As the sport’s best athletes, Simone Biles started to rebuild a long time back at the Tokyo Olympics, when she thusly pulled out of several events as a result of “twisties” – a mental block causing a gymnast to lose track of their positions midair. But the gymnastic professional returned with a bang!.
Simone Biles is the most successful gymnast of her time by completing a history-making comeback at the recent World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. By getting back to the world stage in such unequivocal style, Biles displayed the most elevated level by characterizing her sport.
Simon Biles became the first woman to land the Yurchenko double pike vault at an international competition, ensuring that it will now be named the Biles II in her honor, and became the most decorated male or female gymnast ever, surpassing Belarusian Vitaly Scherbo’s record of 33 overall medals across both the Olympics and the world championships.
She won four gold medals during the big showdowns as well – in the team, all-around, beam and floor competitions, as well as a silver medal in the vault. In her weakest discipline – the uneven bars finals – she finished fifth.
Not many months ago, Biles at absolutely no point in the future thought of competing. As a matter of fact, she had asked of a two-year break from the sport after Tokyo to take care of her mental health.
During that time, Biles has been open about rethinking her relationship to gymnastics.
“going to therapy, making sure everything is aligned so she could be the best in the gym and be a good wife, good daughter, good friend, all of the good things,” as she said in an interview back in September.
Nevertheless, she was “nervous” for the team finals.
“That’s when everything occurred, so I was a little bit traumatized from that,” Biles said, according to the official Olympics website.
Returning to the international stage in Antwerp was a good one for her career to date, a fitting place to re-establish herself as the world’s best gymnast.
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Biles first announced herself on the world stage 10 years ago, winning her first all-around world title as a precocious 16-year-old, as well as a gold, silver and bronze medal in the floor, vault and beam separately in Antwerp .
“I’m very proud,” she said on her return to Antwerp. “Especially after the year I had after Tokyo, coming back and just being comfortable and confident in my routines. I couldn’t ask for more,” she told BBC Sport.
Now, Biles is focusing on Paris, as she has proactively said that competing at next year’s Paris Olympics is a “a way she couldn’t want anything more than to go (down). She is anxious to get back to the biggest stage and is hoping to add one more feat to her all around astounding legacy.
