Simone Biles, star gymnast from the United States, aims to return to Olympic competition in Paris 2024. In the last Olympic event, the athlete had to abandon the competition, and put her career on pause, to take care of her mental health.
Simone Biles I come back to the professional competenceafter the break two years that it took to concentrate on your mental health after the blockage episode he suffered during the Tokyo 2021 Olympic Games. Now, the recovered athlete will seek to participate in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
Biles’ official return was during US. Chicago Classis in August 2023where, acclaimed by more than 10,000 fans, was established as the winner of the competition. The American federation announced that the athlete already has secured a place in it American sports olympus for the next Olympic event that will begin on July 26, 2024 in Paris.
Biles’ mental health: Tokyo 2021, the episode that changed everything.
The Tokyo 2021 Olympic Games were running. The North American gymnast, one of the icons of world sport who sought to continue expanding her legend, had to appear in the team final. After a erratic jump, America’s biggest star He left the competition, spoke with the coaches and was marginalized from the competition.
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After the tense situation, theories began to emerge. It was his own USA team the one who confirmed that Biles was retiring due to a “mental issue” she is going through. It was not a coincidence, just a few hours before the gymnast had opened up about the pressure That I felt: “I really feel like sometimes I have the weight of the world on my shoulders.. I know I forget and make it seem like the pressure doesn’t affect me, but damn, sometimes it’s hard”.
Some time later it was confirmed that the athlete suffered “twisties” (loss of orientation in the air). In the book “Religion of Sports” It was assured that Biles called her mother in the moments before retiring and admitted to her that “I felt like I might die every time I did a jump with two and a half turns.”
The return to competitions and the objective of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
After two years in which Biles worked on her therapy and in one Personal life, Biles returned to the competitions renewed. “I no longer feel like gymnastics is the end of everything., like before,” said the athlete and added “now I can go home to my husband, my dogs, my house and all those things. So I feel very good.”
The gymnast had a triumphant return In August 2023 he competed in the US Classic in Chicago, where he established himself as winner. Some time later the 26-year-old athlete won by eighth occasion, record For any gymnast, the all-around competition United States Championship.
After this triumph, the doors were opened for Biles to compete again in the September World Championships in Antwerp, Belgium, the same stage where he debuted in a World Cup event ten years ago. Although the Brazilian Rebecca Andrade She was a great rival and defeated her in the pont jumping final, Biles reigned in the competition with five medals, four of them of gold in the floor disciplines, balance beam, general competition and teams. Renewed, the American aims to participate in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games and return to the maximum stage of competition.
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