Simone Biles.Photo: Nathan Congleton//NBCUniversal via Getty
Simone Biles has surmounted so much, and now she’s reflecting on how — and why — she’s pushed herself so hard.
Ina new interview withNew York Magazine, which comes just a month after Biles' tumultuous experience at the Tokyo Olympics, the athlete candidly says, “If you looked at everything I’ve gone through for the past seven years, I should have never made another Olympic team.”
Tearing up, Biles continues, “I should have quit way before Tokyo, when Larry Nassar was in the media for two years. It was too much. But I was not going to let him take something I’ve worked for since I was 6 years old. I wasn’t going to let him take that joy away from me. So I pushed past that for as long as my mind and my body would let me.”
Sunisa Lee and Simone Biles.Simone Biles/Instagram
“Say up until you’re 30 years old, you have your complete eyesight,” Biles elaborated. “One morning, you wake up, you can’t see shit, but people tell you to go on and do your daily job as if you still have your eyesight. You’d be lost, wouldn’t you? That’s the only thing I can relate it to. I have been doing gymnastics for 18 years. I woke up — lost it. How am I supposed to go on with my day?”
Still, Biles ended the Olympics with a silver for women’s artistic team all-around and a bronze for women’s balance beam. Since then, she said in the interview, “There have been highs, there have been lows.”
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“Sometimes it’s like, yeah, I’m perfectly okay with it. Like, that’s how it works. That’s how it panned out,” shad admitted. “And then other times I’ll just start bawling in the house
source: people.com
