Simone BilesThe calf injury was more serious than what she had suffered.
Yet an Olympic gold medal winning coach Cecil Landy She explained that she was feeling a “slight pain” in her calf during the Paris 2024 Games, a trailer for the upcoming second part of the game. Simone Biles: Rise The documentary reveals that it was even more painful behind the scenes.
In one clip, Simone frantically tells her trainer: “My leg or something got pulled along the way.”
Later, a fellow gymnast Aly Raisman It was detailed in a confessional interview about how bad the pain was for Simone and why she persevered.
“I asked, ‘How did you do that when you were in so much pain?’” Ali said. “I can’t have people tell me I quit again,” she said.
Despite the injury, Simone managed to collect four medals during the competition in Paris, including three gold and one silver. While the trailer also showed that the 27-year-old felt she had something to prove after withdrawing from Tokyo 2020 due to suffering a sprain, she came prepared.