dancing with the Stars." ABC/Eric McCandless

"I'm really excited because she's really moving now," Farber told the cameras. "... To be where she is already, I can't wait to see what it's like in months to come."

"There's a very sassy side to Simone that I'm really excited for people to see," he added.

Check out the full episode of "Simone vs Herself" below:

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