After the terrible emotional breakdown during the gymnastics team competition at the Olympics, Simone Biles tried in every way to defeat her demons to return to compete in Tokyo. Now comes the revelation of his secret workouts, out of sight, in the gym of a local university.
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Simone Biles has tried everything to try to defeat the demons who first forced her to withdraw from the team gymnastics competition at the Olympics after a serious error in the vaulting, then to forfeit in subsequent individual competitions, until she decided to participate in the beam test, in which she won a splendid medal of bronze. An emotional breakdown which has its roots in horrible events in the past of the 24-year-old American, which presented her with the bill at the moment of maximum pressure.
These are terrible moments for a gymnast, when tensions prevent your body from going in sync with the mind and you are like “petrificati“, losing track of position in space when in flight. They are the most feared ‘twisties’, which can also endanger the life of the athlete, who risks landing ruinously on the ground. Biles has tried everything to overcome these enormous difficulties, arriving last week in ask for the availability of a secret gym where you can train out of sight, to try to find serenity and balance in the exercises.
It is the Wall Street Journal to reveal the background: Wednesday morning of last week, the phone of Kazuhiro Aoki rang. It is about a professor from Juntendo University, a facility located in Chiba, less than an hour from Tokyo. On the line was an American with a singular request: There was a gymnast who needed to use the school gym. “It’s a complicated request to fulfill“, he was replied.”But it is for Simone Biles“, the revelation that immediately opened the doors of the gym to the girl from Ohio. About 12 hours before Biles had sensationally left her teammates in the lurch, now she was immediately trying to fix the things that were wrong. succeeded only after a few days, in time for the bronze on the beam: a sure test, without shadows, and without demons.
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The answer of a champion. Who a few hours ago posted the article in which the story is told, adding thanks to those who welcomed her in time of need: “I will always be grateful to Juntendo for allowing me to come and train on my own to try to recover my skills. The Japanese are some of, if not the sweetest, people I have ever met“.