By pulling on her white sweatsuit in the middle of the Olympic gymnastics meet, and by doing it with a gold medal hanging in the balance, Simone Biles might very well have redefined the mental health discussion. 🙏 9WWOS Olympics
"Mental health over the last 18 months is something people are talking about," Phelps said. "We're human beings. Nobody is perfect. So yes, it is OK not to be OK."
EUGENE, OR - JUNE 19: Sha'Carri Richardson competes in the Women's 100 Meter on day 2 of the 2020 U.S. Olympic Track & Field Team Trials at Hayward Field on June 19, 2021 in Eugene, Oregon. Biles, though, took things to a new level — one that now makes it thinkable to do what had been almost unthinkable only 24 hours before. She stepped back, assessed the situation and realised it would not be healthy to keep going."I have to do what's right for me and focus on my mental health, and not jeopardise my health and well-being," a tearful Biles said after the Americans won the silver medal in team competition.
The IOC-developed Athlete365 website surveyed more than 4,000 athletes in early 2020, and the results led the IOC to shift its tone from sports performance and results to mental health and uplifting the athlete's voices. "In Japan, we still don't talk about mental health," Imoto said. "I don't think there's enough of an understanding on mental health, but I think there are a lot of athletes coming out right now and saying it is common."
"To me, it was the most striking," he said. "I think we are very conscious of the increased scrutiny and external pressure and expectations that it places on our athletes."
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