After the gold in the

Stuttgart World Cup, the

one in which she nailed a triple-double to the ground,

Simone Biles

(24) made some statements that today could seem premonitory: "If I felt like a superstar I would have more expectations of myself and I would feel more pressured. I only go out to compete, I try to represent Simone, not Simone Biles, because

at the end of the day I am still a human being

before Simone Biles, the superstar, "the gymnast assured.

That

"weight of perfection",

as

The New York Times

headlines this Wednesday

,

has been too much in these

Tokyo Olympics

for Biles, or for Simone, who left the team final to "take care of his mental health" and who will not participate either in the full contest.

Now only the option to dispute the devices remains open.

A weight and pressure that have been accompanying her since her childhood.

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Because before being the

best gymnast in history,

Biles had a difficult childhood. Her mother struggled with addictions while

Simone and her three siblings went through different foster homes

until she was

adopted by her maternal grandparents

at the age of six

. It was then that she moved from her

native

Ohio

to

Houston

and it was there, after a school trip to a gym, that the trainers saw the

high capacities

of a girl who, no matter how many somersaults she did, always fell on her feet.

There he began his sports career, in which with each dazzling step that he took that "weight" he was getting bigger and bigger.

But the pressure did not prevent him from taking a step forward when he considered that he should take it and

joined the

#MeToo

movement

.

"Most of you know me as a happy and laughing girl. But lately I have been feeling somewhat devastated and the more I try to silence the voice in my head, the louder it screams," she wrote on

Twitter

.

Larry Nassar and Simone Biles.EM

That voice with which he wanted to shout was the one he wanted to

denounce

Larry

Nassar

, the doctor for the United States gymnastics team

accused of sexually abusing more than 100 girls and adolescents

since 1992. Simone, who

declared having suffered "undue touching" from the A doctor,

she stepped forward for her companions and other survivors of the abuse.

He confronted the Federation

so that gymnasts would no longer have to train in central Texas where Nassar abused them and demanded measures for the mental well-being of the athletes.

After his public exposure for the

Nassar case

, Biles made news outside of sports again.

His brother

Tevin Biles-Thomas

had been charged with a triple murder in Ohio and was in jail awaiting trial because no one had posted his

million dollar bail

... Neither had his media sister.

The gymnast wanted from the beginning to get away from this controversy and only made statements to send her sincere

condolences to the families of the victims.

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Despite the media focus for her sporting achievements and her social struggles (she is an activist of the Black Lives Matter movement) Simone Biles has managed to make her love life go quite unnoticed.

She dated until the summer of 2020 with fellow gymnast

Stacey Ervin

and now her boyfriend is

Jonathan Owens

(26), a player for the Houston Texans in the NFL.

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