Simone Biles needed a private place to learn to do gymnastics again. The Americans called a Japanese professor, who had a facility an hour outside of Tokyo where she could escape the public eye.
TOKYO—Early Wednesday morning last week, the phone of Juntendo University professor Kazuhiro Aoki rang. On the line was an American with a discreet request: There was a gymnast who needed to use the school’s gym.About 12 hours earlier, Simone Biles had stunned the world by pulling out of the women’s team final while it was still under way, a shaky vault leaving her certain she could not continue to perform safely or effectively.
Biles would later say she couldn’t understand how or why everything went wrong, but that she had lost her sense of where she was in the air as she twisted and turned. The same traits that made her indomitable in events like the vault and floor vanished. And her confidence was shredded. A week later, she returned to competition to deliver a secure performance on the balance beam, anchored by a dismount she hadn’t done in over a decade. The image of Biles stumbling in terror was replaced by the sight of her waving from the podium
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