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It has been an emotional week for team usa gymnastics. late yesterday, the group announced that simone biles will not compete in two of her four individual competitions. the vault and the uneven bars. the 24-year-old gymnast was a heavy favorite for the vault going into the games, the final going into the games, but she has struggled during her time in tokyo. miss biles explained on instagram that she has been dealing with something called the twisties. it's a kind of mental block, where gymnasts lose track of their positioning midair. simone biles' decision to withdraw has put the long-taboo ...

It has been an emotional week for team usa gymnastics. late yesterday, the group announced that simone biles will not compete in two of her four individual competitions. the vault and the uneven bars. the 24-year-old gymnast was a heavy favorite for the vault going into the games, the final going into the games, but she has struggled during her time in tokyo. ms. biles explained on instagram that she has been dealing with something called the twisties. it's a kind of mental block where gymnasts lose track of their positioning midair. simone biles's decision to withdraw has put the long-taboo i...

We need to change the culture. she carries the weight of the world on her shoulders and many times that will manifest itself as a mental block and today they call it the twisties. >> let me play a little bit of what we heard from simone earlier this week about this decision to withdraw. let's take a listen to this together. >> it's been stressful, this olympic games, just as a whole, not having an audience, there are a lot of different variables. it's been a long week, it's been a long olympic process, it's been a long year. i knew that the girls would do an absolutely great job and i didn't w...

The russian olympic committee, japan, brittain rounding out the top five. and gymnast simone biles is out of tomorrow's 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 thursday's all-around final. she has said on social media she's dealing with what's known as the twisties. and joining me now is dominique dawes, herself a 1996 olympic gold medalist and the first african-american to win an individual event medal in gymnastic on floor exercise. i've got to admit during the comme...

This is bbc news, the headlines: the usjustice department has ruled that the tax returns of former president donald trump must be handed over to a congressional committee. unlike other recent presidents, mr trump had resisted the demand that he surrender his tax records, and the justice department had backed him while he was in office. covid—19 has critically affected pregnant women in brazil, with more than 16 hundred deaths. one in five women that died from the virus didn't have access to an intensive care unit and one in three didn't have access to a ventilator. the us champion gymnast, s...