Simone Biles

I changed my routine because I didn't have to twist. Flipping wasn't necessarily the problem. It was flipping and twisting. And so one of the gyms there let me go train there. And I have, like, videos from that too. And so they let me change my dismount. And I've done a full in for, like, eight or, like, seven years or eight years. I hadn't done a double pike in, like, that long.

So going back and trying to control that, and I kept over-rotating it, was insane, I was so scared because my dismount is typically harder. And so I was like, okay, I can still do beam if we change my dismount. And we were able to change it and at that point I didn't think I was gonna medal. I was like, I just wanna go out there, compete, because this is what I came here to do.

So going back and trying to control that, and I kept over-rotating it, was insane, I was so scared because my dismount is typically harder. And so I was like, okay, I can still do beam if we change my dismount. And we were able to change it and at that point I didn't think I was gonna medal. I was like, I just wanna go out there, compete, because this is what I came here to do.

So going back and trying to control that, and I kept over-rotating it, was insane, I was so scared because my dismount is typically harder. And so I was like, okay, I can still do beam if we change my dismount. And we were able to change it and at that point I didn't think I was gonna medal. I was like, I just wanna go out there, compete, because this is what I came here to do.

Because I pulled out of every final, but every time I pulled out of a final, I felt like it was another night.

Because I pulled out of every final, but every time I pulled out of a final, I felt like it was another night.

Because I pulled out of every final, but every time I pulled out of a final, I felt like it was another night.

so um i got to do beam and i was really excited and then of course a lot of people hated that well of course she's gonna do it for herself and i was like you don't see me twisting do you still not twisting but um yeah once the score came up i was like oh thank god like made a beam routine and then we saw that i was gonna medal and i hit cecile and i said A bronze?

so um i got to do beam and i was really excited and then of course a lot of people hated that well of course she's gonna do it for herself and i was like you don't see me twisting do you still not twisting but um yeah once the score came up i was like oh thank god like made a beam routine and then we saw that i was gonna medal and i hit cecile and i said A bronze?

so um i got to do beam and i was really excited and then of course a lot of people hated that well of course she's gonna do it for herself and i was like you don't see me twisting do you still not twisting but um yeah once the score came up i was like oh thank god like made a beam routine and then we saw that i was gonna medal and i hit cecile and i said A bronze?

And after Rio, I got a bronze on beam. And I was shunned. And people were like, throw that medal away. You should have got a gold because I did mess up. But there's no telling what the medal would have been. But I did mess up. So I ended up with a bronze. And so... I was scarred from having a bronze medal because I never really talked about my bronze because people made me so ashamed of it in Rio.

And after Rio, I got a bronze on beam. And I was shunned. And people were like, throw that medal away. You should have got a gold because I did mess up. But there's no telling what the medal would have been. But I did mess up. So I ended up with a bronze. And so... I was scarred from having a bronze medal because I never really talked about my bronze because people made me so ashamed of it in Rio.

And after Rio, I got a bronze on beam. And I was shunned. And people were like, throw that medal away. You should have got a gold because I did mess up. But there's no telling what the medal would have been. But I did mess up. So I ended up with a bronze. And so... I was scarred from having a bronze medal because I never really talked about my bronze because people made me so ashamed of it in Rio.

And so whenever I got that bronze, you couldn't tell me that it was bronze. It felt like a gold to me. Right, you're like, I'm just happy I got a medal.

And so whenever I got that bronze, you couldn't tell me that it was bronze. It felt like a gold to me. Right, you're like, I'm just happy I got a medal.

And so whenever I got that bronze, you couldn't tell me that it was bronze. It felt like a gold to me. Right, you're like, I'm just happy I got a medal.

I'm happy I got back out there.

I'm happy I got back out there.

I'm happy I got back out there.

I'll take a bronze. Yeah, so it's just like... From one spectrum to the other, from having a real bronze to a Tokyo bronze, it's like polar opposites. Like I'm swinging that thing around.