FOX News Rundown Extra: A Legendary Gymnast On Simone Biles' Exit And Why The Sport Needs To Change

The Fox News Rundown

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Politics, Daily News, News

3.4 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

When gymnastics star and four-time gold medalist Simone Biles pulled out of two Olympic competitions last week it did more than shock the world. Her decision also put a spotlight on the sport, the pressure we put on young athletes and the issue of mental health. On the FOX News Rundown earlier this week, host Chris Foster spoke to three-time Olympian and gold medalist Dominique Dawes about Biles and the physical and emotional challenges of being an Olympic gymnast. Dawes described what she believes Biles went through before she pulled out of last week's team competition and how the lack of crowds at the Tokyo games could be impacting the competitors. Our original conversation with Dominique Dawes was too long and we could not include all of it in our original segment. On FOX News Rundown Extra, you will hear our complete interviews with the Olympic gold medalist and learn more about her views on the sport of gymnastics and how she is using her academy to help change its culture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.0	This is the Fox News Run Down Extra.
0:30.0	I'm Chris Foster.
0:34.7	Dominique Dawes is one of the most successful gymnast in American history.
0:38.0	She was on Team USA for 10 years, one of three women from any country on three Olympic
0:42.4	medal winning teams.
0:43.7	Taking home a bronze at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, the gold in Atlanta in 96, and another bronze
0:49.5	in Sydney in 2000.
0:51.0	She's the first black gymnast, man or woman from any country to win an Olympic
0:54.8	gold. In 96, she also won a bronze herself in artistic gymnastics, the first African-American
1:00.0	to medal in that event. Despite her success, she says she wouldn't call it fun
1:03.7	looking back and we wanted to speak with her about the current star gymnast Simone
1:07.6	Biles mental struggles at the game's going on now in Japan. We didn't include the
1:11.5	entire conversation in the regular weekday
1:13.5	podcast so this is that plus what we cut out. We spoke on the day
1:17.2	Senesa Lee from Minnesota was named overall Olympic gold metal
1:20.3	champ at the games and now Dominique Dawes on the Fox News rundown extra.
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