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The Life Of Simone Biles
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4/18/2025
She’s pulled off moves that no other gymnast can. But it was her decision to put her mental health ahead of medals that shocked people this Olympics season. This is the incredible story of Simone Biles.
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Most people think I'm not human, but I feel like I go through some of the same problems
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they do.
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So I feel like if they can relate, then they can kind of think I'm normal.
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I kind of knew I wanted to be a gymnast from the start.
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It's the very first sport I tried, and I had a lot of fun doing it, but I think gymnastics
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found me.
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I think one of my greatest strengths as a competitor is whenever I compete, I love to
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have fun, and I think that's what helps me and sets me apart.
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At the beginning of the year, my mom would always make me write down goals on a piece
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of paper and take it to her.
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And so that's kind of how I always was very well-driven, because I always had the next
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goal in mind.
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The Olympic experience for me just kept getting better and better, like we won team gold,
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and then we brought home a couple more medals, and then I got to meet Zach, and then I got
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to carry the flag, and it was just a huge honor.
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It's almost more normalized now, going to therapy and having anxiety, and I think being
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in the public eye, almost a lot of us have it.
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I was mad, I was annoyed, I was upset, because I felt like I had just been so prepared.
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Never in my life have I been that prepared, so I felt like just it sucked for me personally.
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I put mental health first, because if you don't, then you're not going to enjoy your
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sport and you're not going to succeed as much as you want to, so it's okay sometimes to
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even sit out the big competitions to focus on yourself, because it shows how strong of
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a competitor and person that you really are, rather than just battle through it.
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