Article 5MX18 Tokyo Olympics 2020 gymnastics: Simone Biles takes bronze in women’s beam final – as it happened

Tokyo Olympics 2020 gymnastics: Simone Biles takes bronze in women’s beam final – as it happened

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Bryan Armen Graham
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1.00pm BST

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Biles says it sucked" to pull out of four of the five event finals she qualified for. But she is grateful to have had the opportunity to bring the topic of mental health to the fore.

I think it should be talked about a lot more, especially with athletes, because I know some of us are going through the same things and we're always told to push through it," she says. But we're all a little bit older now and we can kind of speak for ourselves. At the end of the day, we're not just entertainment, we're humans and there are things going on behind the scenes that we're also trying to juggle with as well on top of sports."

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