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If you come and you say im not okay right now, that people will say okay, i understand, lets set you back and make sure that you are all right. and those kinds are the people you have to have around you. the fact that she has pulled out from the uneven bars and the vault makes total sense to me, given the conditions that shes having right now. vault, she had that near crash when she was in the finals before she withdrew, so not surprised she pulled out there. uneven bars has always been her weak...

Individual finals for vault and uneven bars after explaining shes battling the twisties. its a frightening condition for gymnasts that causes them to be disoriented and lose track of position midair. biles posting videos she later deleted of what she was going through. you can see that shes unable to land any of her dismounts during practice on the uneven bars and you hear her frustration. at this point, it remains unclear if biles is going to compete in the two remaining individual events. the ...

Ultimately made the choice that carrie and dominique could not? >> i had not spoken to any of them directly about that situation. the gymnastics coaches for listening as an athlete and for me personally, i had a great support system in my coach and my parents even reminding me every single day, youre not a gymnast. gymnastics is what you do. so that really helped me handle pressure and also remember i had a confident voice to share what i was feeling. i had a vault i was very scared of as a gymn...

Biles says shes been suffering from what gymnasts call the twisties, a debilitating mental block that keeps them from performing moves theyve done thousands of times before. you basically lose track of where you are in the air. joining me now, cnn sport, andy scholes here in atlanta. it is surprising that biles pulled out of more events? >> reporter: well, michael, we certainly knew it was a possibility after what biles had been saying on instagram. as you mentioned, she says shes suffering from...

Leaders or asserting that we have a voice or asserting that something means more than our labor. what she did was to explode the strong black woman stereotype that black women have been fighting against for decades, to say who i am when im not on the balance beam, when im not on the vault, that matters, too. and i dont owe my country my life or my body at the expense of my own mental health. that is a political movement that has absolutely met its time. it is past time coming, and of course blac...

Want no part of. >> reporter: yes, ryan, as youre twisting and turning in the air, you lose your place in the air, and thats incredibly dangerous because it means you could land in a horrible position, you could injure yourself, you could paralyze yourself. thats the danger here. and she felt that, in that one vault, thats the only event of her olympic games, just a couple of seconds, thats all shes competed in these olympic games, thats what she felt. she said last night she is still experienci...

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Simone biles has decided to withdraw from the event finals for vault and uneven bars. shell continue to be evaluated daily to determine whether to compete in the finals for floor exercise and balance beams. unquote. and simone biles reveals she still has the twisties. thats what gymnasts call the condition in which gymnasts lose their position in midair. listen, this is a real thing. it can be extremely dangerous. >> a lot of gymnasts said it affected them in the past. american gymnast mikaela s...

The russian olympic committee, japan, brittain rounding out the top five. and gymnast simone biles is out of tomorrows vault and uneven parallel bars finals. the six-time olympic medallist widely considered the greatest gymnast of all time withdrew from competition tuesday and sat out thursdays all-around final. she has said on social media shes dealing with whats known as the twisties. and joining me now is dominique dawes, herself a 1996 olympic gold medalist and the first african-american to ...

You know, i think thats what people need to focus on. you know, if her team isnt upset with her, if her team is supporting her, then, you know, for goodness sake, the general public can. >> yeah. i think, as you said, some of the criticism is just pathetic, given that shes the greatest gymnast of all time. she can do things literally no one has ever done. and shes overcome so much in her life. missy marlowe, thank you so much for sharing your story with us and giving us an idea of what she might...