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Later the mental block would arrive, a paralysis that has not yet come out, but just a week ago, last Sunday,

Simone Biles

he competed in the full contest rankings and did, as always, frankly well.

"No, he was not like that before coming to Tokyo," he replied to his followers on Instagram when they asked him if anxiety had already attacked him months before, weeks before, days before, while training in the United States.

In that debut in the Games, he made a mistake, one especially strange in the floor exercise, but nobody suspected because, after all, it was a qualification and Biles could consider it a training.

On the colt he scored the best score and on the ground, despite the failure, the second best, which heralded a new concatenation of golds, like that of the Rio 2016 Games or better.

Then came the disorientation in the middle of the jump.

Then a fight began in which he does not give up.

Biles against Biles, perhaps the duel of these Games. It takes place without cameras, in a private gym near the Ariake Gymnastics Center, according to each morning and afternoon. The gymnast tries again and again her exercises, those that she has done hundreds of times, and there is always a point where she must stop: when she turns in the air. As you have recognized, in the so-called '

twisties

', the pirouettes, he loses his sense of space and place and lands as he can, if he lands.

"When I fly I don't know if I'm up or down," he admitted.

Thus, it is impossible for him to make his star movements, the 'Biles', the 'Biles II', and very, very difficult for him to compete.

But Biles rushes his options.

This Saturday, USA Gymnastics announced that it will not participate in the colt and asymmetric finals, but is still undergoing "daily checks" to look for a medal on the floor and on the balance beam.

In the second device it is unlikely that it will reappear, but on the ground this Monday ...

More dancer, more possibilities

The ground is your habitat, the place in the world where you feel most comfortable or, at least, felt. There he is even capable of hanging the gold by reducing the difficulty of his exercises thanks to his acrobatic capacity and the evolution of recent years, which has led him to improve his rhythmic part. If she even started working with dancer

Sasha Farber

, her partner on the reality show

Dancing with the Stars

, to get more artistic, more to the taste of the judges.

His return would be the great moment of these Games and, perhaps for that reason, it will not happen.

After what happened, the day Biles returns he will have all the spotlights on, be it in a major or minor event, but if he manages to do it here in Tokyo, everyone - even those who never follow the sport - will be attentive.

Too much for his anxiety, too much for him to enjoy heights again, as he had done all his life.

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