After withdrawing from two finals at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, American gymnast Simone Biles He did not compete again to focus on taking care of his mental health. But this Saturday at the US Classic in Chicago, he will once again compete in four disciplines.
The winningest gymnast from the United States will participate in the four exercises of the modality, vault, uneven bars, balance beam and floor. In order for her to reappear in an official competition two years later.
Biles has won 7 Olympic medals in her career, 5 of them at the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games in 2016 and two at Tokyo 2020. In these last games, the 26-year-old athlete was the focus of attention when she retired in full competition for “not being mentally prepared to continue“.
Biles’ Mental Health
In 2021 during the women’s team gymnastics final of the Tokyo Olympics, Biles had made a participation with a rating of 13,766, the lowest for the athlete in an Olympic Games, at the end she simply withdrew from the arena.
“After the performance I did, I just didn’t want to continue”, was the explanation given by the young gymnast that day. “I have to focus on my mental health. I just think mental health is more important in sports right now. We have to protect our minds and our bodies, and not just go out and do what the world wants us to do, ”analyzed Biles, who after that participation in Tokyo did not officially compete again.
Biles was born in Ohio and was raised by her grandparents, as her parents were drug addicts. She began her steps in gymnastics at just 6 years old and in 2018 she confessed that she was sexually abused by the former US gymnastics team doctor. These situations from her childhood and adolescence, added to the great demands she was subjected to as one of the best athletes in her country, ended up affecting her mentally in her career to the point of retiring.
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