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
.
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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