Simone Bilesis opening up about her future as a part of the changing USA Gymnastics program.
The decorated gymnast, 22, appeared onToday, where she discussed with hostSavannah Guthrieher recent history-making performances and her thoughts looking ahead to the Tokyo Olympics in 2020.
“What has this journey been for you?” Guthrie questioned Biles.
“I feel like it’s been a roller coaster. A lot of highs, a lot of lows,” she said.
“Coming back I’m doing this just for me and I think that this is different than the last time around, for me I feel like I have nothing to prove to anyone and I think that’s what keeps me in the sport besides love and passion.”
“I feel like you can always talk the talk, but you have to show up and you have to prove. You just have to do your job at the end of the day. It would almost be better if you just proved to everyone rather than talking because talking is easy,” she told Guthrie.
The athlete also discussed her recent performances at the USA Gymnastics Championships, admitting that she “had no idea how viral it was going to go.”
“I thought that nothing was really going to happen … not too many people pay attention to gymnastics, especially in a non-Olympic year so it was crazy to see how viral it went. It just kept accumulating, and it is still going. It is kind of crazy,” she added.
Biles, a four-time Olympic gold medalist, was the first female gymnast to ever land the triple-double in competition, and just the third athlete ever, according to theWashington Post. She was also the first woman to even attempt a double-double dismount move in competition and nail it successfully, according toCNN.
“It felt incredible,” she said. “No female has ever done that skill before … I had trained it for a while now, so it was kind of just normal for me but looking back at the videos, it doesn’t look normal and I know it is not normal.”
Biles is currently preparing to represent the United States once again at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.
source: people.com
