![]() ![]() "I could have hurt myself." Stills of Biles in midair from that terrifying vault show her looking discombobulated. "I had no idea where I was in the air," she later said. Simone Biles gets lost in the air during her vault, failing to complete her full rotations and stumbling on her landing. She wasn't able to use her limbs to control her tumbling and didn't know where she'd land. Biles videos were also captioned with her response to those who believe she 'quit' the Olympics when she chose to withdraw. Chinas Guan Chenchen and Tang Xijing won gold and silver. On Thursday, the gymnast, 24, shared clips of her at practice in Tokyo. When Biles launched herself off the vaulting table and started spinning, her brain suddenly felt disconnected from her body. Biles returned to Olympic competition, winning bronze in the individual balance beam. Without Biles' typically top-notch proprioception, a sense of where your body is in space, gymnasts crash, CNN's Elle Reeve, a former competitive gymnast, reported. You're mostly relying on muscle memory from years of training to make sure moves unfold like they're meant to. Biles said she'd experienced a bit of 'the twisties' in practice, or essentially getting lost in the air because the body and brain aren't communicating perfectly. When you're flying through the air that fast, there's not much margin for error. As many gymnasts have pointed out, she's lucky she managed to land on her feet. But Biles had suddenly lost the ability to sense where she was while hurdling through the air. ![]() To the untrained eye, it looked like she messed up. Simone Biles, of the United States, performs on the vault during the artistic gymnastics womens final at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Tuesday, July 27, 2021, in Tokyo. The star of Team USA meant to do 2.5 turns in midair but only did 1.5 and landed with a big correction. Lots of people learned a new phrase this week: the "twisties," which is what gymnasts call the mental and physical anomaly Simone Biles experienced during her vault at the women's team final at the Tokyo Olympics. ![]()
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