After the terrible emotional breakdown during the gymnastics team competition at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics , Simone Biles tried by all means to defeat her demons to compete again in Tokyo. But it has not been until now that it has been revealed that in order to return to the Olympics, he trained in a secret gym located, out of everyone’s eyes, at a local Tokyo university.
Simon Biles’ secret gym that helped him return to the Tokyo Olympics
Simone Biles tried them all to try to defeat the demons that first forced her to withdraw from team gymnastics competition at the Olympics after a pony jumping mistake, and then to give up individual competitions , until she decided to participate in the balance beam final in which he won a splendid bronze medal . An emotional breakdown that has its roots in horrible events in the past of the 24-year-old American (she was abused for years by her team doctor), and that ended up creating in her a state of anxiety that affected her Olympic performance.
Without a doubt, and despite the criticism from many for withdrawing in the middle of the Olympic competition, it is clear that the last weeks have been terrible for the gymnast. Some experts have explained that these “demons” in Biles’ head can play a real trick on him if he is doing any exercise. Apparently, they are tensions that prevent your body from synchronizing with the mind and you are like “petrified”, losing awareness of your position in space when you are in flight. They are the dreaded ” twisties “, which can also endanger the life of the athlete , who runs the risk of falling badly on the ground. Biles has tried everything to overcome these enormous difficulties, arriving last week to request the availability of a secret gym where he can train away from everyone’s gaze, to try to find serenity and balance in his exercises.
It was the Wall Street Journal newspaper that revealed this curious story: it was on Wednesday morning of last week that the phone rang for Kazuhiro Aoki , a professor at Juntendo University , a facility located in Chiba, less than a mile away. Tokyo time . On the other end of the line was an American with a singular request: There was a gymnast who needed to use the university gym. ” It is a complicated request to fulfill, ” they replied. ” But it’s for Simone Biles, ” the revelation immediately caused the gym doors to open to the Ohio girl. About 12 hours after Biles left the Olympics, the young woman was already trying to fix things that were wrong. He did it only after a few days, in time for bronze on the balance beam – a sure test, no shadows and no demons.
Thanks to this facility that nobody knew about, until now, Biles was able to recover and in addition to winning his medal, he wanted to thank those who lent him the gym. In fact, the gymnast responded on social networks to those who have revealed the history of the gym saying : « I will be eternally grateful to Juntendo for allowing me to come to train just to try to regain my skills. The Japanese are some of the people, if not the sweetest, that I have ever met .
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