Simone Biles finishes the Tokyo Games in style. After missing the finals on vault, Biles returned to the competition on Tuesday and won the bronze in the balance team event. No matter what’s the color of the medal is, the most important thing is she made a comeback, delivered a brilliant performance on the big stage, and nailed it with a smile.
Biles earned her seventh career Olympic medal and tied Shannon Miller for the most by an American in gymnastics. She finished the Tokyo Olympics with two medals: one silver in the team final and her bronze on Tuesday. Biles received a standing ovation as she walked out for the finals. And after the competition, she waved and blew a kiss at the photographers and the crowd, and hugged her teammates too.
It meant the world to be out there. I wasn’t expecting to walk away with a medal. I was doing this for me, and whatever happens, happens.
China’s Guan Chenchen won the gold with a winning score of 14.633. Xijing finished second with a score of 14.233. Olympic all-around champion Sunisa Lee of the United States finished fifth. Lee won three medals in Tokyo. She won gold in the individual all-around, bronze in the uneven bars, and silver in the U.S. women’s team gymnastics finals.
“I’ll cherish this a lot more. I would like to dedicate it to all Team USA for helping me and reaching out and supporting me it’s just meant the world,” said Biles
Simone Biles opts out of floor exercise final at Olympics
The 24-year-old Biles had qualified for all five individual event finals. But she took herself out of four of them, to focus on her mental health to focus on mental health. She was dealing with a mental block – ‘the twisties’. In simple words, Biles is trying to do a skill but not having your mind & body in sync.
“For anyone saying I quit, I didn’t quit, my mind and body are simply not in sync as you can see here. I don’t think you realize how dangerous this is on a hard/competitive surface. Nor do I have to explain why I put health first. Physical health is mental health.” Biles wrote Friday in an Instagram post. “
