“What she did was heroic.”
, about what happened to Biles, and what her and the sport’s future will look like. Our conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity.Going into the 2021 Games, the hype was pretty real for Simone Biles and the team.On her best day, she is absolutely unbeatable. The thing is that if you’ve been watching her closely for the last year, you’ve seen flashes of absolute incredible brilliance and also her exhaustion.
Here’s what happened in the qualifying round: The U.S. started on floor, and everybody scored a little bit low. It was apparent that the judges were going to be a little harsh. When Biles took the floor, she looked amazing, but her only error was that her third tumbling pass was too powerful and she bounded not just out of bounds, but off the floor entirely. She did score quite a bit lower than she usually does, and that set a little bit of a pall over the competition.The team was freaked out.
The worst it possibly could have for Biles. It started in warmups. She did her warmup and something went wrong during it. Then, everyone else competing does does pretty well and then it’s time for Biles and she goes up and into the middle of the air, and I could tell immediately that something went really, really wrong: She’d lost where she was.I could just tell because it didn’t look like what she usually does. She only did a twist and a half instead of two-and-a-half.
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