Millions of people are closely watching the performance of Olympic Great Simone Biles as she competes for gold.

Biles' stunning athletic feats are the primary reason of course, but she has also helped open the door wider to conversations around mental health and the incredible pressure to compete, as have other Olympic greats like Michael Phelps, Naomi Osaka, and Jamie Anderson.

Omni had a conversation just before the Games began with Apollo Ono, the most decorated American

Olympian of the Winter Games.

He's now an entrepreneur and motivational speaker.

Apollo Ono, welcome back to the news hour.

Thanks for joining us.

Thanks for having me.

So you are so respected and so admired not only by so many fans but also by so many athletes

looking to follow in your footsteps. I'm curious have any of this year's

Olympians reached out to you looking for advice and if so what kind of questions do they ask you?

Well I mean first off I'm honored that you would say that you know my competing days feel like a lifetime ago and I get probably just as excited as

anyone else who's watching this new or researching group of athletes go and

compete again in Paris. I don't communicate with that many of this I would say this team you know obviously I'm a winter Olympic athlete so a lot of my

Existing relationships go back into that realm but I'll be in Paris and I'll be cheering those athletes on and it'll be very interesting to see given all of what has happened over the past four years globally

both on terms of what is in these athletes minds, how they prepared, the entire landscape of the world,

how much have people gone through in terms of resilience.

And I think we need these games.

We need these games badly.

What do you mean by that when you say we need these games and especially for these

athletes who, as you say, have been coming out of these last few years when we know we've seen a worsening

of a mental health crisis.

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