{"id":1391418,"date":"2021-07-27T17:54:51","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T21:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/?p=1391418"},"modified":"2021-07-27T17:57:54","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T21:57:54","slug":"simone-biles-big-winner-after-doing-something-much-more-important-capturing-gold-medal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/simone-biles-big-winner-after-doing-something-much-more-important-capturing-gold-medal\/","title":{"rendered":"Simone Biles a Big Winner After Doing Something Much More Important Than Capturing a Gold Medal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

All eyes were on Simone Biles<\/a>. They always are. This time, they watched as she uncharacteristically struggled in her gymnastics routine at the Tokyo Olympics<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After her performance on the vault, she walked with a medical staffer by her side. When all was said and done, Biles was done with the team competition. There would be no gold medal this time, but she did something much more important.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Simone Biles left the floor after her lowest vault score of her career<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Simon Biles of USA falls before retiring from the event during the gymnastics artistic Women's Team Final on Day 4 of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at Ariake Gymnastics Centre on July 27, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by Jean Catuffe\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Biles wasn't herself Tuesday. She actually hasn't been herself<\/a> in quite a while. The 24-year-old American gymnastics star admitted she hasn't been having as much fun with gymnastics. Lately, she felt she was performing for others and not herself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I just don't trust myself as much anymore,” she said in a press conference Tuesday, according to ESPN<\/a>. “I don't know if it's age. I'm just more nervous when I do gymnastics. I feel like I'm also not having as much fun. And I know this Olympic Games, I wanted it to be for myself. I'm still doing it for other people.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some believed Biles injured herself on the vault. She insisted the decision to withdraw from the team competition wasn't because of any physical injury.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I just felt like it would be a little bit better to take a back seat and work on my mindfulness,” she said as she took a deep breath. “I knew the girls would do an absolutely great job and I didn't want to risk the team a medal for my screwup because they've worked way too hard for that.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Simone Biles addressed her mental health in front of the world<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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