Thanks to the world’s best gymnast, it’s no longer considered weak to care about mental health.
One of the hardest jobs at the Olympics is commenting on Simone Biles’s performances. The normally chatty announcers can’t say anything except “Wow!” “Incredible!” “Unbelievable!” I get it. I’ve been an armchair gymnastics fan since I was a kid in the 1980s and ’90s. Biles soars higher than anyone else in the competition. She performs more difficult routines than any other woman. Heck, her vault is so hard thatcan land it. And she’s doing all this at a gymnastics “grandma” age of 27.
I’m rooting for Biles to win it all not just because she’s the best, but also because she has changed the sport of gymnastics — and her country. Who can forget what happened at the last Olympics in Tokyo. Biles stunned the world by dropping out of the team competition after a fluke vault. She wasn’t visibly injured. There was no limping or screaming. But she was hurting mentally. Had” to scapegoat for an angry world still largely locked down. Her career seemed over. Yet here she is — back and better than ever with a new tattoo on her collarbone: Maya Angelou’s “And Still I Rise.”the world well beyond sports.
it amounted to borderline child abuse. It took the story of widespread sexual abuse of gymnasts by team physician. Kerri Strug’s infamous vault on a broken ankle at the 1996 Atlanta Games, as Bela Karolyi yelled “You can do it!” from the sidelines looks alarming to the world today.In her new Netflix documentary, she says she still struggles with flashbacks when she arrives at big competitions. But she has found her voice and pushed for change in her sport.
She’s also helped diversify the sport, inspiring young gymnasts of all backgrounds to compete. Biles’s personal story is powerful: She lived in foster care until her grandparents adopted her. She had overcome a great deal well before social media trolls criticized her hair, her clothes, her dance moves and. Today, there is a calm about her. She lets her flips and turns, scores and medals do the talking.
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