We will leave the analysis and dissection of the decision by American gymnast legend Simone Biles to drop out of the Tokyo Olympics due to mental health to the future, where significantly more information might come out that would give perspicacity to the nature of that decision.
For now, we err on the side of the individual and assume her reasons for doing so are well-founded and applaud the long history she holds in representing American excellence through gymnastics on a world stage like no one else before her.
Simone Biles’ Olympics puts focus on mental health: ‘I have to do what’s right for me’ – National
From globalnews.ca
2021-07-28 11:12:11
Leslie Young
Excerpt:
Biles, though, took things to a new level — one that now makes it thinkable to do what had been almost unthinkable only 24 hours before. She stepped back, assessed the situation and realized it would not be healthy to keep going.
On Wednesday, she pulled out of the all-around competition to focus on her mental well-being.
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