Not all gymnasts successfully return to competition after suffering a sudden loss of air awareness as Biles did in the Olympics.
For years in gymnastics, the phrase"the twisties" was usually uttered in hushed tones, as if saying the slang term for an athlete's sudden loss of air awareness during a routine would only deepen the problem.
That won't be an option on Saturday when Biles competes for the first time since Tokyo in the U.S. Classic at a sold-out Now Arena in Hoffman Estates.
More twisting. More flipping. Elements that had come easy to him since he became a gymnast at 13, an unusually advanced age for someone to take up the sport. Not that it stopped him. Within five years Dyer had worked his way into a spot at Oklahoma, one of the dominant men's programs in the country. To this day, Dyer still isn't sure what happened. All he knows is that for years he could do a"full in" -- a double backflip with a full twist mixed in -- and then he couldn't."I'm like, 'if I can't do this, then I have a serious problem,'" Dyer said.
Dyer likened it to a dream -- maybe nightmare is the better word -- where you need to run in order to save your life, and you look down and your legs are moving and you're simply not going anywhere.
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