A teaser for the upcoming Simone Biles documentary has dropped online and, in it, her mom has shared her concerns for her athlete daughter.
Biles is the most decorated gymnast in history and now she has made her third Olympic Games. She will head to Paris in July in an attempt to capture gold for Team USA.
While the 27-year-old is widely considered the greatest gymnast of all time, Biles had a tumultuous experience at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, where she developed "the twisties," a condition in which gymnasts are unable to synchronize their mind and body. Doing gymnastics in such a state could potentially result in serious injuries. Biles pulled out of team competition, although she won a bronze medal on balance beam on the final day.
Now Netflix is releasing a documentary titled Simone Biles Rising, which explores Biles' "personal life, mental health journey and training ahead of a highly anticipated return to the Olympics." It is set to be released on July 17, 2024.
Newsweek emailed a spokesperson for Biles for comment on Monday.
A snippet of the documentary was uploaded to the Netflix YouTube account on July 15, in which Biles' mom, Nellie Biles, is braiding her daughter's hair while discussing her Olympic career.
"For me, it's been four years since I have actually, ah, attended, ah, an international competition so it's been a while," she said.
"There's a lot of what happened in Tokyo that tends to creep in, so those are the things we want to make sure that she doesn't go in that, in that, place again.
"Tokyo was the one time I did not braid Simone's hair. She is an adult; I mean, this girl can braid her hair, but it's not about her braiding her hair. It's that bonding, it's that not saying much, it's the touch, that's what doing her hair means."
Back in 2021, the gymnast left the competition floor after making a mistake during her performance on the vault at the Olympic Games.
Biles did a Yurchenko one-and-a-half and almost fell forward on the landing. She had planned to execute a Yurchenko vault with two-and-a-half twists, but bailed out at the last second. She only performed one-and-a-half twists, which resulted in a much lower starting score for the athlete.
She eventually pulled out of the women's Olympic gymnastics team final.
Since then, Biles has continued to redefine her performance in gymnastics by securing a spot in her third consecutive Olympic Games after victory at the U.S. trials.
Biles's impressive triumph at the trials started with a Yurchenko double pike vault that earned her an impressive 15.500. The uneven bars saw her notch a 14.200, and she finished strong with a floor exercise routine that dazzled, scoring 14.725, despite a minor step out of bounds.
In reflecting on her remarkable comeback since the 2021 Tokyo Games, Biles acknowledged the crucial role of her support system.
"Trusting the process and [my coaches], I knew I'd be back," she told U.K. newspaper The Guardian in June of this year.
In a separate interview with the media following the trials, Biles commented, as quoted by Olympics.com: "I wake up every day and choose to grind in the gym and come out here and perform for myself just to remind myself that I can still do it.
"This is definitely our redemption tour. I feel like we all have more to give, and our Tokyo performances weren't the best. We weren't under the best circumstances either. But, I feel like we have a lot of weight on our shoulders to go out there and prove that we're better athletes. We're more mature, we're smarter, we're more consistent."
The 2024 Olympic Games in Paris will begin on July 26 and will run until August 11.
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