Simone Biles yelled 'confidence Suni!' at teammate Sunisa Lee as she once again proved she's the most supportive teammate around

• Simone Biles was heard yelling encouragement at teammate Sunisa Lee from the sidelines on her Olympic return.
• Biles returned on Tuesday after withdrawing from five events for mental health reasons, competing in the balance beam.
• "Confidence Suni! You got this!" Biles yelled at Lee as she waited for her score after her bronze medal run.

Simone Biles has endured a difficult Tokyo Olympics due to an ongoing battle with her mental health.

However, that didn't stop the 24-year-old yelling encouragement at her USA gymnastics teammate Sunisa Lee from the sidelines as she waited for her score in the women's balance beam final.

Biles had withdrawn from the women's team final and her four other individual events last week, however returned to the arena on Tuesday, competing in the balance beam.

After scoring an impressive 14.000 - which proved to be enough to secure a bronze medal - Biles watched on as Lee took to the beam.

Still waiting for her own score to come through, Biles decided to give some encouragement to her teammate.

"Confidence Suni! You got this!" Biles was heard yelling at her compatriot.

Lee, who won gold in the individual all-around last week, scored 13.866 after a minor wobble during her routine.

At the time, Lee's score tied her for third place, however she ended up slipping just shy of a medal after 16-year-old Chinese prodigy Guan Chenchen scored a huge 14.633 to take home gold.

China's Tang Xijing finished second, wedged between Chenchen and Biles with 14.233.

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It's not the first time at this Olympics that Biles has turned cheerleader in these games. After withdrawing from the team all-around last week, Biles was spotted coaching her teammates and cheering them on from the sidelines, while she has also been in the crowd for a number of the individual events.

Biles' return on Tuesday was greeted with rapturous applause from those watching on at the Ariake Arena.

And on leaving the floor she was greeted by International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach, who last week described her decision to withdraw and focus on her mental health as "courageous."

With her bronze, her seventh ever Olympic medal, Biles becomes the most accomplished American Olympic gymnast of all time. Only Magnificent Seven gymnast Shannon Miller has won as many, but Biles' four golds is unmatched.

"It just means the world that I can come out and compete one more time before the Olympic Games are over," Biles told the BBC after the event.

"On the other finals I physically couldn't twist in the air, I just kept crashing, so I wasn't cleared safely to do those things. My mind wasn't there but with beam I could do it. I just had to change my beam dismount otherwise I couldn't have done it."