The chatter renewed the scrutiny around mental health that fellow Olympian and tennis star Naomi Osaka brought up earlier this year when she withdrew from the French Open to take care of her own mental health.Īnd American swimming champion Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympian of all time with 28 medals (including 23 gold), has also become vocal about the weight of the wins and losses on elite athletes ever since he retired after the 2016 Games in Rio.
The news that one of Team USA’s most popular and celebrated Olympic stars was pulling herself from the competition to take care of her mental health blew up on social media this week, with Biles’ name and #MentalHealthMatters still trending on Twitter on Wednesday, a good 24 hours after news broke that she had dropped out of the gymnastics team final, and the U.S. Related: Simone Biles’s Olympics withdrawal shines a light on mental-health issues in the workplace, experts say On the flip side, sexual trauma survivors may also become overachievers and become addicted to work, which carries its own risks of burnout and neglecting their health and personal relationships. A related CDC report found that each victim of sexual violence lost the equivalent of $730 in short-term productivity, on average, and there was $110 billion in lost short-term productivity across all victims’ lifetimes.
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Victims may suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, and experience re-occurring reproductive, gastrointestinal, cardiovascular and sexual health problems, which can certainly interfere with their personal and professional lives.
And as she tweeted at the time: “It is impossibly difficult to relive these experiences, and it breaks my heart even more to think that as I work toward my dream of competing in Tokyo 2020, I will have to continually return to the same training facility where I was abused.” In fact, it’s been three years since Biles revealed that she was one of the more than 100 female gymnasts abused by convicted former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar. But we should be out here having fun, and sometimes that’s not the case.”īut as many of her supporters on social media noted, it’s been more than just a long year. So just a lot of different variables, and I think we’re just a little bit too stressed out. “It’s been really stressful, this Olympic Games,” she said. Related: ‘We stand by Simone’: Sponsors Athleta, Visa, Uber support Simone Biles’ withdrawal from Tokyo Olympics events And she will continue to be evaluated daily to determine whether or not she will participate in the individual finals next week.īiles told the media on Tuesday that she removed herself from the competition following a poor vault in order to protect herself from getting seriously hurt, as well as to ensure that she wouldn’t cost Team USA a medal “because of my screw up.” She also emphasized that while she was not physically injured, she needed to work on her “mindfulness” and give herself a break. That was gymnastics coach Andrea Orris standing up for Simone Biles after the four-time gold medalist suddenly withdrew from the team gymnastics final at the Tokyo Olympics on Tuesday.īiles, 24, has also pulled out of the all-around competition later this week, where she was favored to take home another gold medal, in order to focus on her mental health, according to a statement from USA Gymnastics. and some people can still honestly say ‘Simone Biles is soft.
All of this while maintaining her responsibilities to her endorsement deals, the media, personal relationships, etc.
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““We are talking about the same girl who was molested by her team doctor throughout her entire childhood and teen years, won the world all-around championship title while passing a kidney stone, put her body through an extra year of training through the pandemic, added so much difficulty to her routines that the judges literally do not know how to properly rate her skills they are so ahead of her time.
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