She's pulled off moves no other gymnast ever has. She's one of the greatest athletes of all time and has been a voice for sexual assault survivors.
This is the story of Simone Biles.
This is the story of Simone Biles.
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00:00Think that was the misconception was you couldn't be fun have a personality and be good. You could only be good and that's it
00:24Most people think I'm not human but I feel like I go through some of the same problems
00:29They do so I feel like if they can relate then they can
00:32Kind of think I'm normal
00:34My parents saved me they've set huge examples of how to treat other people and
01:04They've been there to support me since day one
01:14I kind of knew I wanted to be a gymnast from the start
01:17It's the very first sport I tried and I had a lot of fun doing it, but I think gymnastics found me
01:23I
01:31Can say I've missed a prom, but I've been to three world championships
01:34I
01:47Think one of my greatest strengths as a competitor is whenever I compete
01:52I love to have fun, and I think that's what helps me and sets me apart
02:04Beginning of the year my mom would always make me write down goals on a piece of paper and take it to her
02:10And so that's kind of how I always like was very well driven because I always had the next goal in mind
02:16The Biles is a double-a half out and it's called the Biles because I was the first person to do it in a World Cup event
02:46The Olympic experience for me just kept getting better and better like we won team gold and then we brought home a couple more medals
02:53And then I got to meet Zach, and then I got to carry the flag, and it was just a huge honor
03:16I
03:32It's never held me back through anything, and I've never let it hold me back
03:40It's almost more normalized now going to therapy and having anxiety
03:43And I think being in the public eye almost a lot of us have it
03:55I was waiting for you to smile at some of the compliments you didn't
04:00When you go to Meadows
04:02The civil and criminal case against the ex-Michigan State Gymnastics dr.
04:06Larry Nassar continues to grow already more than 100 accusers have come forward alleging sexual abuse
04:44I
04:51It's hard coming here for an organization and
04:55Having had them failed us so many times and we we had one gold
04:59We've done everything that they asked us for even when we didn't want to and they couldn't do one damn job
05:05You had one job. You literally had one job, and you couldn't protect us
05:13I
05:37Was mad I was annoyed
05:38I was upset because I felt like I had just been so prepared never in my life
05:44Have I been that prepared so I felt like?
05:47Just it sucked for me personally
05:50I
06:06Just feel like everything that happened I had to come back to the sport to be a voice to have change
06:13Happen because I feel like if there weren't a remaining survivor in the sport. They would have just brushed it to the side
06:19You