--- title: TIME Magazine Cover: Simone Biles and the Olympic Games description: Simone Biles Is Taking Her Sport to New Heights Let the 2016 Rio Games Begin A New Beach Volleyball Partnership Faces its Toughest Test Yet... canonical: https://time.com/4428090/in-the-latest-issue-79/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-07-28T10:00:34.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-26T20:06:19.493Z article:section: Sports og:title: TIME Magazine Cover: Simone Biles and the Olympic Games og:description: Simone Biles Is Taking Her Sport to New Heights Let the 2016 Rio Games Begin A New Beach Volleyball Partnership Faces its Toughest Test Yet... og:url: https://time.com/4428090/in-the-latest-issue-79/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbfcc556099c2e186/69889fda0a4a22f2c59caae2/sbiles_oly-cover.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Summer Olympics Simone Biles Time International Magazine Europe and South Pacific Cover 160808 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: TIME Magazine Cover: Simone Biles and the Olympic Games twitter:description: Simone Biles Is Taking Her Sport to New Heights Let the 2016 Rio Games Begin A New Beach Volleyball Partnership Faces its Toughest Test Yet... twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbfcc556099c2e186/69889fda0a4a22f2c59caae2/sbiles_oly-cover.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # In the Latest Issue (28 Jul 2016) by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Jul 28, 2016 10:00 AM UTC  Photograph by Thomas Prior for TIME by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Jul 28, 2016 10:00 AM UTC [Simone Biles Is Taking Her Sport to New Heights](http://time.com/4428013/simone-biles-gymnastics-usa/?iid=toc%5F072816) [Let the 2016 Rio Games Begin](http://time.com/4428036/let-the-games-begin/?iid=toc%5F072816) [A New Beach Volleyball Partnership Faces its Toughest Test Yet](http://time.com/4428047/kerri-walsh-jennings-and-april-ross-beach-volleyball-usa/?iid=toc%5F072816) [Justin Gatlin Has a Final Chance to Beat Bolt–and Win Redemption](http://time.com/4428016/justin-gatlin-track-and-field-usa/?iid=toc%5F072816) [Amid Crises, Rio Readies for its Olympics Closeup](http://time.com/4428030/crises-rio-olympics/?iid=toc%5F072816) [Can the Games Get Clean?](http://time.com/4428045/can-the-games-get-clean/?iid=toc%5F072816) [What About Zika?](http://time.com/4428022/what-about-zika/?iid=toc%5F072816) [Embracing His Rival, Bernie Sanders Gives Hillary Clinton the Boost She Needs](http://time.com/4428051/sanders-gives-clinton-the-boost-she-needs/?iid=toc%5F072816) [A Kidnapping of the Heart on Netflix](http://time.com/4428010/a-kidnapping-of-the-heart-on-netflix/?iid=toc%5F072816) [What You Said About …](http://time.com/4428011/what-you-said-about/?iid=toc%5F072816) [Low Gas Prices Are Stalling the Green-Car Revolution](http://time.com/4428012/low-gas-prices-are-stalling-the-green-car-revolution/?iid=toc%5F072816) [Women’s ‘Empowerment’ Is Not Real Power](http://time.com/4428014/womens-empowerment-is-not-real-power/?iid=toc%5F072816) [Putin Is on a Foreign-Policy Winning Streak](http://time.com/4428018/putin-is-on-a-foreign-policy-winning-streak/?iid=toc%5F072816) [A Summer of Bloodshed Threatens Europe’s Union](http://time.com/4428019/a-summer-of-bloodshed-threatens-europes-union/?iid=toc%5F072816) [That ’70s Saga](http://time.com/4428023/that-70s-saga/?iid=toc%5F072816) [The Rise of Chicken](http://time.com/4428006/the-rise-of-chicken/?iid=toc%5F072816) [Thais Vote on a New Constitution Under the Military’s Thumb](http://time.com/4428025/thais-vote-on-a-new-constitution-under-the-militarys-thumb/?iid=toc%5F072816) [For the Record](http://time.com/4428027/for-the-record/?iid=toc%5F072816) [Pop Chart](http://time.com/4428033/pop-chart/?iid=toc%5F072816) [Quick Talk With Kathryn Hahn](http://time.com/4428038/kathryn-hahn/?iid=toc%5F072816) [I Want Olympic Glory for My Son. 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