Simone Biles makes shocking revelation about her body ‘shutting down’ at 2024 Paris Olympics
The 11-time Olympic winner took to social media to make a confession about how the years of training may have taken a toll on her physical health
With three gold medals and a silver at the 2024 Paris Olympics, Simone Biles became the most decorated gymnast in history. However, the 27-year-old athlete now thinks that her retirement might be near. Following her tragic fall in the Balance Beam Final that cost her the gold medal, Biles made a shocking revelation about herself.
Simone Biles reveals her body ‘shut down’ at the Olympics
The 11-time Olympic winner took to social media to make a confession about how the years of training may have taken a toll on her physical health. “I am really tired,” Biles said in a video shared on TikTok. Despite recording the video on Sunday, she didn’t post it online till Tuesday.
“I feel like my body is slowing starting to shut down, like, it’s ready to be done,” she continued as he did her makeup ahead of the Uneven Bars at the Olympics. As Biles was a reserve, she did not compete in the gymnastics event. It was a day after she recorded the video that she fell from the balance beam on Monday.
However, Biles’ fall was not entirely due to her body shutting down. Following the event, the gymnastics champ said that her performance was “really weird” and “awkward” because the ambience at this year’s games was off.
“You’re trying to stay in your zone, and then people start cheering, and then the shushing gets louder, so really, they should be shushed because they’re louder,” she told reporters, per USA Today. “We’ve asked several times if we can have some music, or some background noise, so I’m not really sure what happened there. But, yeah, not our favorite. None of us liked it,” Biles added.
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Simone Biles speaks out on MyKayla Skinner Olympics clash
Tuesday, just as Biles was speaking to People, Skinner rushed to social media to claim that she had gotten death threats in response to Biles’ comments. Skinner begged the gymnast to tell online bullies to stop targeting her.
After the USA won gold in the team final last week, Biles seemed to take aim at Skinner. She posted a picture of her squad with the comment, “Lack of talent, lazy Olympic champions,” alluding to Skinner’s pre-Games critique of the team’s commitment.
‘It’s important because you have to teach them to use their voices,’ Biles was quoted as saying. ‘And if not, you’re a voice for the voiceless, which is okay.
‘I just felt like it was right in that moment to stand up for them, because they’re so young and they haven’t fully stood in their power yet.
‘For somebody to stand up, I know it meant a lot for my teammates.’
An emotional Skinner took to Instagram on Tuesday, sharing a four-minute video explaining the impact of Biles’ remarks about her.
‘I sincerely hoped that this topic wouldn’t have to be revisited, but unfortunately things have really gotten out of hand lately,’ Skinner said. ‘So, to Simone, I am asking you directly and publicly to please put a stop to this.
‘Why I’m here is because four weeks ago, I made a comment about work ethic and what seems to be taking place with the rising generation,’ Skinner said at the top of her Instagram video.
‘To be totally clear, I take 100 percent for poorly articulating the point I was trying to make,’ she continued. ‘The last thing I wanted was to cause harm or offend our US Olympic Team.
‘I posted a video apology on Instagram and I followed up with a written apology and I sent individual messages to each of the women on the team,’ Skinner said. ‘Only Simone had responded, and she told me that she was proud of me.
‘You guys can imagine my surprise last week when I was celebrating our team winning gold, just to see this all brought up all over again by a caption on an Instagram post.
‘If Simone truly believes that I called our team lazy and lacking talent and that’s how she really feels, I am really heartbroken over it.
‘But not just heartbroken because it isn’t how I feel… but heartbroken because Simone’s latest [social media] post and others that followed it fueled another wave of hateful comments, DMs, articles and emails – hate that includes death threats to me, my family and even my agent.
‘My family and my friends don’t deserve to be caught in the crossfire here. They’ve done nothing.
‘So, to Simone, I am asking you directly and publicly to please put a stop to this,’ she concluded. ‘Please ask your followers to stop.’
Biles has yet to respond to Skinner since her video was posted on Instagram.
After Biles’ post on Instagram, the gymnast also revealed that she had been blocked by Skinner as well.
The 27-year-old won three Olympics golds and a silver medal in Paris, cementing her place as USA’s most successful gymnast ever.
