Simone Biles
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209 appearances
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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It was fun and I will cherish every stop and every show that we got to put on. Totally. But it was just like behind the scenes, just nobody knew.
For me, since, again, it was a new therapist.
It was a new therapist, and every time I'm with a new therapist, it feels a little bit uncomfortable. So I like to start by saying, like, hey, I'm like an onion. Let's peel the layers. Like, I'm an open book anywhere else, but with trauma, it has to be by layers because, listen, I still have to put on face. I still have to go do these shows. I don't, you know...
So it was kind of layers by layers, but like the compartmentalizing that we do as an athlete and just as a human, I know a lot of us do it was insane and I don't know how I got through it. But honestly, I think the tour helped me get out there and realize there's more to life than gymnastics. And I honestly thought
since i didn't compete at the olympics in the way that i was supposed to and that we didn't win gold i thought nobody was going to show up to my tour stops and night after night it kind of filled my cup up because all of these girls and the fans came out and i remember after a show sometimes we get to see our family but since covid
It wasn't too much family, but my family and some of the producers were at a show and we were in the back. We were eating dinner after the show and I broke down crying and I was like, I cannot believe people are still showing up. Why are they showing up? We didn't win. And that's when I realized like, holy crap.
Yeah. But I always thought it was because that was ingrained in my head and that's what everybody told me. That's heavy. Yeah, it was crazy. I've learned so much about myself in such different Olympic experiences that now having another Olympic year in a cycle, it's traumatizing in a way to walk into. But I feel like at this point, nothing can break me.
It's like I've just been through so much, so much trauma, so much healing. I'm actually excited to see what happens after this.
That's what I wanted to do. But since we had tour, there was no way for me to really get into a gym and train like that. But I was so traumatized. So after tour, I kind of put it under the rug. That's for another time. I would go into the gym and train. Like, play around. I wouldn't say train.
I would go into the gym, go see the girls, and I would just go jump on the trampoline and do back flips, back tucks. Like, people call it back flips. That's why I'm saying back flips.
but I would go do back tugs. And even that felt kind of weird. Cause I'm like, well, but I hadn't done that in a year. Cause I took off a year or more. And, um, every time I went to the gym, it was kind of traumatizing. And so every time I'd flip, I just like flashbacks to Tokyo. Oh, I'm going to get lost. I'm going to get lost.
And, um, Laurent would always come over and he's like, okay, go into the pit. Let's do a full. And I'm like, I'm here to see the girls. I just wanted to jump on the tramp.
He would make me twist and go back to the basics. And I wasn't even training. I literally would just come visit. And he didn't want me to have that feeling because... And before that, I would watch gymnastics on TV and the girls would be twisting and I'd be like cringing. I'd be like, oh my God, oh my God, I'm going to throw up. I can't.
Because I can't picture myself doing it because I took so much off.
I would say it wasn't even in Tokyo, unfortunately. I think it's whenever I decided to come back and train in getting over those demons because there were so many days I would come back in the gym and it was like, One step forward, five steps back. One step forward, five steps back. Because as soon as I got lost, one time, get lost, pack my bags, I'm out of there.
Why am I putting myself through this? Hell no. So I would literally like, I left so many times. It was frustrating for both me and Laurent because he didn't fully understand the twisties. And for a lot of the time as gymnasts, we know it happens, but it's very unspoken of. And whenever it happens, you pretend it doesn't happen.
Why is that? It's not a good feeling. It's dangerous. It's horrible. It's scary.
Yeah, and then the other girls will look at you and they feel like once you get lost, it's going to happen to them. Got it. So it feels contagious.
So whenever they were looking at me and doing it, it's so weird. And so we had to go back to the basics. And honestly, like... The whole year, whenever Laurent, last year, he told me I was competing, I was like, how can I compete? I'm not over the twisties yet. Because every time I went to bars or beam or floor, I was praying that I did the amount of twists I was supposed to.
Like, I was so traumatized for this experience that I'm just now feeling better. And even walking into the gym, some days I feel like I'm going to get lost. Because I know why it happened, but, like, I'm like, I hope that's the reason. Right. So... Yeah, even I'm just now feeling comfortable without, yeah. So it's crazy because like I went through world championships, everybody's like, she's back.
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