{"id":184853,"date":"2023-09-08T14:26:30","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T14:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansapidnews.com\/?p=184853"},"modified":"2023-09-08T14:26:30","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T14:26:30","slug":"champion-gymnast-biles-guarded-about-return-to-big-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansapidnews.com\/sport\/champion-gymnast-biles-guarded-about-return-to-big-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"Champion gymnast Biles guarded about return to big stage"},"content":{"rendered":"
The gymnast, who captured four gold medals at the 2016 Rio Olympics, said she will alter her approach to Paris, if she indeed decides to go.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n American gymnast Simone Biles aims to compete at the 2024 Paris Olympics she told American morning TV show Today<\/em>, but said she would approach what be her third Games differently.<\/p>\n Biles rebounded from a two-year break from the sport to capture a record eighth all-around title at the US Gymnastics Championships last week, and until Thursday had kept her competitive plans close to her chest.<\/p>\n “Right now, I would say that’s the path that I would love to go,” Biles told Today on Thursday.<\/p>\n “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 life,” she added.<\/p>\n “Before it was just like ‘go go go’ and then making time after.<\/p>\n “I think it’ll be different, but it’ll be good.”<\/p>\n The 26-year-old is making a comeback after pulling out of multiple events at the Tokyo Olympics due to the “twisties,” which are a temporary loss of spatial awareness in mid-air.<\/p>\n But looking as dominant as ever at the US nationals, she served notice to the gymnastics world less than a year before the Games.<\/p>\n Biles is a four-time Olympic and 19-time world championships gold medallist, and her withdrawal in Tokyo to focus on her mental health was one of the biggest stories of those Games.<\/p>\n The gymnast, who captured four gold medals at the 2016 Rio Olympics, said she will alter her approach to Paris, if she indeed decides to go.<\/p>\n “This time around it’s being intentional, going to therapy, making sure everything is aligned so that I can do my best in the gym, be a good wife, good daughter, good friend, all the good things,” she said.<\/p>\n “Everything that we’re doing leading up to this next Games or whatever is very intentional. We’ve kind of been playing it on the down-low this time making sure mentally and physically are both intact.”<\/p>\n The Olympics artistic gymnastics competition runs July 27 to August 5. <\/p>\n