Simone Biles will not compete in the Olympics finals for two of the four individual women's gymnastics events, vault and the uneven bars, USA Gymnastics said.
for Thursday. Biles was one of the favorites to win gold in that event, having won every individual all-around competition she had entered since 2013.: "Looks like I get to put a competition Leo on just one more time. Can't wait to compete in vault finals."
Biles said her recent bout of the twisties began the morning after the preliminary competition. She said she'd been affected by it before, saying in a post, "btw it's never transferred to bars & beam for me. It strictly likes floor & vault." Then she added, "but this time it's literally on every event. which sucks... really bad."
In the first video, she says she was supposed to perform one-and-a-half more twists on her dismount. Instead, the video shows her landing on her back on the mat. She said the videos were taken Friday morning at practice. In another post she added, "it's honestly petrifying trying to do a skill but not having your mind & body in sync."
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