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Simone Biles: «I chose myself. I should have quit before the games “

It takes a lot of training to win an Olympic medal, it takes heart, which is the passion that leads to training, and it takes head. Without a clear mind, nothing is won. Indeed, new demons arrive every day like those they have attacked Simone Biles at the Tokyo Games. “If you look at everything I’ve been through over the past seven years, I should never have been on another Olympic team. I am like someone who wakes up and suddenly sees nothing. ‘

The summer Olympic drama has very distant roots that the multiple champion, Olympic and world champion, told in an interview with New York Magazine. Like hundreds of other gymnasts she revealed that she was one of the victims of the former doctor of the American women’s team Larry Nassar, sentenced to life imprisonment for sexual violence. “I wouldn’t let him take something I’d been working for since I was 6. I wouldn’t let him take that joy away from me. I pushed beyond what I could, for as long as my mind and body allowed me to. ‘

The collapse came when there should have been triumph. After years of victories, after years of superiority trying jumps and exercises impossible for the others. Always going beyond what seemed to be the limits of gymnastics. In Tokyo it has lost its bearings, literally and metaphorically: you can jump up to the sky if you know where to land. She didn’t know anymore. «I have been doing gymnastics for 18 years and I woke up in those conditions, lost. How should I continue? ».

It is an open question for the future for his career, but above all for his life. “It will probably be something I will work on for twenty years. I just want a doctor to tell me when I’ll be healed. Like when you have an operation and they put you back. Why can’t anyone tell me that it will be over in six months? ‘

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