Tokyo: Simone Biles has pulled out of the two Olympic finals in the Tokyo game, US gymnastics said in a statement on Saturday, with all campaigns now in serious doubts.
Great 24-year-old gymnastics came to Tokyo looking for five gold medals to match the career record of all time of the Olympics nine, but resigned during the competition for women’s team and also missed the All-Around’s title defense, citing mental health problems.
It left Biles, who won four gold medals in the Rio 2016 game, with four potential medal events in Tokyo, but he draw two of two on Saturday.
“After further consultation with medical staff, Simone Biles has decided to withdraw from the final of the event for the vault and an uneven bar,” said the USAG statement.
“He will continue to be evaluated every day to determine whether to compete in the final to exercise floors and balance beams.” Read Alsotokyo Olympics: Simone Biles comes on toxic debate in us about what is power in the withdrawal of US Gymnastics Simone biles from the team and an all-individual events at the Tokyo Olympics sparked social and political storms on Wednesday after the Troll commentator accused him of releasing his team and his country.
Biles said on Friday he struggled with a “twisties”, a mental block that had ruled out it in Tokyo.
The US Federation said Mykayla Skinner would compete in the final Vault with Jade Carey.
“We still amazed Simone, who continued to handle this situation with courage and mercy, and all the athletes who had stepped out during this unexpected state,” said the statement.
Biles posted videos on Instagram on Friday landing on his back in training, on padded bearings, and wrote that he had a problem “literally at every event, which sucks”.
Read Alsotokyo Olympics 2020: How to ‘Twisties’ Derailed Simone Biles’ Record Bidthe Superstar As, 24, blame “The Twisties” to come out dramatically from the team event in the Tokyo match, where he aims to match or even surpass all of women’s gymnastics Of the nine Olympic gold.
He said the ‘Twisties’ attack had previously taken two weeks or more to graduate, but there was “honestly not telling (in terms of” Biles, which was bombarded with support messages after his previous pull, also returned to criticism, said: ” For anyone who says I stop, I don’t stop.
My mind and body are not synchronous as you can see.
“Biles won a silver medal on a team of women because he started the final.