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Like, if you're simone biles doing moves that literally no one on earth can do other than her. how does that play into the mental health aspect, the stress that ultimately sidelined her? >> right. you know, first of all, no one is more frustrated about this and more upset than simone herself. so, you know, i can't imagine what it's like. yes, i was in the olympics, but i was never the best gymnast in the world. i mean, simone has some titles that are uniquely her own. so to come in and have everything go so different than what was expected so quickly, you know, i can't imagine what her frame o...

Gymnasts are 10 to 15 feet in the air. they're upside down, and they're twisting. so it's not just a matter of not getting a good score. it's a matter of a catastrophic fall onto the head, neck, or back. that's the difference with gymnastics versus some other sports, is it's not just an issue of not scoring well. it is an issue of getting pretty seriously injured. >> yeah. i want to ask you about some of the criticism that she's received. because as an olympian, i'm sure that you have had to deal with the public in your own athletic career, and a lot of people either don't know simone's story ...

Throwing out the harshest criticism that you can possibly find in the heat of the moment somehow makes you a real tough guy. and it's pretty pathetic, to be honest. athletes all over the world in every sport know exactly what simone is going through, just not at this particular time in their career. coaches know exactly what she's talking about. they've all tried to deal with their own athletes who are going through this. so it is very hurtful, even for someone like me who, you know, hasn't experienced anything like this since my career ended a very long time ago, but i remember it distinctly....

Once that threshold is crossed where you, me, anybody else out there, it's a very different version of ourself. simone realizes that about herself. >> what risk would she have posed to herself had she competed? the reason i ask is when you watch her do what she does with the twists and the turns and the flips, her head is circling six inches off the ground at a velocity i can't begin to imagine. >> yeah. that's a great question. i actually talked to two top gymnastic coaches about this very question. what they told me was this, simone's level of skill is like nothing else the world has ever se...