Simone Biles’s road back to the Olympics is the subject of a new Netflix docuseries that chronicles her life from the moment she got ‘the twisties’ in Tokyo in 2021.
the finals of the 2021 Olympics in Tokyo, saying she was experiencing the “twisties” and needed to focus on her mental health, she was called a quitter and accused of abandoning her teammates. Despite Biles’s best attempts at explaining that the twisties — a phenomenon where gymnasts lose sense of where they are in the air and don’t know how they’ll land — could be dangerous, her critics wouldn’t let up.
In the docuseries, Biles recalls the pressure she felt going into the Tokyo Games from the media, fans, and herself. The docuseries highlights the isolation of the COVID Games as a factor that contributed to Biles struggling in the competition. Without family, friends, or any fans in the stands, things felt uneasy from the start.
After withdrawing from the finals, “I kinda felt like I was in jail with my own brain and body,” Biles says, adding that she felt “so ashamed.” Biles also says that the moment happened because she could no longer suppress trauma from her past, saying, “Your body can only function for so long before your fuses blow out.”Biles says her “meltdown” at the Games was a trauma response related to the abuse.
Biles says the past year of competing has been hard and she hasn’t been as confident, so her coaches are trying “a different approach” that includes not talking to the media, “staying in my zone, following up with my therapist.” She says she alsothe comments on her Instagram to limit outside noise. “I don’t care if you want to comment good or bad, you’re not going to be allowed,” she says.Biles has faced criticism over her appearance since her earliest days in gymnastics.
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