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(CNN) Simone Biles name is associated with. TOKYO Simone Biles withdrew from Sunday’s individual event finals in vault and uneven bars due to an inability to mentally focus enough to compete. Laurie Hernandez, American artistic gymnast and former teammate. Simone Biles shows off one of her four gold medals from the world championships. Simone Biles stumbled during her performance on Day 4, making a shaky landing after a Yurchenko one-and-a-half vault. Getty Images She was in foster care as a. "It's really dangerous if you doubt yourself a little bit, or you find it really hard, you can really really hurt yourself," Fragapane said. Updated 2337 GMT (0737 HKT) December 21, 2018. Simone Biles is consoled by coaches Cecile Landi and Laurent Landi after stumbling on the landing while competing in vault at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Simone Biles, of the United States, performs on the vault during the artistic gymnastics womens final at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Tuesday, July 27, 2021, in Tokyo. Hence the widespread support among athletes for her decision to take some time off: If she competes again too soon, the consequence could be much worse than missing a medal.īritish gymnast Claudia Fragapane, who competed at the Rio Olympics in 2016, told the BBC she could "understand exactly how Simone was feeling." Fragapane fell in two qualifying events and again after a "mental block," leading to a head injury. Biles capped a remarkable 2018 world gymnastics championships by claiming gold on floor exercise and bronze on balance beam during the event finals, giving. "She was giving us a heart attack," Jordan Chiles said, according to Washington Post Sports Reporter Emily Giambalvo. Watch four-time Olympic gold-medal gymnast Simone Biles land a Yurchenko double pike backflip on vault in competition as the first woman ever, making gymnastics history yet again. November 2, 2018: 21-year-old Simone Biles celebrates her gold medal in the Vault exercise during day nine of the 2018 FIG Artistic Gymnastics Championships at Aspire Dome in Doha, Qatar. I was really scared," Steingruber said in a 2016 documentary.īiles' teammates were reportedly really scared for her too when they saw her disoriented in the vault. "When I wanted to twist, especially on vault. Simone Arianne Biles (/ s m o n b a l z / born March 14, 1997) is an American artistic gymnast.Her seven Olympic medals tied with Shannon Miller for the most Olympic medals won by an American gymnast. Swiss gymnast Giulia Steingruber said she also got the twisties in vault 2014.