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Different from mental. physical injury as an athlete you need to know physically whether or not you feel confident and comfortable going. you dig deep and fight through it or is it an injury where you feel it won't be there and i'm putting myself at risk if i go. it's the same way with mental, just harder. the mental aspect when you have this mental block in gymnastics where you won't let go of a bar or flip backwards or lose spatial awareness. sometimes it takes a week to get over that mental block. >> dana: what is your prognosis for the olympics. if biles is not competing how will we fare? ...

If you are a gymnast out there you know that when you get that mental block and you lose your spatial awareness in the air flying 10 to 15 above the ground especially doing the high level skills that she is performing that no one else in the world is doing you have to have your head in the game and you have to know that not only your body is physically ready to go but your mental status is there. for her safety it probably was the best thing. a lot of times these mental blocks don't heal overnight. >> dana: she has performed these routines and amazing fetes over and over again. a lot of pressu...

>> if your gymnast out there, you know that you hit that mental block, and you use you'r spatial awareness in the air, flying 10-15 feet above the ground, especially doing these high-level skills that simone biles is performing that no one else in the world is doing, you have to have your head in the game, you have to know that not only your body is physically ready to go, but your mental status as they are. for her safety it was probably the best thing. >> i felt like that was really good insight and reaction. real quickly this is michael phelps saying i think athletes and olympic athletes in...

During her about performance yesterday she appears to have gotten lost in the air, missing a full planned rotation. after which she decided to call it quits. she has received criticism from some but has also seemed overwhelming support from forme olympic gymnast. >> when you again have the mental clock or you won't let g of a bar or you won't flip backwards or you lose your spatial awareness, that's not easy to just overcome overnight you have to really go back to the drawing board and work on that. sometimes it takes weeks to get over that mental block. >> today, she was the star cheerleader ...

Achievements have given her an aura of invincibility. but this week, she's reminded a world that sees her as superhuman that she is human. and what a champion! i say put your mental health first, because if you don't, you're not going to enjoy your sport and you're not going to succeed as much as you want to. so it's ok sometimes to even sit out the big competitions to focus on yourself because it shows how strong of a competitor and person that you really are. the 30—time olympic and world championship medallist. biles is already the most successful us gymnast of all time, success in tokyo ...