Index – Sport – Simone Biles considers it a mistake to start at the Tokyo Olympics

The 24-year-old athlete told New York magazine that after what he has experienced over the past seven years, he should never have been on an Olympic team again, MTI writes.

I should have gotten out well in front of Tokyo when the media rumored about Larry Nassar for two years

– referred to Biles, who won four gold medals at the 2016 Rio Olympics, for the harassment case in which sports doctor Larry Nassar was sentenced in December 2017 to a maximum of sixty years in prison for possession of child pornography and sexual abuse. In January 2018, Biles testified that Nassar also harassed him.

Nassar has worked for the gymnastics federation and Michigan State University for more than two decades, and the harassment he committed was reported before Biles by renowned Olympic champion gymnasts such as Aly Raisman, Gabby Douglas and McKayla Maroney. The sports doctor – who pleaded guilty in November 2017 and pleaded guilty to multiple sexual harassment – was charged with sexually harassing at least 125 girls and young women.

However, I didn’t want to let him take away from me everything I had worked for since I was six years old.

Added the 19-time world champion gymnast.

Biles traveled to Tokyo as a gold medalist on several occasions and composites, where he then withdrew from the team competition for the first time, after the jump, only cheering on his teammates from the outside and saying he did so to maintain his mental health.

Never before has my perception changed so quickly that I want to stand on the podium just want to go home, on my own, without crutches

Said Biles, who feared in Tokyo that if he put further pressure on him as a result of the pressure on him, he could be injured. He added that his bronze medal won on a beam was a “small victory” for him in the Japanese capital.

(Cover image: Katharine Lotze / Getty Images Hungary)

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