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"I have to focus on my mental health." Simone Biles, the US Olympic star, explained why she withdrew this Tuesday from the women's gymnastics team final at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, which the Russians won. The four-time gold medalist left the arena after the jumping event, which dealt a severe blow to the aspirations of the American team. Up to that point, she had reached 13,766 points, the lowest rating of her personal best in an Olympics. "After the performance I did, I just didn't want to go on," said Biles, who confirmed that she was not physically injured. "I have to focus on my mental health. I just think that mental health is more important in sports right now. We have to protect our minds and our bodies, and not just go out and do what the world wants us to do," he continued . "I don't trust myself that much anymore. Maybe I'm getting old. There were a couple of days when everyone tweets you and you feel the weight of the world," explained the 24-year-old gymnast. He said that like anyone, sometimes you "just have to take a step back" when you don't feel confident about achieving the goal. "I didn't want to go out and do something stupid and hurt myself. I feel like a lot of athletes who have spoken about it [about mental health] have really helped (…) It's very important, it's the Olympics, but at the end of the day we don't want that get us out of there on a stretcher. " In May, Japanese tennis player Naomi Osaka withdrew from the Roland Garros tournament considering that the competition was affecting her mental health, a measure publicly endorsed by athletes from other disciplines. Biles is the most successful American gymnast of all time and the winner of four gold medals and one bronze at Rio 2016. She has not yet ruled out her participation in the 2020 Tokyo gymnastics individual competitions. "Let's see Thursday," she said "We will take it day by day and see what happens." https://www.bbc.com/mundo/deportes-57990411

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British diver Tom Daley had to compete in four Olympic Games and prepare for more than half of his life in order to win the gold medal. Considered a child prodigy - he competed in Beijing 2008 when he was just 14 years old - he had not been able to keep the gold medal, despite great presentations such as the one he made in the London 2012 and Rio 2016 Olympics, where he won the bronze in the platform of 10 individual meters and 10 synchronized meters respectively. But this Monday was different. In an impeccable presentation with his partner Matty Lee, he achieved the gold medal this time on the synchronized 10-meter platform. Daley and Lee managed to overcome by just over one point the Chinese couple made up of Cao Yian and Chen Aisen, who are the current world champions. It was a very emotional moment. Daley, who is now 27, told the BBC: "I honestly still can't believe what is happening." "At that moment, when they were about to say that we were Olympic champions, I left. I was crying." A golden tour Daley had become, since his early debut in Beijing 2008, a character in Olympic sport. Britain was very sorry that in 2011, a year before the London Olympics, his father died. Daley then said in an interview that he hoped to one day be "half the father my father was to me," and his Olympic gold came in the first jousts since he became Robbie's father in 2018. "I have been doing this for two decades, so I am very happy to have this medal around my neck," he said. For the past several years there had been speculation whether Daley would have the level to compete in one more Olympics after Rio 2016, especially after he traded Daniel Goodfellow for Matty Lee as his test partner in 2018. "A lot of people had written me off, but I'm in top shape and with Matty's support, we've had that unstoppable mentality this year and it's the first time I've been able to think like that. "I can't believe what's going on. I didn't think he would get here in the first place." Olímpicos de Tokio: Tom Daley, el niño prodigio de los clavados que logró la medalla de oro en sus cuartos Juegos - BBC News Mundo

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