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Simon Bales who is considered the best gymnast in the world decided to retire after one unsuccessful exercise. What happened to her there on the mat and why did she come out the biggest there is?


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Simon Bales' retirement is perhaps the greatest achievement of her career

Great, very high expectations rested on the shoulders of American gymnast Simon Bales at the Tokyo Olympics, and yet a moment after an unsuccessful exercise she announced her retirement due to a mental problem.

What pressure are these great athletes facing and why should Bales get a gold medal anyway?

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Dr. Ilan Rabinovich

Wednesday, 28 July 2021, 11:19 Updated: 12:19

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She was supposed to be the big and undisputed star of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. The gymnastics queen, perhaps the most famous athlete in the world, has six Olympic medals (including a silver team whose team won yesterday).

The American National Mammy and the one that billions of married women have been


to.

Simon Bales has become a legend and a myth and is only twenty-four years old.

Yesterday she redefined her title as a tremendous athlete.



The promo for the real sensation began last night when she retired from the group gymnastics finals, and continued today when she announced that she had also retired from the individual competition.

It turns out that not everyone has a replacement and in her retirement, Bales left the team gold medal to the Russian team.

She left the hall after an unsuccessful landing from the jumping horse in the first exercise she did and returned only to cheer on her teammates when she said: "This is the important moment in your life, you have been preparing for it for years. You are ready and I believe in you."

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To the professionals who watched from the sidelines, it was clear that Bales' personal drama was greater than what the public sees and directs.

Bales not only made a mistake in landing, she lost concentration and made a mistake in the jump.

A real queen.

Bales and her coach (Photo: AP, Gregory Bull)

Simon Bales is an icon. The showcase of the Olympics. This is why the Olympic Committee intervened immediately with grave concern for the continuation of the competition. Rumors spread everywhere, the American media was flooded with Pike News, the American people held their breath and then like a real star Bales told the world directly: "I have no physical injury. There is an injury to the mental preparation. I can not concentrate and get the job done. After my show I just did not want to continue "More. I was not injured. Just a minor injury to my pride. I need to focus on my mental health." She added like a real queen: "We must protect our head and body and not just do what the world wants us to do. I think mental health is much more relevant to sport now."



In a post she posted on Instagram, she wrote: "It has not been an easy day or my best day. I honestly feel like the weight of the world is on my shoulders sometimes. I know I can make it seem like stress does not affect me, but heck, sometimes it's hard "The Olympics are not a joke, but I'm glad my family has been able to be with me virtually. They're the most important thing to me in the world."

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A post shared by Simone Biles (@simonebiles)

This morning, as mentioned, the American Gymnastics Association announced that Bales will not participate in the multi-fight final, which will take place tomorrow.

Jade Carey, another gymnast from the group of the US replacement for it. It is still unclear whether Bales stabilize its own greater competition, scheduled to take place in the coming days.



"After further medical examination," read a statement issued by a group of US gymnastics, "Simone Biles Retired from the multi-event competition at the Olympics, in order to concentrate on her mental health.

We wholeheartedly support Simon's decision, and applaud her courage, and the fact that she concentrated on her personal competence.

Her courage shows, once again, why she is a role model for so many people. "

A human daughter and not these

Simone Bailes is not only the first athlete to perform gymnastic exercises at difficulty level 5.8, she is also the senior athlete who dared to open a window to her soul in the statement: I am human, do not belong to the generation of gods.

I am sensitive and vulnerable and I am not able to do what you expect of me.

Simon's only opponent in the gym is Bales

A month before the Olympics I was in the US for work and watching a TV interview with Bales. The presenter explained that Simon's only opponent in the gym was Bales. She in turn spoke of her fear of "bad landings".

Talked about the apprehension.

Bales looks at her friends from the sidelines (Photo: Reuters)

It is now mandatory for Olympic athletes to include a psychiatrist or sports psychologist in their professional team. The winner of the Israeli silver medal, Yael Arad, spoke about it very openly. She explained how much the mental preparation and mental help were a crucial factor in her success and her standing on the podium of the winners.



The pressure that athletes are under is insanely intense. Years of preparation drain into one day of competitions while giving up a normative childhood, a Sisyphean and routine routine, which includes morning and evening training, weight room exercises, flexibility and fat percentage testing, improving techniques and maximizing physical potential, while mixing computerized nutrition. , Travel to competitions at a young age and without a family all over the world. Everything is planned, there is no room for spontaneity. The medal is the appearance of everything. Who remembers the fourth place? The game is: all or nothing - The winner takes it all.

An athlete must be tasked with an endless hunger for success, endless drives, failure akin to death and intense perfectionism while striving for perfection and perfection.

The sympathetic autonomic nervous system works overtime with a constant survival feeling of fight or flight - bread or flight.

Being in such situations is not stressful and stressful is not normal

The benefits of being a super athlete make them cringe. Especially when they reach the summit. So the pressure is enormous. The loneliness there is unbearable. The eyes of the whole world were waiting to see Simon Bales and she could not stand the pressure that was affecting.



Perfectionism becomes restlessness in the head: sleep disturbances, stress, disturbing thoughts that do not give rest and are difficult to concentrate begin to increase, compulsions (personal rituals) increase and do not let go, physical symptoms of gastrointestinal distress, breathing and chest tightness. Then the mistakes begin and a snowball rolls down a slope from which there is no going back. Every mistake raises pressure, and increased pressure creates more mistakes. Need to be a really great athlete to ask for a cut, time out. Admit it is big on him and he must reset.



There is no dividing line between body and mind.

They are one - piece.

There must not be a dividing line between mental problems and physiological problems.

Both are health issues.

A mental problem is a problem of decreased neurotransmitters - neurotransmitters (such as serotonin) in the limbic lobe, in the central autonomic nervous system.

Physical problem of imbalance due to insufficient mental preparation.



In the case of Simon Bales there will be no further opportunity.

She knows this is her last Olympics.

Giving up a lot of battle for her might be the hard decision she will make all her life, but she had no choice.

All that is left is to stand aside and cheer for a true great athlete.

Join the spokeswoman for the U.S. delegation and secretly hope that maybe Cinderella will get up and return new and relaxed to the individual device competitions next week.

After all, Cinderellas like Simon Bales are one-time.

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