Simone Biles is opening up about how she felt after she suffered the “twisties” while competing at the Summer Olympics in Tokyo in 2021.
The phenomenon occurs when a gymnast loses track of where they are in midair, making it hard to safely land. It “So, I open landed like that and as soon as I land, I kind of grin and I’m like, ‘S---,’” she said in a preview clip, provided exclusively to TODAY.com, from her interview on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast. The full episode will be released April 17. in Tokyo after the twisties episode. She said she believed everybody was going to have it in for her after letting them down.
Biles also said she's made a point of being more diligent when it comes to looking after herself since Tokyo. “I think I have to take care of myself a little bit more and listen to my body and making sure that I’m making time for the important things in my life, rather than before, it was just ‘go, go, go,’ and then making time after,” she told TODAY in her September interview.
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