BREAKING NEWS: Simone Biles announced her departure from Paris Olympics to…

If you last watched Simone Biles compete at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, held in the summer of 2021, a lot has changed in the gymnastics superstar’s life since.

Biles left those Games with a team silver medal and a balance beam bronze, the latter a triumphant return after she had withdrawn from the women’s team final and four subsequent individual finals to prioritise her mental health as she dealt with what gymnasts call ‘the twisties.’

Her bravery sparked a global conversation about mental health in sports, but Tokyo was difficult for Biles.

“Working five years for a dream and just having to give it up, it was not easy at all,” she told NBC’s Hoda Kotb at the time.

She went further earlier this year during an interview with Alex Cooper for the ‘Call Her Daddy’ podcast.

“I just wanted to cry and be like, this was the shittiest thing ever. I don’t know why it happened. I just wanted to sulk in my feelings and to be by myself,” said Biles. “I didn’t want anybody to tell me that I was okay anymore because I’m tired of everybody telling me it’s okay. It’s okay to you. It’s not okay to me. What happened was not okay.”

In her return to the Olympic Games, Biles is using a new approach – in and out of the gym.

Those feelings of disappointment have served as motivation and the spark to change so much about how the 27-year-old has trackled training and more ahead of her third Olympic Games.

“I’m making a bigger effort into taking care of my mind and my body, which includes going to therapy once every week, usually on Thursday is kind of my therapeutic day and I try to take a day for myself,” Biles told Olympics.com last year prior to the World Championships. “It’s really important that I’m taking care of my mind as much as I do my body, especially in this sport and outside of the sport.”

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