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“I’m in a really good spot and who knows,” she said. “I’m not going to think so far ahead.”
“Getting to talk to people and realizing we’re kind of all going through this together was nice,” Biles said. “But it’s sad because it’s the pinnacle of your career. You should be on top of the world and everybody’s kind of dreading it and so sad.” Biles admitted she was worried about how she’d be received on Saturday night, mindful of the vitriol she had regularly experienced since Tokyo.
Well, not the only reason. Biles stressed she is doing this “for herself,” a description she would use regularly in 2021, one that ultimately turned out not to be entirely true. She could feel the pressure put upon her by unidentified people inside USA Gymnastics that she said called her “our gold medal token.”Asked what doing it “for herself” means this time around, the newlywed laughed.
“You saw what happened, pulling out of five finals when … I know what I’m capable of and knowing what I can do,” she said. “It was like a mental injury, you know, So something like that. I knew I could with the proper work and the proper help, I knew I could come back and hopefully have a shot.”
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