COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Time zones don’t affect Jordan Chiles.
She declares this while sitting in a hotel conference room near the University of Maryland, more than 2,600 miles from her Los Angeles townhouse. It’s 10 p.m. on a Friday in January, the night before a competition. She already split her week between Los Angeles and Las Vegas, where she flew for a Time Magazine “Women of the Year” photoshoot that Thursday, and she and her teammates had just spent their day touring Washington D.C., making stops at the Washington Monument and the World War II Memorial.
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The schedule sounds exhausting. But Chiles has been traveling to international gymnastics competitions since
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