The pressure that Simone Biles has been under at these Olympics is unfathomable. Writes williamfleitch: 'The wonder is not that Biles was unable to perform. The wonder is that she made it this far at all.'
Photo: Dylan Martinez/REUTERS When you strip away all the unnecessary, extraneous aspects of sports, the stuff that surrounds sports but isn’t actually sports — story lines, box scores, sportswriters, pregame shows, Stephen A. Smith — what you get is what actually matters: the pure, unadulterated physicality of the truly athletically blessed. The best athletes do things you didn’t think the human body was capable of. It can feel supernatural.
To do that requires an otherworldly combination of athletic gifts and intense, unwavering dedication. To be able to do that once means having attempted and failed thousands of times before. And it takes an incredible toll, physically and mentally. It seems like a miracle, but any athlete can tell you: It absolutely isn’t. We see only the end result. Getting there is what hurts the most.
Biles said she was shaking during the long wait between the team’s morning practice and the competition. “[I] never felt like this before … Once I came out here, I was like, No, the mental is not there. I had to let the girls do it.” The United States went on to finish behind the team from Russia, ending up with the silver medal, the first time the U.S. hasn’t won the gold since 2010. Biles’s withdrawal wasn’t the reason it fell short, or at least not the only one. But it will end up being all anyone remembers from the event despite the heroics of Chiles and her teammates. And it will all center around Biles’s mental health.
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