diff --git a/benchmarks/benchmark_all_examples.py b/benchmarks/benchmark_all_examples.py
index e45537a4dd2dca52482f53f9b865f2302cb660c6..8af61ef4907a234c8e3ae37eb29692e89e079beb 100644
--- a/benchmarks/benchmark_all_examples.py
+++ b/benchmarks/benchmark_all_examples.py
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ for entry in [entry for entry in importlib_resources.contents('examples') if
               not pkg_resources.resource_isdir('examples', entry)
               and entry.endswith(".py")
               and '__init__' not in entry
-              and 'demo.py' not in entry
+              and 'DELETE' not in entry
               ]:
     print("*****************************************************************")
     print("Benchmarking {}".format(entry))
diff --git a/benchmarks/profile_all_examples.py b/benchmarks/profile_all_examples.py
index 51a2b33dbfc3d675694c67fd6fa8fbcf6eabaa66..337009ac58d72ad2a53b01b53187619f0fd9ac4f 100644
--- a/benchmarks/profile_all_examples.py
+++ b/benchmarks/profile_all_examples.py
@@ -29,7 +29,5 @@ for entry in [entry for entry in importlib_resources.contents('examples') if
               and entry.endswith(".py")
               and '__init__' not in entry
               and 'DELETE' not in entry
-              # TODO temporarily excluded simple_example_1.py since it hangs in ci - no idea why
-              and 'simple_example_1.py' not in entry
               ]:
     profile('examples', entry)
diff --git a/benchmarks/run_all_examples.py b/benchmarks/run_all_examples.py
index 0d4b482ce7723e88f3497f2d7958ee8261f23205..99e240ad30051fda218a8b26b7d99a7129ede410 100644
--- a/benchmarks/run_all_examples.py
+++ b/benchmarks/run_all_examples.py
@@ -13,8 +13,6 @@ for entry in [entry for entry in importlib_resources.contents('examples') if
               and entry.endswith(".py")
               and '__init__' not in entry
               and 'DELETE' not in entry
-              # TODO temporarily excluded simple_example_1.py since it hangs in ci - no idea why
-              and 'simple_example_1.py' not in entry
               ]:
     with path('examples', entry) as file_in:
         print("")