Simone Biles
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209 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
Simone Biles’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I'm not familiar with other sports. So if I'm wrong, correct me. But that's kind of how it feels like. So-
I go to tell my coach. And I said, I'm done. I'm not doing anymore. Because if I survive that, I don't know how much else I can survive. Like, I always say I'm a cat with nine lives. But I think that was my ninth. I'm done. And she's like, are you sure? And I was like, yes, Jordan, gear up. You're in. You're doing the rest of the meet. I'm not. Like, I can't do it.
Internally. But I didn't want to freak out in front of the girls.
So I kept, like, as composed as I could have. And I was like, you guys got this. And then they just went, we went to the back just to get evaluated like mentally and physically. But we also didn't want to, I didn't want to scare the girls. So I was like, can we please go? And there's cameras, all the cameras rush over.
And I was just like, because I know what happened, but I also don't know what happened and why it happened. So we just went in the back. The girls are gearing up for bars. I come back out and I was like, you guys got this. You'll be fine. Trust me. And they were like, no, we can't do this without you. We're not going to win anymore.
They're freaking out because they also know what Twitter is going to say if US doesn't win. And I was like, don't worry about it. You guys are here because you're the best in the world and you will be like, go out there and do your job. But I think it was really hard on them because mentally they lost their best player, the veteran. I think it was really hard on them.
So that's something that I'll never forgive myself for, for that whole entire experience because I wish I could have been in there with them in a way that I was supposed to physically, putting up team scores, putting them, But after that, I became their loudest and best cheerleader. But I just wish it would have been contributing the way that it was supposed to happen.
And that's what I was doing. That's what I was putting myself through in the back. And that's why... I don't know how I made it that far through warmups, through competing. I don't know how I landed on my feet. And I think that's what people don't realize is like, that's not the vault that I was supposed to compete. I had a whole nother full twist that I was supposed to compete.
So they're like, she didn't want to lose. And I was like, no, no, no, no, no. I'm not like, my pride is not that big. Like, You know what I'm saying? So at that point, it's like, you know what? I need to take care of myself and I need to do what's right for my team. And yeah, I need to let my pride not get in the way and push through this just to compete, to compete at the Olympics again.
I need to go sit down, take a rest, see what's wrong mentally, and let's figure it out. But let's still give my team a chance of medal contention. Because again, what people also don't realize is if I got hurt on that vault, they couldn't replace me. So if I got hurt Since I'm on every event, it's two up, two count. We would have never won a medal.
But since what happened happened, we went to the back. At that point, they could rule it as a mental injury and all of that stuff and physical. We got to put Jordan in. People don't know that.
Doctors came over. I had to talk to my family because they were watching the Olympics and they see me get whisked to the back. So they thought I was hurt. And I'm like, yeah, I'm hurt. My heart is broken. Like everything hurts, but my knees are fine. I'm like, my brain hurts, like everything. So I called my family and it's so funny because my sister was sleeping. No.
Like bitch, I'm at the Olympics. Why are you sleeping? But there's a time change. So I get it. But everybody's in up in the house cheering for me, Simone gear on. And my sister's like, I think I'll take a nap.
Should they wake her up? No. She heard the phone ring because I called the home phone. And she said she was sleeping and she felt something was wrong. She ran to the kitchen and said, I'll answer it. And saw my name on it.
Freaky. And she answered and she said, hello. And as soon as I heard her voice, I just, I lost it.
I was like, I'm out. I'm done. And she was like, are you okay? And I was like, what? Yeah, can you hand the phone to mom? I'm like.
She was like, are you okay? Because that was her main concern. She thought I got hurt.
And at that point, like, yeah, I wish my toe was sticking on the side of my foot or my knees were cracked or something because that would have been easier to explain.
Yeah. And I'm like, yeah, sorry I came here. My brain just decided to have a malfunction and break. Yeah, how do you describe that to people?
That's what I'm saying. But then whenever I really talked about it and there were actually a lot of people that understood and we got a lot of positive feedback and that's why I was like, you know what?
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