![]() She’s such an outsized talent that she’s transcended sport altogether and become the kind of cultural phenomenon that only male athletes usually got to be in a previous era.īlack women athletes are still being scrutinized ahead of the Olympics despite their successesīut Biles returned to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics with something more to prove. (Ever heard of the Yurchenko double pike? Not until Simone Biles, you didn’t, because she was the first to ever execute it.) Dozens of articles have said as much in the weeks leading up to her return to the Olympics. Here is an athlete with virtually no rival no one has ever done the kinds of moves she can. She executes moves so complex, so far from anything her competitors are capable of, that the gymnastics judging panel has been accused of dampening her scores so she doesn’t obliterate the competition. Seeing her slip reminds her many fans of what pressure, however well-intentioned, can do to an international idol.īiles is the greatest gymnast of all time watch any of her previous routines and this much is undeniable. “I know I brush it off and make it seem like pressure doesn’t affect me but damn sometimes it’s hard hahaha!” she wrote on Instagram.īiles, the most decorated American gymnast, defies gravity like a superhuman, but even our near-perfect heroes are fallible. After her less-than-perfect performance in the preliminary round Sunday, she said she feels like she has “the weight of the world on shoulders at times.” Biles’ talent and charisma has catapulted her to a pedestal so high and seemingly untouchable that any mistake is magnified, and it’s all the more devastating – to Biles and to her many fans – when she falls.īiles isn’t one to hide how she feels. ![]() ![]() Her departure stunned the sports world and her many fans in the US who’ve seen her repeatedly make the most difficult moves in gymnastics look like standard playground stunts. Simone Biles performs on the vault during the artistic gymnastics women's final at the 2020 Summer Olympics. ![]()
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