Simone Biles Had the Terrifying ‘Twisties’ Before Withdrawing From Olympics Competition
“If you are not 100% sure of yourself, and where you are in the air, it can be very dangerous.” Jul 29, 2021
The world was stunned on Tuesday when gold medalist Simone Biles pulled out of the Olympic team gymnastics competition after fumbling her vault. Biles, 24, later explained that she was struggling with a mental performance issue that’s commonly called “the twisties” in gymnastics.
“I just don’t trust myself as much as I used to,” Biles said in a press conference after Team USA took home silver. “I’m a little bit more nervous when I do gymnastics. I feel like I’m also not having as much fun.”
What Are The Twisties? Simone Biles Gymnastics Balk Explained
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What Is Xenophobia—And How Does It Affect a Person s Health? Here s What Experts Say
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Anti-vaxxers often target specific ethic groups or communities for recruitment and messaging.
For example, lawyer and bioethicist Barbara Pfeffer Billauer of the Institute of World Politics in Washington, D.C., says such groups previously mobilized insular communities of Somalis and ultraorthodox Jews to oppose measles vaccines. Their basic message is: The disease is not dangerous, be it COVID or measles; the vaccine is dangerous; and big pharma/government is out to dupe you, she said.
To add wattage to their emotionally charged messages, anti-vaxxers like Del Bigtree of the Informed Consent Action Network reopen old wounds. I would maybe tell you to go and look at the Tuskegee experiment and ask yourself, Are they lining up for another Tuskegee using African American citizens? said Bigtree in a June 21 video posted to Facebook and YouTube.
For weeks, public health experts have talked about the importance of getting vaccinated against COVID-19. And, really, you only need to glance at the latest data to see how incredibly vital this is to ending the pandemic. Hundreds of thousands of people are being diagnosed with the virus each day, and nearly 400,000 have died, with many more expected.
But it s one thing to know you should get vaccinated against COVID-19 and it s another to actually do it. And that can be a real challenge for people with a fear of needles.
Known as trypanophobia, this is a real fear that impacts about 25% of adults, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The fear can be so bad that about 7% of adults actually avoid getting vaccinated because of it.