GOLDEN GLORY: One of America's most decorated gymnasts is making her return to the mat.
but stunned the sports world when she announced her withdrawal from the team finals due to the emotional toll the Games had taken on her.U.S. gymnast Simone Biles poses with her bronze medal for the artistic gymnastics women's balance beam apparatus at the 2020 Summer Olympics Aug. 3, 2021, in Tokyo.
She served as a cheerleader as her American teammates won the team silver then sat out the all-around, vault and floor exercise finals she had qualified for while dealing with what is known as"the twisties," a gymnastics term for when an athlete loses spatial awareness when airborne. Biles did return for the balance beam final, where she won a bronze medal that tied Shannon Miller’s record for most Olympic medals by an American female gymnast.
Simone Biles of the United States prepares to start her performance on the balance beam during the artistic gymnastics women's apparatus final at the 2020 Summer Olympics Aug. 3, 2021, in Tokyo. Biles has mostly kept her social media channels gymnastics-free over the past two months. She has instead used the platforms to highlight snippets of her personal life.
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