Simone Biles is human she feels pain. This black person being superhuman and not given the credit they deserve is just a trip. We are always physical specimens, not brains and brawn. This is further from the truth we bleed we work harder than anyone and people look to take us down. A perfect example of this is Lebron James and Giannis wins and now he is the King not the body of work that Lebron has or Kobe had. Now the greatest gymnast is out and the Americans take silver in the Olympics. We have to be bigger than any one event. So if Simone can’t compete in the Olympics this event will not be the best in the world just like Ms. Richardson the sprinter can’t compete. The best in the world is not able to do it. The gold might be given out but it will go to second best. And that is sports we have had a lot of injuries this year in sports. It is like this, you want to beat the best or the Gold is not real. Micheal Phelps and Ali, if you did not beat them it is wash and Simone Biles is in the company. The Goat. They would have a Gold if her scores were counted, so the Russians win but they did not beat the best. You got it but it does not mean much for real. Pray she’s hurt and not injured cause the Olympics just got less interesting. She could be the oldest woman to win. It will not be the same with out her,
USA Gymnastics spokeswoman Carol Fabrizio confirmed to USA TODAY Sports that Biles would not compete in the remaining events.
“Simone has withdrawn from the team final competition due to a medical issue,” she said. “She will be assessed daily to determine medical clearance for future competitions.”
Biles left the competition floor moments after she struggled to land a vault that is second nature for her. On the team’s first event, she shockingly bailed on an Amanar – one of her more difficult vaults – and just barely landed a one-and-a-half.
A visibly upset Biles talked with one of her personal coaches, Cecile Landi, and the team doctor, Marcia Faustin. Though she put on her grips to prepare for uneven bars next, she left the competition floor.
When she returned, she took off her grips and put on her warm-ups and mask, and watched as her teammates continued through the meet.
In team finals, countries put up three gymnasts and count all three scores but have the flexibility of who competes on each apparatus with four women on each team.
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At 4 feet, 8 inches tall, Simone Biles often feels she has “the weight of the world on my shoulders.”
She was the first Olympic athlete ever anointed with a Twitter emoji reflecting her status as a GOAT — the greatest of all time.
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But the GOAT doesn’t need more medals. She already has four Olympic golds and 19 world championship titles.
As the only survivor of Larry Nassar’s sexual abuse to compete in these Olympics, “I had to come back to the sport to be a voice, to have change happen,” Biles told NBC’s Hoda Kotb this year.
“I feel like if there weren’t a remaining survivor in the sport, they would’ve just brushed it to the side. But since I’m still here, and I have quite a social media presence and platform, they have to do something.”
Biles has been a fierce advocate for sexual abuse survivors since Nassar, a former USA Gymnastics team doctor accused of sexually abusing more than 150 women and girls over a span of decades.
This is the first Olympics since the Nassar scandal broke and the first in decades without either Bela or Martha Karolyi — retired Hall of Fame coaches and former national team coordinators whose methods have been criticized by ex-gymnasts.
The Karolyis were lauded for helping launch gymnasts to international glory, but some former gymnasts described a culture of fear.
With Nassar in prison and the Karolyis retired, Biles is leading an all-new group of teammates at the Olympics and trying to inspire a new generation of young gymnasts — a generation she hopes won’t have to endure many of the challenges she faced.
“I feel like coming back, gymnastics just wasn’t the only purpose I was supposed to do,” Biles told Kotb.
But at age 24, she said training for another Olympics has been grueling. Many gymnasts struggle or retire by age 20, and no female gymnast has successfully defended an Olympic all-around title since 1968.
While still widely recognized as a GOAT, these Olympics have proven Biles is also human.
She made several uncharacteristic mistakes in the qualifying competition Sunday. She later wrote about grappling with the immense pressure and monumental expectations.
“It wasn’t an easy day or my best but I got through it. I truly do feel like I have the weight of the world on my shoulders at times,” Biles posted on Instagram.
“I know I brush it off and make it seem like pressure doesn’t affect me but damn sometimes it’s hard hahaha! The olympics is no joke!”
Two days later, she withdrew from the team competition due to mental health concerns.
“I just felt like it would be a little bit better to take a back seat and work on my mindfulness. I knew that the girls would do an absolutely great job, and I didn’t want to risk the team a medal for my screw ups because they worked way too hard for that,” Biles told journalists Tuesday.
“I took a step back because I didn’t want to do something silly out there and get injured. I thought it was best if the girls took over and did the rest of the job, which they absolutely did.”
Fellow Olympic champion Aly Raisman tweeted her support and said it’s difficult for many to understand what Biles is facing.
But Biles’ return to the Olympics isn’t over.
With the stratospheric degree of difficulty in her routines — including several jaw-dropping skills named after her — Biles has qualified for the individual all-around competition Thursday, as well as the individual event finals in floor exercise, balance beam, vault and uneven bars next week.
But with or without more medals, Biles has already overcome adversity (many times) and raised awareness about the importance of mental health.
“I felt like I had a purpose … and it’s to be a voice for the younger generation. And I feel like I’ve done that,” Biles told Kotb.
And her legacy will have far more impact than any medal.
