Simone Biles Turns the Olympics Upside Down
Rich and Weekly
Wondery
4.0 • 962 Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2021
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Having been favored to become the first female gymnast to win back-to-back Olympic all-around gold medals, Simone Biles has put her mental health first and she walked away from the all-around individual competition. Some say it's the end of an era — a time when athletes ignored their well-being in search of glory at all costs. But maybe the GOAT of women’s gymnastics is leading the way and the start of a new era will begin where an athlete's mental health comes first.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay Brooke I'm gonna brag for a second. I did gymnastics as a kid and I had the best cartwheel on the balance being of anyone in my class. |
| 0:17.6 | Oh my God were you the only one in the class? |
| 0:20.1 | Okay, wow if your friends can't keep you humble, who can't. I mean, I was not the only one in the class, but my |
| 0:29.2 | Olympic dreams were crushed when my family made us all move to Maryland. |
| 0:33.2 | Oh, that's too bad. |
| 0:34.4 | I mean, listen, if you would have stuck with it, |
| 0:36.0 | you could have been the greatest of all time, |
| 0:38.2 | like Simone Biles. |
| 0:40.3 | Okay, no one can be Simone Biles except Simone Biles. |
| 0:44.0 | Yeah, okay, that's true. |
| 0:45.0 | And that seems to be what Simone has recognized in herself this week, |
| 0:49.0 | because listen, Simone's got to be Simone. |
| 0:51.0 | Yeah, her surprise exit from the Olympics women's team |
| 0:54.6 | final and individual all around this week for mental health reasons has sent shock |
| 0:59.3 | waves around the world. Yeah and honestly it's an issue whose time has come and just like the goat she is |
| 1:05.2 | Simone is breaking new ground in the sports world and finally putting her own mental health first. |
| 1:11.1 | Of course there are a lot of people applauding her decision and then we have others who are calling this the end of an era. |
| 1:17.0 | But that means it may be the beginning of a new era too. |
| 1:21.0 | Yeah, from Wendary, I'm Ereisha Skinner Williams and I'm |
| 1:25.4 | Brooke Sifrin it's Wednesday July 28th and you're listening to Rich and daily. ROT, see Rumors Fly on top of the world on a diamond high. |
| 1:37.0 | I see that hair toss, give me that floss, we got the hot stars. The hot stars. |
| 1:44.0 | Hello, I'm Hannah and I'm Sirouti. |
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