THE PRICE OF PERFECTION
Aug 06, 2021
4 minutes
COMPILED BY DENNIS CAVERNELIS
EVEN in a tournament that delivers plenty of shocks and upsets, this was quite something. The best gymnast of all time, a pint-sized powerhouse of a woman who could perform feats like no other, was pulling out.
No, she wasn’t sick. No, she hadn’t injured herself. The pressure had simply become too much. And Simone Biles found herself making headlines not for the sheer incredulity of what she can do but because she simply couldn’t go on any longer.
The 24-year-old star of Team USA had seemed off from the start. She wobbled a
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