Simone Biles: Rising

You Can’t Make This Up

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4.2 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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She’s considered the Greatest of All Time: a gymnast so special that five of the most difficult skills are named after her. But Simone Biles stunned the world when she withdrew from the 2020 Olympics, citing a need to protect her mental health. But after a break from the sport, the champion returned to the gym and confronted her physical and emotional challenges. The Netflix documentary series Simone Biles: Rising follows the gymnast’s journey from disappointment in Tokyo to her return to the Olympic stage in Paris. In this episode of You Can't Make This Up, host Rebecca Lavoie interviews director Katie Walsh. SPOILER ALERT! If you haven't watched Simone Biles: Rising yet, make sure to add it to your watch-list before listening on. Listen to more from Netflix Podcasts.

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0:00.0	I'm Rebecca Lervoy and this is You Can't make this up as the podcast where we uncover the true stories behind your favorite
0:19.1	Netflix documentaries and films.
0:21.3	On today's episode, we take a closer look at the Netflix
0:24.2	documentary series Simone Biles Rising. I've always had really good intuition
0:31.3	about things like freaky I never tell people about it
0:36.2	But I can feel a lot of things they're gonna happen before it does happen and unfortunately I felt that way about the Olympics.
0:44.0	She's widely considered the greatest of all time, a gymnast so special that five of the most difficult
0:50.2	skills are named after her.
0:52.6	But Simone Biles stunned the world when she withdrew from the 2020 Olympics, citing
0:57.2	a need to protect her mental health.
0:59.9	But after a break from the sport, the champion returned to the gym
1:03.1	and confronted her physical and emotional challenges.
1:06.6	The Netflix documentary series, Simone Biles Rising,
1:10.2	follows the gymnast journey from disappointment in Tokyo to her return to the Olympic stage in Paris.
1:16.0	It provides a deep dive into her life story and her challenges off the mat.
1:21.0	The comeback is more personal
1:24.1	because I had been fighting my own demons for so long. And I'm joined now by Director Katie Walsh. Katie, welcome to you can't make this up.
1:33.0	Thank you so much. I'm welcome to you can't make this up.
1:42.6	Thank you so much.
1:43.7	I'm excited to be here.
1:45.5	So this is a big question, but for the Martians among us
1:48.5	who may have beamed in from space,
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