In May, Japanese tennis player Naomi Osaka withdrew from the French Open to protect her mental health, a move publicly supported by several sportspeople including heptathlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson and basketball player Stephen Curry.īiles is the most successful US gymnast of all time, and winner of four gold medals and a bronze at Rio 2016. At the end of the day we don't want to be carried out of there on a stretcher." Simone Biles left the gym before later returning in a tracksuit to cheer on her team-mates I feel like a lot of athletes speaking up has really helped. "I didn't want to go out and do something stupid and get hurt. We're people at the end of the day and sometimes you just have to step back. There were a couple of days when everybody tweets you and you feel the weight of the world. "We have to protect our minds and our bodies and not just go out and do what the world wants us to do. I just think mental health is more prevalent in sports right now. "After the performance I did, I just didn't want to go on," she said. Biles, 24, scored 13.766 - her lowest Olympic vault score - before withdrawing from the event.
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