Simone Biles Is Back: Says Her 20th World Championship Win Is As Good As Her First

Simone Biles
Simone Biles

After a two-year break, Simone Biles was back to her winning ways as she again won a World Championship gold medal, her 20th. Her win at Antwerp in Belgium comes exactly a decade after she initially crested at the premier event. It was in 2013 that Simone Biles debuted at the Gymnastics World Championship at Antwerp. She brought home the first of her gold medals from that event at just 16 years old. Now she has done it on the same stage. But she has had many achievements to her name in the past 10 years.

Simone Biles’s win at 26 years is the oldest for an American woman at any world championship. It has been a spectacular comeback by the legend. It is her 1st international appearance in 2 years. She backed out of the Olympics in 2021 after she had problems with her spatial awareness. And she made the best use of the break to recover and come back strongly.

Simone Biles Is Candid About Her Emotional Breakdown And Subsequent Therapy

Biles says that the prolonged break was necessary for her. She says that her body forced her to go into recovery mode. It was important that she prioritize her emotional health. She says that it was important to create awareness about what she said was an unseen injury.

Simone Biles said that was also important that athletes feel empowered and be open about it. She is open about her recovery. She said that she has handled her trauma with sustained therapy and goes every week. Working on her healing has been a blessing, she says.

Simone Biles still has the finals of the all-around competition before her. The individual events are scheduled for this weekend. She is the first to achieve the Yurchenko double pike at a competitive level. The difficult combination that she performed at the championship has been named the Biles II, the fifth original routine named after the legendary athlete.