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Watching. there's not an audience there to help with the adrenaline rush. there's no family. there's no friends in the stands. so it's a lot for this young 24-year-old to take on. and let's not forget how outspoken she has been about the culture of the sport of gymnastics and how much it needs to change. she's made it it very clear that she's the only survivor of the larry nassar scandal on the floor, and that's a lot of weight for a young woman to take on. >> and even, you know -- it's even beyond that. yeah, it's beyond that because what she has to do if she messes up, it can cause really se...

Gold for team usa. is some of the criticism that we've heard -- there have been people who have said, look, keri did this, why can't simone biles do this? what do you think of that comparison and do you if i if that'sles to apples? >> it's really not from a gymnastics perspective. it's not a great comparison because a physical injury is something that you as an athlete in the moment can decide, i can push this. or, this is not going to work today. mental is a lot more challenging, and i've been through that where i've gotten a mental block and i could not will my body to let go of the bar on a...

Olympics since the scandal first broke. this is her first olympics since then. a lot of pressure on her which she has voiced. maybe some post traumatic stress. i throw that out there. they're very isolated in tokyo. she doesn't have her support system there. by the way, she did this before. this is -- she had a learning experience. ghago, simone biles was competing in -- in a domestic meet in 2013. she fell. she hurt her ankle. she tried to push on. it was her coach at the time said, you need to stop competing. you know why? because in this sport, at the level at which simone biles competes, w...

This article describes what that means. gymnasts describe the �*twisties�* as mental block where you can lose your sense of spatial awareness in the air, spin out of control or find yourself unable to land. they can happen to any gymnast even if they've done the same manoeuvre for years. or even if they are one of the greatest of all time, like simone biles. and her admitting that has received a lot of support from fellow gymnasts. emily giambalvo tweeted. .. and dominique moceanu — who was an olympic gold medal gymnast atjust age 14 in 1996 replied... get worse with stress". and here's ...

But in certain high risk sports like gymnastics the threat of serious physical injury if things don't go to plan can add to that. here's wendy hilliard — a former gymnast for the us this article on the bbc news website explains exactly what that means. gymnasts described them as a mental block where you can lose your sense of spatial awareness in the air and spin out of control or find yourself unable to land. and it can happen to any gymnast even if they have done that same manoeuvre for years or evenif that same manoeuvre for years or even if they are one of the greatest of all time like s...