A great figure in world gymnastics, Simone Biles ended up being featured at the Olympic Games for extra-sports reasons. After leaving the team final and giving up on the individual final, the 24-year-old American is considering not playing in the individual final of the four apparatuses, for which she is already qualified.
At dawn this Friday, Simone Biles used social media to explain what put the big favorite to gold in all gymnastics events in trouble. Through a series of videos, however erased, the Texan tried to illustrate what she calls twisties, the desynchronization between body and mind, with several falls on foam blocks during training.
“It’s the weirdest feeling ever. I don’t have any control over my body. The scariest thing is that since I have no idea where I am in the air, I have no idea how I’m going to land. People don’t realize how dangerous this is on a hard competition surface. Right now I don’t know how to spin», he ventled on social networks.
Remember that this is a common problem among gymnasts. In March of this year, the British Claudia Fragapane, 23, suffered a similar mental block and ended up falling out of control in a somersault, landing on her head. A temporary paralysis led to her having to give up on the Olympic Games.
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