SPRING, Texas (AP) - Simone Biles is not "cured." A cure implies finality. An ultimate and decisive victory.
Simone Biles is stepping into the Olympic spotlight again. She is better prepared for the pressure
SPRING, Texas (AP) - Simone Biles is not "cured." A cure implies finality. An ultimate and decisive victory.
If the gymnastics superstar has learned anything in the three years since those strange, uncertain days in Tokyo when she put her mental health and personal safety ahead of her pursuit of more Olympic glory, it is that the battle to protect yourself is never really over. Never fully won.
It’s a lesson she learned in front of the entire world in Japan, where Biles arrived as the face of the Summer Games only to withdraw from multiple competitions, including the team final, when her body simply stopped doing what her brain was asking it to.
Biles blamed it on " the twisties.” On the surface, she was right. Yet they sprang from something deeper and harder to define.