Simone Biles will on Tuesday attempt to conquer the 'twisties', the terrifying mental disorientation that shattered her hopes of six gold medals at the Tokyo 2020 Games, when she returns to competition in her final event, the beam finals.
Tokyo 2020 Olympics - Gymnastics - Artistic - Gymnastics Training - Ariake Gymnastics Centre, Tokyo, Japan - August 3, 2021. Simone Biles of the United States during training. REUTERS/Lindsey WassonTOKYO, Aug 3 - Simone Biles will on Tuesday attempt to conquer the "twisties", the terrifying mental disorientation that shattered her hopes of six gold medals at the Tokyo 2020 Games, when she returns to competition in her final event, the beam finals.
"Like when you are getting lost in the air and you don't quite know where you are. It's hard, man," said Dylan Schmidt, who took bronze in trampoline at Tokyo. Most agreed that it was a measure of how skilled a gymnast Biles is that she was able to land on her feet at all after her vault in the team competition went badly wrong and escape without injury.
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