![]() "We were kind of emotional when we found out that she wasn't going to continue and, you know, we always kind of put our minds in a great position. "It was definitely something that was unexpected," Chiles said at a press conference later Tuesday with her teammates. Jordan Chiles, who was in reserve for that event, replaced her.Ĭhiles, Suni Lee and Grace McCallum continued on with the competition but trailed the Russian athletes, their rivals. She was seen hugging her teammates and, as she remained on the side, she was dressed in her white Team USA warm-up gear. Soon after leaving, Biles returned to the floor before the U.S. That was the lowest vault score of Biles' Olympics career, an event in which she had dominated for years - until now. She will be assessed daily to determine medical clearance for future competitions."īiles, the reigning Olympic all-around champion and five-time medalist, initially left the floor with the team's medical trainer Marcia Faustin following her vault routine in the final, in which she bailed on her planned Amanar vault for an easier 1.5 twist and posted a 13.766. In a statement to PEOPLE and other outlets, USA Gymnastics said during the event that Biles had "withdrawn from the team final competition due to a medical issue. She hoped to reset with a break from practice on Wednesday and she told reporters she planned to return for Thursday's all-around final, though she also said on Today that she was "going to take it day by day and we're just going to see." If she had continued to compete while under such pressure and as mentally off-kilter as she felt, she said, she worried she would have risked the squad's medal chances.įor more on Simone Biles withdrawing from the gymnastics team final and other top stories, listen to our daily podcast PEOPLE Every Day. Instead she described an almost overbearing amount of stress in the lead-up to Tuesday night. Her choice was not connected to an injury, she said. Speaking after the final ended, Biles said she was "OK, just dealing with some things internally which will get fixed out in the next couple of days." In a surprise reversal of her Tokyo Olympic hopes, Simone Biles exited the women's gymnastics team final early on Tuesday night in Japan - after briefly leaving the competition floor following a botched showing on the vault, her first event.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |